So my journey began on Saturday January 8th 2011. The day that I landed in Charleston, South Carolina. This is the day that I began the next and most recent chapter in my life.
Back in Colorado nothing seemed to be going for me. Due to a down turn in the economy I was having trouble finding a job and keeping it longer than about 6 months. Well when I, along side my best friend Deanna, was laid of from one of the biggest home builders in America decided to look at the bigger picture. Well we decided that maybe Colorado didn't have to opportunities that we were looking for. Since I was finishing school at the end of the year and the lease on our apartment was up at the same time too, nothing was keeping us in Colorado. So we decided to explore our options else where. Deanna ended up landing a job for one of the biggest cabinet manufacturers in the country and was going to be moving to Indiana. I on the other hand still wasn't quite sure where I was going to end up. I just knew that I didn't want to stay in Colorado. I felt the job market for my career path was overly saturated and I wouldn't be able to do what I really wanted to do which is work with the sports community as a Massage Therapist.
I traveled to Charleston, South Carolina in December to visit my brother and his family and thought in the mean time I would look for jobs out there and see if I was able to find any decent opportunities. At the same time thinking that I was either going to find a job there or if nothing panned out I would move to Indiana with Deanna and start a new life there. I applied for several jobs and then returned to Colorado for the holidays.
With no prospects for myself on January 2nd, Deanna, her boyfriend John, and I all set out on a 3 day road trip headed to Jasper, Indiana. We left Denver and one the first night stopped in Kansas City, the second day we traveled to St. Louis, and on our third day we reached Jasper. While Deanna was getting things all worked out for her new apartment I received several phone calls from potential employers.
One was for a Spa in Evansville, Indiana which is about 45 minutes from where Deanna would be living in Indiana. The second was for a Medical facility in Charleston and the Third was for a Therapeutic Massage Center in Charleston as well. The medical facility in Charleston wasn't willing to do a phone interview, and I wasn't able to just up and fly there without a job offer. I ended up setting up an interview with the Spa in Evansville, but upon arrival realized that the atmosphere wasn't quite what I was looking for. The owner of Center for Therapeutic Massage in Charleston contacted me and we ended up doing several phone interviews while I was in Indiana. I had plans to fly home to Denver on Saturday January 8th, so I could tie up some lose ends and attend my graduation ceremony from my massage school at the end of the month. But I was not planning on staying in Denver. Well upon interviewing over the phone, Alli the owner ended up offering my a job with her company and wondered when I might be able to get to Charleston to start. I told her that I could actually change my plane ticket from Denver to Charleston and hopefully start the very next week.
So that was it the decision that brought me here to Charleston South Carolina to begin the next Chapter in my life.
