Trash cans as far as the eye can see.

I wonder where I would be right now if I hadn’t decided to do something different with my life. If we looked at the question from a literal sense I would be emptying Twyla Brandsma’s garbage right now then I would move on to Wendy Ellsworth’s and it would continue like that for hours. My life was the same routine every day. No variation whatsoever I lived from paycheck to paycheck. There were no goals. There were no rewards. Nothing worthwhile could ever happen to me. The greatest thing that could happen to me if I planned on staying there would be to be made supervisor. I would have gotten a dollar raise and then a quarter raise every year after that. There would be no hopes of becoming manager… ever.
So at that point in my life I would have been making 9.25 an hour. Not too shabby but not befitting either. Ten years down the line I would rake in a paltry 11.75 and I would be doing the same job in ten years that I was doing then. No growth, no progress and no deviation from the norm. I could have made ends meet on that wage but I would have steadily died inside knowing how tedious my work is.
If I hadn’t decided to change my life I would know exactly where I would be for the next twenty years of my life. I would know what I would be doing at any given moment. Which is such a horrible feeling. Now I have no idea where I’ll be in four years but I love it. Not knowing what’s on the horizon can be a scary feeling but knowing exactly what’s on the other side of every mountain is an even scarier feeling.