With the U.S. Thanksgiving this weekend, I knew I would either have little to no transcription to do this week or be swamped. I was right. A request landed in my inbox on Monday evening asking if I could take a week-long (due Sunday evening) project. Estimated completion time: 32 hours.

I’ve been plugging away at it and am well on my way to having a reasonable amount of work to do both Saturday and Sunday, but there’s no getting way from needing to do five hours of transcription per day this week, every day excluding Monday (when the lateness of the hour in which I got the files means I only did about three hours). So that will be five weekends in a row of work.

I am most certainly not complaining. In fact, I relish this. Yes, there are other things I would like to do with my life, but I pretty much had from September to the end of June to do that! My work schedule is full right now, but I am enjoying what I am doing. During the day I have a variety of tasks that challenge me in ways that are allowing me to discover I have strengths I was sure escaped me. Mornings and evenings, I get work for myself in my PJs if I so choose, proud in the knowledge that I have finally built a viable business for myself in the field I discovered is best suited to my lifestyle and abilities. Besides exhaustion, I currently feel an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment.

Let me share, once again, this wonderful quote that beautifully illustrates my philosophy:

The universe puts us into places where we can learn. They are never easy places, but they are right. Wherever we are is the right place and the right time. The pain that sometimes comes is part of the process of constantly being born.