Career changing into Full Time Facilitation!

Hi folks,

I'll start off with a lovely sob story; I was let go from a leadership position in a software startup company in Aug last year. Totally had seen it coming, and I was capital M-iserable in the role. Previously i'd been leading software functions and just got sick of the hyper political manuvering. So in my time after I'd thought about what I really enjoyed doing no matter, as I didn't want to climb that ladder again to experience the same level of misery and it stood out; I enjoyed helming workshops. My early days I'd been a trainer but the travel burnt me out, i'd done consulting, design thinking based prototyping and loved the interactions but less the project management and finally I found purpose running workshops at the companies i'd been in leadership to get strategy going.

So I've decided I want to be a workshopper, and help move the room wherever possible. My catch is that with a young family, I have massage my network to a point that a full-time facilitation (Freelance), is strong enough to make good "oh god i'm saving money for my kid to spend" bank. Where I am now is about to accept a job that will give me a much needed capital platform, while I grow.

Here i stand in this wonderful forum and can't wait to learn about how you've all achieved the goal of doing this grand job full-time.

Mike (from Tasmania, but living in Brooklyn).

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