Hi, I’m Katlyn!
I’ve spent the last 35 years trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. By day I’m a self-proclaimed *corporate baddie* (cries in cubicle) and by night I’m just a girl with roughly 235 ideas and no idea how to accomplish them all.
I’ve worked in the corporate Human Resources space for 13 years, and don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love it. And hate it. But mostly love it? Depends on the day really. I fell into an HR career by pure chance; I took a seasonal admin position and just… never left. As challenging as HR can be (looking at you pandemic, unemployment numbers, lawsuits, payroll issues, disgruntled employees, etc.) it’s so rewarding because I LOVE to help people. I love making life just a little easier, whether that’s answering a question, helping an employee get a promotion, chatting with an employee that’s having a rough day, finding a training course that elevates an employee’s skills. I’m also nosy AF so it’s honestly a great career for me.
Over the last, I don’t know, I’ll say 5 years? Over the last 5ish years I have felt very unfulfilled. Not surprising, since the entire economic and typical business model has shifted since the pandemic (not to mention the growing unease and just absolute trash fire that we call the world). For a while I thought it was just something I had to push through. Grind my way up that corporate ladder, make more money, be more successful, work harder. Ya know, the true ~*American Dream*~
And now here I am! Having a premature midlife crisis because I have no clue who I am or what I want or what I should be doing. Society has a great way of telling us all the steps we need to take to become a functioning adult, but there’s no script for when you finally accomplish becoming a functioning adult. Is this all life is? I find that very hard to believe. If it is, well, I’ve got some serious work to do I guess (cries again in millennial dread).
If any of this resonates with you, I’d love to hear it! Let’s go through this shit together and maybe help each other out. Misery does love company, after all! 🙂
Naturally Katlyn 