When and what was your last great initiative?

Last Friday. I turned in my resignation letter.

Plans, @syz ?

How do you feel about that?

Best of luck @syz

2 weeks ago Weds. when I moved one county over to seek new work and help on my friends ranch after spending 23 years in my old zone. Not sure if I will be staying here yet, long term, but…it’s a big shift right now.

I initiated getting the hell out of my marriage. It had been unbearable hell and was only going to continue getting worse or kill me from stress and stifled anger in the process.

New project? How about a video for a presentation in which I’m a writer, director, editor and actress?

Building a life after my Ex left (and no, it wasn’t @zenvelo.) I didn’t have a choice about being left but I had the choice of whether to wither or thrive.

6–7 years ago, I started our auction business. From calling the realtor and having her call the owner of the building to see if he would sell, to designing the logo, to creating a website. All while working in a factory, 40–70 hours a week, 12 days on, 2 days off.

Building up an education curriculum to teach students at the jail, who had no access to the internet outside of the classroom. And even in the classroom they could only access our teaching site.
It was my life’s work and I worked really, really hard at it. It was an ongoing thing quest.

For example, In addition to creating hard copy, homework files that they could take back to work on in their cell, I was building a facsimile of Wikipedia, for use in the classroom, that used EXCEL and contained hyperlinks sto other Excel documents within the article. If they ever asked a question about anything, and I didn’t already have it in the data base, I’d put it there. I had, probably, 1000 entries when I got sick and lost my job.
After that, the teacher who went in after me, in cahoots with my boss, both of whom were completely computer illiterate, completely dismantled everything, everything I had done because they didn’t see any need for it.

The greatest one ever (for me); four years ago I initiated the transition process, after many years waiting.

I quit my old job 5 years ago and started my own engineering consulting business. I hit a few small jobs out of the park and was given a particularly difficult problem to solve by a very large organization. After successfully delivering on the 6 month project, they started me on a huge assignment 18 months ago.
Now I have 5 engineers, an office manager, an accountant, an office and lab, and 10x the stress I had when I was an employee.
But the money is quite good. It will all be worth it – if I survive.

Hey! I need a job, @LuckyGuy!

Not sure if this counts. Our 88 year old mother developed an infection back in April. The brother and sister asked if I could go stay with her until healed. What was expected to be a two-week trip turned into over three months. While the infection was finally conquered, she was still going downhill. She died a month later.

She was living in an assisted living facility, but we still had her house. It took a tremendous amount of coordination with the staff, hospice, funeral home, the church, the family, the real estate agent, movers, etc. On top of all of that, I had only been back home for two weeks after spending five months in England.

It all worked out with the help of ‘a village’. Gee, that was stressful though.

@ibstubro Where were you when I needed you?
@Dutchess_III Your story makes me very sad. Sending you a PM.

@Dutchess_III I need someone experienced with embedded systems at least 10x faster than a PSOC5LP or equivalent and ultra low offset analog devices operating in the GHz region.

You should have hollered, @Pied_Pfeffer. While we’re based in the Midwest, we have moved an estate from Albuquerque NM. one from Indiana and are currently in the running for an estate in Connecticut.

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Leaving my job and coming to live here for a month.

(Seriously, only one “GA”?) and then you wonder why noobies don’t stick around? It’s because they don’t get their bells, whistles OR even a GA for their time and effort in thinking them up – they are used to games that give them all kinds of rewards and prizes…. I don’t care about the lurve, of course, it just would be nice if all of the people above would GQ their friends here at least, and GA the asker – who is working hard for y’all. This was my 2000th question btw. Just saying.)

I got hip to nonduality and made a trip to Portugal to attend a silent retreat held by a guru (and his very capable staff). Life started to flow for me after I came to some understanding and before I attended the retreat, but I have found crazy flow since. I went from pretty intense anxiety and depression to a pretty reliable sense of bliss and tranquility in a year’s time.

@zenzen GA or GQ? I gave you both :)

Earlier this year I flew many thousands of miles to meet someone special and it seems to be working out. It wasn’t so much a great initiative as a step by step process where each step followed inevitably from the one before. I never thought of this as a great initiative but perhaps it was.