Soul Searching

So I think this may be a long post. So hang on to your hats? Lets see....first off I want to say that I love my family and friends they are awesome. Lately, I've been doing some really hard thinking about what I want to do with my life. Since I was about 5 I've been around computers. I remember my dad bringing home our first computer a packard bell computer. It was super awesome. There weren't many games to play on it, but I really enjoyed the technology. Time past and I played with every computer we had until, one year for my birthday, my dad got me my first very own desktop computer, it was the greatest, pretty fast, lots of space, etc. at the time. It was excellent. I couldn't have asked for anything better. Then I moved on. I got a job working at Teleperformance doing providing technical support for a project called Clearwire. "We're Clearwire, we make it simple, my name is Alex, may i have the phone number associated with your account please", talk about stupid. I hated the job. BUT it did teach me good support skills,  and I WAS working with computers....so how bad could it be right? Wrong.... Crap job. I then got a job later on working with Roundy Apparel, doing IT Manager stuff. That was an extreme learning experience. Phones, Computers, Servers, Active Directory, Antivirus Servers, DHCP, Domain Controllers, etc. Wonderful stuff. Now I work for a local credit union. Mountain America Credit Union, Alex Lutz - PC Technician. This has got to be one of the best jobs I've ever had. I love this place. When I was hired, they raised the minimum wage for my position, so my boss, being the funny guy he is called me into his office and said "Hey dude, I've got to tell you something" "We can't pay you what we said we would pay you" at first, I got worried I, I figured great, what a great start, already loosing money, the wife is going to love this. NOPE. He said "BUT I can pay you more" .... silly. I work with a lot of the company's employees, I rarely help the members of the credit union directly. However, I would assume that it gets there at some point by helping co-workers. I've explained this to a few people that I've talked to. First off, let me say that I don't dislike my job. I LOVE my job to death. My job is such an amazing blessing. I would never want to leave at this point in time. However, like i stated above, I've been thinking of how far my helping really goes...yeah the employees get the working computer and feel good and go on working until something happens again. But, I LOVE helping people. I really really really love helping people and in my honest opinion, that (working on computers) only goes so far... I've been thinking and I feel that I may want to be a Life Coach...Business Coach...ETC. I hear people from a radio show I listen to "Dave Ramsey"'s radio show, and I hear people call in and say "Dave, my family and I are in $200,000 in debt and only make 50,000 annually" I can hear the pain in their voice and feel their sorrow. I hear the heartache of a mother not being able to feed a child because the house payment is behind. I can hear the eagerness needed and hope needed,  from a husband so upset with his wife's overspending he's thinking of divorce and wants to save his marriage and not let money problems ruin his life. This kind of thing IRKS me to my very core. I can feel it in my heart. I then hear the calls where a small family calls in and says "Dave! We've paid off $100,000 in debt while making $25,000 annually." "WE'RE DEBT FREE!" - I think of the sacrifice these people had to have made and how their voices change dramatically to an energetic, free, and fresh voice. I can feel the happiness in their voices. I WANT to give people that EXACT feeling. A feeling of power, a feeling of hope, a feeling of prosperity, a sense of who they are, an understanding open mind, a feeling of being free from pain and suffering. I want to affect people and have the feeling that comes with giving people a sense of accomplishment and mastery. So, with that said. I've joined an online community created by an author of 2 great books. "No More Mondays" and "48 Days to the work you love" - Dan Miller. I would  recommend you reading these if you're sick of where you are in the workplace, OR if you're just looking for more out of your current position. Anyways, 48days.net is the website and I'm setting up a networking group and working on learning more and experiencing more so that I can eventually down the road move into a coaching business. Having clients. Having success. Helping people. Doing what I feel I've been put on this earth to do. Anyways, I just thought I would share that with you. Thought you might find it interesting or something i dont know. You're more than welcome to check out that website. 48days.net its a great place. Its full of entreprenuers, coaches, business managers, business owners, leaders, employees, and unemployed people. All of them are working towards helping each other out. Its an amazing place. With starting down the path of coaching and entreprenuership,  I've started to have less time to "play" and more time to educate myself. I love it! (Not to say I've given up playing altogether). Education is awesome. I love it. I don't plan on going to college because, a coaching profession - in my opinion is really based on experience rather than general knowledge. I've been there, tried that, and couldn't stand having the teacher tell me to learn my abc's. When asked why, all she could say was "Because I said so" and I told her that's stupid and to leave me alone so I could finish drawing my cars(from a book - feel the exact same)....so on that note. I think I need to keep reading. I'll add more later. Just some thoughts on my life.