I’m currently sitting, like many of you, waiting for the season finale of Game of Thrones to air so I decided I’d write a post to fill you all in on the status of my 10kFriends journey.

Last Monday, I was essentially laid off. I wasn’t officially laid off, but I was officially told that I wouldn’t have a job by the end of the summer. I had two options: 1) continue to work as a sales rep and I would be paid out the commission I earned during that time, or 2) use this time to search for my next job. I chose option 3 – dive full-time into the project that has given me so much happiness and adventure over the past 8 months to see what I can make of it.

Since going full-time, I’ve opened up my schedule to meet with people at all times of the day, which has been both exciting and nerve-racking. I absolutely love the fact that I’ll be meeting more new people more often, but I also wonder if I’ll overbook and become overwhelmed. This week is sort of my test to see what I can do – I currently have 18 meetings scheduled over the next 5 days and I’m pumped for each and every one of them.

Now that my project has been written about by a handful of media sources, I have a few people reaching out to me each day to be a part of it. I anticipated this happening at some point – what I called the “tipping point” – but actually thought it wouldn’t happen until the 1,000s. It happened right around #65. Every time someone reaches out to me, I do my best to find that open hour in my schedule where I can fit them in so I’m interested to see what will happen to my schedule over the next couple of months. I expect I’ll have to start booking meetings weeks out and that it’ll take me a bit longer to respond to people, but I fully intend on meeting with everyone who reaches out to me.

With the expectation of continued demand and an open schedule, my plan is to try this things out full-time for 2-3 months. If I can continue to fund it without going completely bankrupt, I’ll do so. If I need to take a job again to pay for health care etc., I’ll do that instead. I look to the future with excitement though. I feel like being laid off is usually a major life event, but at 25 years old, I couldn’t be happier about the road ahead of me!

I hope to keep you entertained with my project and hope to turn this opportunity into a story worth telling!

Happy GoT finale,

Rob