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Becoming Heather Untethered:
Why I’m Quitting My Job in 1,800 Days I’m a sober, single mom by choice, working full time as a payroll coordinator with a mortgage and a teenager. I’ve been stable at the same position for almost 12 years. I genuinely like my co-workers. I enjoy my job and I’m good at it. But I’m not staying. In exactly 1,800 days, I’m quitting. For Christmas a few years back, I received a bag my mom gave me that I can’t look at without tearing up. It says: "Heather—she believed she could,
heathre04
May 68 min read
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