{"id":5214,"date":"2013-06-05T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=5214"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:32:15","slug":"a-professional-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/a-professional-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"A professional milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It may or may not be common knowledge that, under my real name, I run B10 Mediaworx<\/a>, an author services \/ digital formatting company, which I\u2019ve been doing for the past \u2026 mmm \u2026 four years. I think. Anyway, before that, I was an at-home medical transcriptionist for six years. I haven\u2019t worked out of doors<\/a> in ten years.<\/p>\n

Well, doing this with babies\/toddlers isn\u2019t easy, let me tell you, but once they started going to school, my work life got a lot more productive. And it was so blessedly QUIET. I love(d) working at home. Free and breezy. But a couple of years ago, I found I had a lot more work to do AND I was slacking on the internet during the quiet time. So I started going to the UMKC library on Sundays to work, because they\u2019re open until 11:00pm. AND it was a hassle getting a password for the internet, which I declined to do, because I didn\u2019t WANT to be on the internet. One problem: They aren\u2019t open every Sunday. Well, okay, I could work around that.<\/p>\n

Until I couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

In November, we found out my husband\u2019s employer was closing its Kansas City offices and sending its employees home to telecommute. Talk about a life change. And I do not do well with change. Of any sort. Even good ones. (Don\u2019t come near me for two weeks after I\u2019ve moved into a new house. Just don\u2019t.)<\/p>\n

\"AFor reasons I don\u2019t know, Sunday, I was cruising Craigslist for office space. I mean, that\u2019s not what I started out looking for. But I found this awesome deal for a little hole-in-the-wall above an old store in an old section of Liberty, Missouri. And it happens to be kitty-corner to the perfect bookstore<\/a>. (Which is still perfect and I see a whole lot of other people are just discovering the concept and thinking they were original. Heh.) I emailed, as per protocol, but heard nothing. My husband had Monday off and said, \u201cWell, why don\u2019t we go up there and see what we can see?\u201d Well, why not, indeed. I took my checkbook, just in case.<\/p>\n

An hour later, I had an office. 140 ft2 of rehabbed historical building on Liberty Square, across from the courthouse, down the street from Jesse James Bank Museum<\/a>, with a door and a lock and, most importantly, NO BOSS.<\/p>\n

Today, I started moving in.<\/p>\n

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And I am ridiculously giddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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