Life and feelings rant: I just wrapped the most intense three consecutive work weeks I’ve had in a long, long while. I got a lot accomplished, but I’m def ready to pass out now lol.

It’s so strange when I reflect on my life. Just a few years ago, I was so singularly focused on just one thing: my union organizing career. Now that I’ve taken a year-long break from union organizing, my life has become much, much more diverse — and I’m forever grateful to the labor movement to which I owe much of my access to my current adventures. It’s just… so much has changed in the last year or two.

I don’t know that sustaining both the variety and intensity of my current work life is sustainable in the long run. I mean, doing all my jobs (union comms, political media business, lighting technician for others’ films, etc.) is almost certainly not sustainable. But this journey I’m on has been absolutely necessary for me to discover who I am outside of union organizing. I was an external union organizer (helping non-union workers form unions) for 10 years straight: from ages 19-29. Before my current adventures, I’d literally known nothing else as an adult.

I just wrapped up this three-week sprint by training young interns at the Sacramento Central Labor Council on the fundamentals of union organizing conversations. That felt so… incredibly, incredibly warm. It brought back a deep feeling of joy about organizing that I’d lost by the end of my union organizing career.

I don’t know what the future holds for me professionally. It’s all open and feels incredibly unknown to me. But I feel that what I’m doing now is absolutely necessary and feels spiritually ok. It feels right. I’m growing.