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October 12, 2018 By Sara Dunn · Leave a Comment

Things I’m Afraid to Tell You #2: I Love My Work

All right, who’s ready?  It’s time for Things I’m Afraid to Tell You #2.

I’m feeling a little energized since you were all oh so kind about my last scary thing.  So here we go.

The second thing I’ve been afraid to tell you is that I really love my work.  Like a lot.

I know that sounds like a strange thing to hold back, but I haven’t wanted to seem way over-the-top enthusiastic.

First of all, it would be easy to dismiss like “Well, we’re all excited about a new venture when it starts.  It’ll wear off.”

I thought the same thing myself, so I wanted to be cautious that my love for SEO for the wedding industry might just be in a honeymoon phase.  I kept quiet and kept doing the work and kept loving it.

Secondly, I think overenthusiasm about work can come off as really fake.  I think we’ve all seen people online trying to sell something who are all “I LOVE MY LIFE AND YOU CAN TOO (if you buy my thing).”

I don’t want to sound like that.  But I do really love my work. And I have nothing to sell, so I don’t have a reason to lie to you.

The honest truth is that over the last year, there have been several moments that I was working on wedding industry websites that I just couldn’t believe people are paying me to do it.

One of those moments was just last week when I was working on a website for a wedding planner that I absolutely never, ever thought I’d get to work for—As in, I’ve seen her plan weddings on TV and am a full-on heart eyes ???? fan.  I needed to look through her portfolio of work to select images for a new services page I was optimizing. I was having such a good time that I got lost in the work and lost track of time.

I had a flashback to about eight years ago when I started to plan my own wedding, which I loved doing.  I would spend hours browsing through wedding websites, looking at images, reading stories. I happily did this for days, and now I get paid to do it as a job.  To me, it feels kind of crazy.

Even though I was afraid to tell you at the beginning how much I was loving the work, that feeling hasn’t gone away.  So I want you to know that’s possible and it’s for real. And you don’t even have to buy my thing 😉

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