#WeSeeYou: Woman Leaves Six-Figure Salary To Live Stress-Free

#WeSeeYou is BlackDoctor.org’s series that seeks to highlight and feature those people who are doing something incredible for their health and the health of others. This is our way of shining light on them. Today, we honor Sonia.

Sonia Thompson was one of those sisters that when you looked at her, you just knew that she had it all: job, money, home, credit, freedom, etc.

Working in marketing, she was earning over $200,000 a year, living alone in a three-bedroom townhouse outside of Philadelphia. Things were going pretty good for Sonia.

“I had this job that I loved — for a while — I had a house, I had all the things people say you should have,” she remembers. “I felt like I was living the American Dream.”

But there was something underneath it all that was tugging at Sonia.

“I was in my early 30s and I had this feeling that there had to be more,” Thompson remembered. “It was great when I was acquiring the things, holding this high-powered job, but there was an emptiness there. I thought there had to be more than these physical things and this money. There has to be more to life than getting a mortgage and going to work every day to pay it off.”

The revelation that there was something else out there, kept growing and growing on Sonia. In the first of her nine years working she had realized that the corporate life wasn’t for her. Even as her salary rose over the years, she knew she would have to leave and do something different. So instead of blowing all her hard earned money on “things”, she put her extra money into savings for that “one day.”