State of the Pat Address
How I've been living.

The job is ending soon. As I've said before, I'm looking for a new job. However, I'm also quitting my current job without a new one lined up. Some may consider that foolhardy, I consider it good times. Its also the only reason I will finally get a new job. I'm stuck where I am, its time to get out.

I'm going on vacation for the month of March, to Japan! A week in Tokyo, a week in Okinawa and two weeks travelling the southern half of mainland Japan. I am really, really looking forward to it. Its the first vacation I've taken since last April when I almost got fired. So I'm long overdue. And I could probably just take a long vacation and go back to being a consultant, but I'm rather tired of hating myself. It gets old.

I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop really, and I'm wondering if it will. I mean, yes, I am soon going to have no income. I don't have a girlfriend or any prospects on that beat at all. But, for some reason, I'm really happy. The other shoe always drops. Usually right on my face. I just have no idea what its going to be. The last couple of times, I had an idea. The girl stood me up, or the new project was WORSE then the old project, or what have you. But now? Right now I have like 4-6 months of living expenses saved up. So I can wait for a job I actually want. As opposed to settling for whatever job will have me.

Maybe that's been why I'm always nervous about "the other shoe." Its usually not a concious choice for me to do something. Be it a girl, a job or anything really. It usually whatever will have me. Maybe this new viewpoint that I'm going to go parade around foreign lands will start getting me to a better place. Maybe I'll end up a derelict living in a cardboard box on Wabash. But it should, at least, be interesting.
- posted by Pat @ 2:41 PM