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I am at work.
I am not at the movies.
I'm not watching a new DVD.
I'm not at a play, or the museum, or out shopping.
I am at work.
I do this job because it pays nicely, and keeps the bills in check. And, having my days off to do some of those things was nice, and will be again after my day contract ends.
But, I'll do them alone, because nobody is available during the day. Not my lovely wife, not my kidlets, not any of you who were smart and got daytime jobs. I gave up games nights, gaming, reading books to the kids, cooking nice meals with da wife or munchkin, and all because....
...well, this job pays better.
And, in the current market, you take what you can find, when you can find it. Still, I'm actually considering, for the first time, moving to where other work, daytime work, is. Possibilities are Denver/Colorado Springs, Reston, San Diego, Athens, and St. Louis. I've also got a feeler out in Jacksonville, but that job opens so often I wonder about the stress.
I may move, and unseat my family and destroy my sanity (I hate change), because I don't want to miss watching my kids grow up, and I like falling alseep with my wife and not wandering in to a quiet house, only to wake up and find she's already gone to work.
Do you know what the impetus for this change is?
I went shopping.
I was at Harry's Farmer's Market at 2pm on Thursday, when I saw a couple shopping together. I wondered what they did, that they could be out shopping mid-day, mid-week, at the same time. Then it hit me.
They made the time for it to happen.
That's probably all they had to do. And, I'm not. I'm doing all I can to provide for my family, and not enough being a part of it. That will change.
I almost typed "that must change", but it's not a matter of being a potential future, but being an actual one.
Resume blitz, tomorrow morning. I have had enough.
I am not at the movies.
I'm not watching a new DVD.
I'm not at a play, or the museum, or out shopping.
I am at work.
I do this job because it pays nicely, and keeps the bills in check. And, having my days off to do some of those things was nice, and will be again after my day contract ends.
But, I'll do them alone, because nobody is available during the day. Not my lovely wife, not my kidlets, not any of you who were smart and got daytime jobs. I gave up games nights, gaming, reading books to the kids, cooking nice meals with da wife or munchkin, and all because....
...well, this job pays better.
And, in the current market, you take what you can find, when you can find it. Still, I'm actually considering, for the first time, moving to where other work, daytime work, is. Possibilities are Denver/Colorado Springs, Reston, San Diego, Athens, and St. Louis. I've also got a feeler out in Jacksonville, but that job opens so often I wonder about the stress.
I may move, and unseat my family and destroy my sanity (I hate change), because I don't want to miss watching my kids grow up, and I like falling alseep with my wife and not wandering in to a quiet house, only to wake up and find she's already gone to work.
Do you know what the impetus for this change is?
I went shopping.
I was at Harry's Farmer's Market at 2pm on Thursday, when I saw a couple shopping together. I wondered what they did, that they could be out shopping mid-day, mid-week, at the same time. Then it hit me.
They made the time for it to happen.
That's probably all they had to do. And, I'm not. I'm doing all I can to provide for my family, and not enough being a part of it. That will change.
I almost typed "that must change", but it's not a matter of being a potential future, but being an actual one.
Resume blitz, tomorrow morning. I have had enough.
