Isn’t the Light OK?

I men­tioned in my last post how a long week­end at camp helped to clear my head a bit. One of the things it made clear to me is how much I need to get out of my cur­rent job.

Work sucks. Blink-182 knows. I won’t get into too much detail, because, really, it’s bor­ing as hell. I’ve been at the same place for almost 9 years now, doing slight vari­a­tions on the same task, with added respon­si­bil­ity, and no real sense of a “career” in the adult way of think­ing. Iner­tia seems to be try­ing to push me into one, but I’ve never really wanted a “career.” Just some­thing I could do as a job that would allow me enough time and energy left over to spend time with friends and fam­ily and indulge my cre­ative side.

I worked it out the other day, and before taxes, about a third of the money I make here goes to just get­ting me to work and back. It’s been said that money is “life energy,” so it would make sense that I’m so drained after com­ing home. But ulti­mately, this isn’t about money — it’s about san­ity. Even Carla has men­tioned that I seem mis­er­able lately after work.

Thank­fully, I have some prospects semi-locally. Last week I had two inter­views, one of which seems more promis­ing than the other. I won’t jinx them by men­tion­ing any­thing spe­cific right now, but I will say that if you’re the pray­ing or “send­ing good thoughts” type, your prayers/good thoughts/positive ras­ta­man vibra­tions would be wel­come over the com­ing weeks.

Now Play­ing: “Wouldn’t Mama Be Proud?” by Elliott Smith

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