Well the weekend has come and gone, but I’m sad to see it go. I spent the weekend constantly on the go, but in the best possible way. I spent it with family and friends having a great time. Sunday was my 6 month-iversary with Keith, and Monday was my birthday. Saturday was spent with different friends just relaxing and having fun, but Sunday was reserved for Keith and I to be together on the special day, and he even took off work Monday so he could be with me on my birthday in a way that nobody else ever really has. It was wonderful in every way it could have been.
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Apr
20
2009
 
Where does the time go?Posted by Dean in Life, Work, tags: American Economy, Job SearchI can’t believe that it’s been almost two months since I last sat down to write. When I first started this blog I didn’t foresee a time when weekly updates wouldn’t be the norm, but lately I’ve felt like I barely have time to get things done, let alone to sit down and babble about whatever’s on my mind. It’s funny in a not-so-funny way, but ever since I lost my job and gained an extra 40 hours a week, I seem to have less time to get things done than before. Did I somehow actually lose time? Or has more just come up to fill in the gaps? Or have I just lost the will to do anything but watch the hands on the clock spend ’round and ’round? Things have been crazy the past couple months. When I started this blog, I told myself I’d be updating all the time, but as you can see by the date of my last entry, this hasn’t worked out too well as of late. Allow me to explain. I was laid off from my job of almost 3 years at the end of December, I’m under pressure at school to maintain an A average in a class where a C is something to be prayed for, my car has required almost $1000 in repairs, and I’ve done it all without the friend I thought I’d always have at my side. The only bright spot in all this has been Keith. It’s nice to know that even when we both have horrible days, we’re always there for each other at the end of it all to sit with and talk and just enjoy the company. I don’t know how I got by without him in the past. Life has been a little crazy lately. I was laid off from my full-time job effective the end of December, and have had no luck in my ongoing search for new employment since then. The only thing keeping me from having a panic attack is the fact that I am on severance pay until the end of February. However, come March I will have no income rolling in and that’s when the real panicking starts. I made the decision recently to begin seriously pursuing beginning my own IT consulting business. I’ve pondered names, domains, clients, and everything the business would entail, and must admit to being very overwhelmed. But it’s something I want to do, so I started the research. I just renewed the lease on my apartment for 6 months with the goal of getting a house come summer if my consulting business is successful. But then I was informed that you can’t qualify for a mortgage if you’re self-employed unless you have 2 years of records showing sustainable income. By summer I’ll be lucky if I have 6 months of records. So I had to choose: do I pursue my own consulting business and begin doing what I’ve wanted to do all along, or do I try harder to re-enter Corporate America and thus qualify for a mortgage later this year? I can’t do both. So which do I sacrifice, and which do I pursue? It’s that time of year again. December has turned over into January, and a new year is on the rise. It’s refreshing yet frightening. One can never tell what the new year will hold, but I am going to try to remain optimistic. Then again, that’s cutting into my so-to-say “resolutions” that I’ve laid out for myself. Each year I set some down for myself, and each year I forget all about them before February. I suppose that’s typical. That’s why this year I don’t want to make them strict and specific. Just ideals that I want to hold myself to. |
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