Planning, Plans, and People who do/do not plan.
I may be leaving Philadelphia later than I've been planning. I finally got around to _actually_ talking with Derek about the logistics, and he, in his rationality, points out that I should probably have more of a plan if we want to make this happen in a positive, relatively unstressful fashion. Which makes me realize that there are many factors/scenarios that I thought I'd considered but, in reality, I haven't given them any solid thought. For instance: what if I show up and Derek is in the super-busiest part of the year (because I didn't really take that into account) and I don't have enough job leads or grad school leads and don't have a structure to my day so I can't figure out What To Do and don't really know anyone else in Ann Arbor and don't have a good way of getting around and I'm depressed and totally stressed out and stressing out Derek who can do nothing for me because he's too busy. Wheh.
A worst-case scenario, but all off the elements are there to make it happen. So, yes, it probably makes more sense to work my arrival into Derek's schedule at least a little better and put out some legitimate job feelers for my arrival in Michigan (ideally, set up some interviews for when I arrive), and explicitely plan that I will do my darndest to obtain acceptable employment within...say 6 weeks... but will go home to my law office in philadelphia if it doesn't work out.
Thinking about these things now, I realize that I'd just sort of barfed onto the future and prayed that everything will work out well. In reality, this is neither a positive approach nor a necessary one, and I've gotta stop doing it that way right away. It's not a comforting realization.
A worst-case scenario, but all off the elements are there to make it happen. So, yes, it probably makes more sense to work my arrival into Derek's schedule at least a little better and put out some legitimate job feelers for my arrival in Michigan (ideally, set up some interviews for when I arrive), and explicitely plan that I will do my darndest to obtain acceptable employment within...say 6 weeks... but will go home to my law office in philadelphia if it doesn't work out.
Thinking about these things now, I realize that I'd just sort of barfed onto the future and prayed that everything will work out well. In reality, this is neither a positive approach nor a necessary one, and I've gotta stop doing it that way right away. It's not a comforting realization.