Thinking of the next day
I just got home from my last day of work. The field season is finished and the summer crew is dispanding to thier various corners for the NorthWest with no fanfair to speak of. I'll miss some of them, but hope to be in touch and possibly see them in future summers.
Work ended in a mellow way, with a great performance evaluation with an open invitation to ask for letters of recomendation any time from my boss. I enjoyed the work, but at the end the season it's nice to have some down time to myself. The only real difference between this year and all my other field seasons ending is I don't have *anything* lined up for what to do or how to obtain income.
Honestly it's a little scary. I'm hopeful that something will pop up (hopefully something long-term), but I guess we'll see. I've got enough saved from this summer to coast for a couple of months, but after that we'll need something to support ourselves with. There are a lot of things up in the air right now. Like not having any leads on jobs for the winter. Like being about to have reconstructive ACL surgery on my knee for an injury I sustained at work, but not being sure if the workman's comp claim will come through and cover it. Like living in a place where *everyone* I've talked to about finding work in this town responds with some permutation of "wow, that's really hard around here. Best of luck!" And a number of other similar issues. Honestly I don't think they've all really hit me as realities just yet and I can't really think past waking up tomorrow, enjoying lying there until I'm fully rested, getting up, file for unemployment for the first time, and then . . . . my mind blanks out. I guess we'll see soon enough.
Work ended in a mellow way, with a great performance evaluation with an open invitation to ask for letters of recomendation any time from my boss. I enjoyed the work, but at the end the season it's nice to have some down time to myself. The only real difference between this year and all my other field seasons ending is I don't have *anything* lined up for what to do or how to obtain income.
Honestly it's a little scary. I'm hopeful that something will pop up (hopefully something long-term), but I guess we'll see. I've got enough saved from this summer to coast for a couple of months, but after that we'll need something to support ourselves with. There are a lot of things up in the air right now. Like not having any leads on jobs for the winter. Like being about to have reconstructive ACL surgery on my knee for an injury I sustained at work, but not being sure if the workman's comp claim will come through and cover it. Like living in a place where *everyone* I've talked to about finding work in this town responds with some permutation of "wow, that's really hard around here. Best of luck!" And a number of other similar issues. Honestly I don't think they've all really hit me as realities just yet and I can't really think past waking up tomorrow, enjoying lying there until I'm fully rested, getting up, file for unemployment for the first time, and then . . . . my mind blanks out. I guess we'll see soon enough.