Should have quit last March, as per the original plan
I still don't have a plan as far as work goes.
They've made it very clear that they want to keep me, and that there's really nothing out of the question: I can take a raise, I can train for a new job within the company, I can extricate myself from the current reporting structure; any incentive within reason is mine for the taking.
And I don't want any of it. Really, I don't want it to BE; the entire notion of selling my time and attention to other people feels like a waste of life. How do you explain that to a professional suit-wearer who's fully invested in that life? Moreover, how am I to come to grips with that reality? It's clearly not going to vanish if I will it to.
I think I made an error in giving them as much notice as I did - they didn't take it seriously and they think I'm after something. I've explained that what I really want is more time off than they can reasonably give me - 4 to 5 months, during which I intend to think hard upon what's next - change in career, school, become a hobo, whatever. (Not to mention attempt some kind of cottage industry)
Eh, maybe it'll all be moot when Yellowstone erupts, immediately incinerating many of us then starving off a few billion more over the next decade or so. Thanks to kohntarkosz for the uneasy sleep, btw...
Also: thanks to ludickid for this, which pretty much descibes my current attitude towards work
They've made it very clear that they want to keep me, and that there's really nothing out of the question: I can take a raise, I can train for a new job within the company, I can extricate myself from the current reporting structure; any incentive within reason is mine for the taking.
And I don't want any of it. Really, I don't want it to BE; the entire notion of selling my time and attention to other people feels like a waste of life. How do you explain that to a professional suit-wearer who's fully invested in that life? Moreover, how am I to come to grips with that reality? It's clearly not going to vanish if I will it to.
I think I made an error in giving them as much notice as I did - they didn't take it seriously and they think I'm after something. I've explained that what I really want is more time off than they can reasonably give me - 4 to 5 months, during which I intend to think hard upon what's next - change in career, school, become a hobo, whatever. (Not to mention attempt some kind of cottage industry)
Eh, maybe it'll all be moot when Yellowstone erupts, immediately incinerating many of us then starving off a few billion more over the next decade or so. Thanks to kohntarkosz for the uneasy sleep, btw...
Also: thanks to ludickid for this, which pretty much descibes my current attitude towards work