Options:
It's nice to have them.
(Unlike an over-developed sense of ethics, which can lead to one second-guessing one's self to the point of inaction.)
I have to let my re-enlistment team know what I want to do in the next 24 hours.
I have to decide between a high-paying/low-security job which I am all but guaranteed to land but far from guaranteed to hold for any length of time, and a low-paying/high-stress job (this one) that will happily keep me until I retire to a pittance of a pension at least a dozen years from now.
And I can't sleep. And I'm getting another cold. Isn't there anything good to write about? Oh, yes: options, and how it's nice to have them.
"Never mind the rocks at the base of the cliff, my friend; from which precipice do you want to learn to fly...?"
(Unlike an over-developed sense of ethics, which can lead to one second-guessing one's self to the point of inaction.)
I have to let my re-enlistment team know what I want to do in the next 24 hours.
I have to decide between a high-paying/low-security job which I am all but guaranteed to land but far from guaranteed to hold for any length of time, and a low-paying/high-stress job (this one) that will happily keep me until I retire to a pittance of a pension at least a dozen years from now.
And I can't sleep. And I'm getting another cold. Isn't there anything good to write about? Oh, yes: options, and how it's nice to have them.
"Never mind the rocks at the base of the cliff, my friend; from which precipice do you want to learn to fly...?"