2011 - Year in Review

[mortonfox]

Yes, it's already the second week of the new year but I was busy the first week and 2011 was such a busy year that it was hard to distill the important things from the year. The biggest change is after 16 months being out of work, I returned to work for a small startup (literally a 6-person office when I joined) in Wilmington. My previous job wasn'

Comments

[schnee]

Sounds like a great new job. *s* Maybe if you look back in a decade, it'll indeed have changed as the company grows, with red tape and bureaucracy and cubicles and all that, but I imagine that as one of the earliest employees, you may be one of those with proper offices who're above these things - or you'll move on again. :)

[mortonfox]

Indeed it is great. One of the problems I had in writing this Livejournal entry was I have a hard time getting excited any more because I know how things can go bad and disappoint after a while. But in any case, I hope this job lasts a good long time since it is interesting work.

[d4b]

...16 months being out of work...

While a true statement, you might want to consider replacing that with "retired". You're one of the lucky few who returned to the workforce because you wanted to, (admittedly, due to sheer boredom, as far as I could tell, but still...), rather than having to.

[mortonfox]

Yes, but I did consider that it would be gauche to imply I was living comfortably between jobs and wasn't even close to running out of assets/funds, when the rest of the economy was in dire straits.

[d4b]

I hardly see you as a conspicuous consumer, Morton, but frankly, (IMHO) there's absolutely no reason why you should feel that you have to hide the fact that you've planned, you've saved, you're frugal, and you're already able to reap the benefits if you choose to do so. In fact, if people are open to listening to you, they could learn quite a bit from what you've done.