Category: General

I’m still technically unemployed.  It’s strange to think I’m 43 years old and can’t really decide what career to pursue.  The old one was getting a bit musty and uninspiring.  I’ve found that after doing the same basic type of work for so many years I’m basically unqualified for most things.  I find myself looking at ALL of the available jobs on craigslist.  I’m on career connection, monster and get daily updates for searches based on my qualifications and search criteria.  I have no real apprehension about changing careers but I wonder what the cost/benefit ratio will be in the end.  At the moment there is some income from clients while I work as a freelancer – if I take a low paying job that’ll limit or eliminate the amount of time for freelance work.

I’m toying with the idea of starting a new blog that will allow me a little creative freedom.  I even have the domain name picked out.  I have serious doubts about monetizing a blog.  There are too many fish in the sea, but perhaps it will give me some insights and ideas about where to take my future.  What exactly do people do at this point?  Go back to school for some new professional career?  What’s the real possibility of breaking into a new career at this age?  I’d imagine the possibilities are quite limited given the lack of experience in other fields.

I pulled the plug today on the suck-ass job. I hope it was the right thing to do. I’ll admit I’m nervous about being able to make ends meet but things usually seem to come together when needed.

They are expecting me to report in to work tomorrow.  I’m not sure where they got the idea I was even planning on returning.  Of course I’ve had to run this around through my head since I walked out on the job on Thursday.  It’s Sunday afternoon and I’m pretty sure I’ve made up my mind not to return to that hell hole.

So it’s back to helping my wife out with her graphic design  business, at least for the immediate future.  I think I’ll work on getting some new certifications to make the resume look a little more polished.  I’m so over being a software engineer.  That job has sucked the life of any real desire to engineer software.  I do still like working on small programming projects – but I’m done with monolithic ugly monstrosities.

Tonight we take the kids back to their Mom’s house.  We are going to head to the Cheesecake Factory for some heavy appetizers and a couple of beers.  Gift cards are great.    We’ll figure out what my next steps will be tonight and try to relax a little.  I hope my wife remains as supportive as she has thus far.  :-)

Uber Douche

I have an irrational fear of phones.  Of course I’m not 100% sure it’s so much the phone itself as attempting to interact in real time with a real human.  Can’t we all just text and IM each other?  This whole talking thing is highly over rated.

The religious practice of ‘get ‘em while they’re young’ seems unsavory to me because it takes the minds of people just as willing to accept the existence of Santa Clause or Optimus Prime on faith as anything else, and produces for them a creator god who they are to take on faith is real as well. Then, they take away Santa and Optimus as fanciful, childish things, yet they maintain that god is the real deal? How can you willingly do that to a kid and not consider than you might be messing them up?

I’m quite sure that believing in a god is actually a mental defect – fortunately a curable one, just like learning Santa and the Easter Bunny don’t exist.

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Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time!
But He loves you.

~ George Carlin