Miss T is indeed having a v glamorous international student type lifestyle. Peppered with cocktails and dinner parties and such. Meanwhile I got caught in the monsoon rains on the way back from lunch and spent a soggy while outside BK with some other random people watching the ones with umbrellas rush past. Hoorah!
On matters less damp and more heavy, had conversation with self re: SF move. And noticed I was in desperate want of a plan. Now, the last time I just upped and left, I admit I didn't too bad a job of it. But, my priorities being different I realise it's not going to cut it just showing up and seeing what I can get.
Same like shopping with nothing in mind. Odd moments of serendipity aside, you may get something in the end but it doesn't quite go with as many things as you'd like back home and you spend the next three months trying to get some use out of those turquoise flats.
Except ofcourse jobs take up a bit more space than the bottom drawer, third from left. They inevitably expand and rise and eventually are taking up a space more like a sofa. And if it's not quite the best choice you're screwed for awhile until you go through the whole rigmarole again. So, in a blinding flash of the obvious, I realise my plan. Make out a company wishlist and create an opening from there. I have the time to do that starting now. Employers get someone proactive from the beginning and I get somewhere to go that sets me alight. I can't believe it hasn't occurred to me before to do this!
I should sit soggy outside BK more often.
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Very cool and makes sense. Life strategy lists huh, gotta try that when I feel the funk coming on. Do you mean you wrote down the job description/company you saw yourself in?
Hey, I've got my soggy BK moments too. Except they aren't usually about enlightenment...just plain sogginess. Glad that did something for ya!
BK... why not Mcdonald's! Maybe we should have zen points to attract the chi chi queens of the world to McD's....
Anyhoo, it's always good to have those aha moments! I tend to have them when i'm running... cos there's nothing much else to do/think about.
if i do run, i think about how i'm ever gonna reach the end, and whether i should just cut the run and go home, how far should i push myself coz i might injure something....
That true Jo, that's exactly what I struggle with a lot now. Push through to the end of this PhD nonsense or not? The answer is yes, but it is a long drawn out grudging yes. Need to work on the grudging part.
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