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December 16, 2005
Time for a Change
Tomorrow is my last day as a gainfully employed person. That's right, my contract runs out in 24 hours. The gravy train has ended.
Sniff.
I suppose that means its time to get proactive about my future--to create a strategy that inspires a synergy of my interests and skills, and culminates in a multifunctional platform for change! And hopefully makes me a millionaire before I'm thirty.
As a first step (other than finishing my last contract assignment--hee, hee), I'm off to Connecticut for a couple days next week. I'll be meeting with a small company that does innovative things. With any luck, soon they will want to do innovative things in partnership with my own fledging company.
As a second step, I'm also in the middle of applying for a volunteer program that would send me to Africa for a year. Totally random, I know. But in lieu of another driving passion, adding human rights and international development fieldwork to my resume seems like a dandy idea.
Sadly, there is no third step--other than to seriously ramp up my social life in the coming weeks. I have my eyes set on a mysterious man (no details will be forthcoming, so just forget about leaving pleading comments), and my trip to Budapest/Prague in a month is coming along splendidly. I also have a holiday happy hour tomorrow night that promises to lead to late-night fun in D.C.
Too bad the weather is so crappy. The snow on the ground refuses to melt, and tonight we're getting a dousing of freezing rain. I count my lucky stars that I work from home (at least, for the next 24 hours, after which time I'll be just "sitting" at home), but even so, the slick streets make showing off my spectacular new shoes a life-risking adventure.
