1 post tagged “new year”

Well, I can honestly say that was the most anticlimactic new year's eve of any I have ever experienced.

Some years are better than others...2007 was a good year. Nothing very remarkable happened overall...there was a bad bump or two - a good friend passed away. There was a a highlight or two - Marly came into my life as did Mr. M and Bandit. Toward the end of the year I made good friends with my neighbors. Heck, one of them has even become my hairdresser!

2008 is shaping up to be not such a good year. I hope that somewhere along the way it turns out that I am wrong about that. For now, though, work is going to rule my life and not in a good way. Beginning next week, I will be required to travel every week. I will be gone two nights and three days. Almost half my life will be spent on the road - away from my family (both fur and people), my friends, my home. I will be sprucing up my resume and looking for other opportunities, however, there is a bit of a dangling carrot for putting up with the misery of being away - if I can hold out until next fall when the company offers up the certification class again I can become "official" at what I do.

What does that mean, exactly? It means that instead of being something that I was 'on-the-job' trained to do for my specific company and then trying to fluff up those skills to make some sense for another company, I will be fully fully certified which will transfer anywhere. This also means much more in compensation opportunity. I could take the course on my own, but it is several thousand dollars - something I don't have and it would require missing work which would also cost me money. If I complete it through the company then it is on company time and they pay for it.

So, my 2008 resolution is simply this...to try to survive. To survive without loosing myself, or everyone I love.