selenay | A bit of jabbering (Reply)

Over the weekend, I have been thinking a bit about life after moving to Canada and it has occurred to me that I'll be in the rather unique position of almost being able to start over again. Not with my personality, appearance or anything (I think those are definitely fixed now!) but career-wise. I plan to temp and take contract positions initially so that I don't jump straight into another really bad job, but that will give me some time to sit back and take stock. If I started applying for jobs at this very moment, I would be looking at doing something so thoroughly divorced from my current job that I'm not even entirely sure it would be IT-related.

It certainly won't be for another mega-corporation bent on world domination.

But how will I feel about the industry when I've been out for a couple of weeks? Or even a few months, if the temp positions that I find aren't IT-related? Will I be raring to get my teeth into another programming job or will a few months of sanity pursuade me into librarianship or hot-dog seller? Will I run a mile from another megalithic corporation or shrug my shoulders and dive in?

It's an exciting thought that I won't just be going into the same job all over again. It's not often that you get the chance to make this kind of change.

Today I am determined not to be still here two hours after I should have left. Apart from anything else, I have to meet

historyterry on AIM tonight and I will be thoroughly disgruntled if I'm late again due to my minion's slow progress at his work. So there.

I got some work done on Sensible Man yesterday, which is always exciting, and I am almost done with a nasty character epiphany moment so I should be able to get on with the action now. Heh.

This time next week I shall be sitting in a departure lounge on my way to Canada. Yay!