I have quite a comfortable home office, but it’s overrun at this moment with the contents of my former office at my previous employer. And even before I dropped off the boxes and framed prints that now lean against a very dirty aquarium, the room has been as disorderly and out-of-sorts has my mind and spirit have been for most of this year.
But I am not morning my lost position. On the contrary, I look at it as a refreshing break. I know how bleak the job market is, but this is a chance for me to reevaluate what I want to be doing with my time and energy, not just how I earn money.
So, today I’ve been at it early. It’s gotten worse rather than better as I unpack, clean, and organize. I’m sure it will take a day or two between my initial networking emails and phone calls, letting people know what’s happened and getting them thinking about me as they move about in the world and hopefully have the presence of mind to say, “Hey, I know a guy that would be perfect for that.”
So I clean and discard and organize. And I contemplate the future.
What am I reading today? I pulled from my shelf a thin volume of Dickens, “Hard Times”. If you haven’t run across the wonderful little Konemann Classics editions, they’re very well made hardback books, smaller than the common paperback. Perfect in their portability. I find them in my local Half Price Books, but I’ve bought them off of Amazon. Well worth tracking down and simply delightful to slide into your jacket pocket while traveling.
