Another day another dollar
It might be time for a sabbatical. Not from blogging…but from the I.T. industry. What?! Yup, I am really thinking about it and weighing my options. After passing my 12 year anniversary this summer I’m beginning to wonder what happened to the energetic person I used to be in an office. Backwards companies, strange politics, random assignments, lack of job structure and wacky people; while common in the “real world”, now becoming all too familiar in my world.
I’ve been burned out for a few years now and it’s taking it toll on me. I’ll get excited and motivated, but only in brief spurts. I have projects and ideas scribbled over scraps of paper and notebooks filled with diagrams and concepts…shelves filled with books…racks of computers; all for work I want to research, but I don’t have the energy to start. It’s not for lack of drive, but lack of strength to continue. I gave I.T. more than 100% and I feel like it has zapped 80% of my energy. Like I am constantly battling a brick wall: I feel drained.
Maybe I’m just starting to see the light after the last few years of feeling like I was in a bottomless pit…maybe this is just the start of climbing out? I’m not sure. I’ve made some cracks in the walls of a few companies, but at the end of the day I wave the white flag and move on.
Maybe it’s time to take a break and get recharged.
“If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.”
– Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, April 2003
“Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.”
– Lucille Clifton
Worth a mention, good for a laugh
TGIF…it’s a “feature” day at BD@BS!! Last week I missed (again-again-again-again and I think again) big surprise…it won’t be another again. :) Well well well, just few links to add to your viewing pleasure…on with the sideshow!
being jennifer garrett – I have to mention this one again (and it’s been on my blogroll for some time) because she is reading 100 random blogs in 100 days…and reviewing them. Hmm sounds kinda like what I do. She’s just keeping on task :)
me, my camera and my life – Thoughts and pictures to go along with the posts. Click the “random life” link…it’s my favorite.
Nuclear Physics – You need to visit just for Friday Acronym Challenge!
return of the “kissing slut” – I swear KS has been on Blogs of Note before…but I can’t find the post so here we go…! Totally open, honest, funny and real (well, she might be a he and he might just write for kicks, but I think it’s real).
First and Last and Always – “goth punk child of hippies turned corporate whore”…do I really need to say anything? I mean you know you’ll click just to see what it’s all about.
Confessions of a Monkey – Perfect for an afternoon of laughs until you pee your pants. Yup, I said “pee your pants”…is it the ex roommate posts? The Best of Late Night Laughs? Little Monkey’s question of the day? Or just the random thoughts? I donno…but I like it.
I’m selling photos
Well…not yet. I haven’t picked the right one yet. However there is an auction online at Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/groups/katrina_auction/] for the Hurricane relief effort. Tons of pictures and lots of money to go to the Red Cross if you see something you like.
I like bunnies
I just can’t figure out which bunny I like better. Cheers to another wonderful crazy Thursday! :)
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