The Occasional Solipsist

You know how sometimes it feels like you're moving through your life on a conveyor belt, not really paying attention to the progression of time as it passes you by? No? Well I feel like that sometimes.

I try to pay attention to the most important moments because I know that if/when I am an old fart I am going to look back and lament not relishing every moment with my daughter and Superwife.

But I think sometimes in my zeal to pay attention to my immediate family life, I overlook other things like self-improvement, personal development, my career. I have always tended to look at work as a necessary evil, something I would choose not to do with my time if I could afford that luxury. But I do still treat work as seriously as that attitude will allow, because I want to feel validated and that I am earning my way through my life.

I haven't been looking at my current job in any long term way, as I have up til now been on recurring short term contracts. But I just today got a spot of good news in that department: I signed a much better contract early this morning, one that will give me some security and a better chance of a permanent position.

So Trin can't call her Daddy a Temp any more. Well, she can, but it won't leave him with the feeling of career impotence that it used to.

Labels: everything else, work