New beginnings…
My life of leisure is coming to an end. Starting Monday, it’s looking like it’s back to full time work.
Not going into the wheres and whys here, since it is a bit strange that people can find out my whole employment history and output on Google as it is, so we’ll see if it’s possible to keep it on the down low this time. Previously, I would keep getting random e-mails about people asking me what it was like to work at macromedia, etc., etc., all based on them finding references to me working there from Google.
Anyway, it is going to be an interesting jump from my current schedule to more structure, but it will sort out soon enough. I wouldn’t even bother if I didn’t have some positive vibes about
the place to begin with. On top of that, I will still be reading, working on the novel, and continuing my ongoing contract job.
On some level, I think I do better with structure and, as the money ran down toward the end here, so did the productivity. I need to have stuff going on in which to shoehorn the rest of my activity. Do the writing before seeing the movie after which you can hit the gym before having dinner with someone, etc. When my day opened up too much, as I cut back on doing other things, a lot of productivity was wiped out as well. Given the whole day to accomplish tasks, they very often didn’t get done.
The new job has a commute, so there’s the reading time, possibly some of the contract time as well, as long as I take the train rather than get a car or somesuch. The gym is between my apartment and the train station, and my initial guess is that I may switch to two 30 minute workouts instead of one 45 minute workout. (The idea there is that it is too time-consuming to work out, go home, shower up, change clothes, and then go to the train. So, instead: workout, shower, change clothes,
leave the sweaty clothes locked up at the gym, go to the train, put in the workday, on the way home, since I’ll need to pick up the clothes anyway, bang out another 30 (in a second unsweated-through outfit), and head home. Will also spike the endorphins a bit to gear me up for working on the book or something).
It will all sort itself out in time. That’s just the thinking for right now.
Not planning to relocate or get a car just yet, although that would unlock additional time. Want to make sure everything’s a good fit and all that before any major jumps. The company also has a San Francisco office, so want to make sure there’s no possibility of migrating the gig north at some point once I have my bearings before doing a major move.
I do plan in the near future to get a new apartment, although I will probably hang out for another six months or so before looking into that. If the job lives up to the promise, perhaps it will be down the peninsula. Or, maybe a car and a relocate within the city will make more sense. Too soon to tell.
Should be an interesting time, though.
