After making the decision to leave a comfy position as IT Manager in a very big company, I am in between jobs in this “Launch into the Deep” break. 45 days have gone by quickly, with moments of anxiety and excitement. It is not clear how long the break would become, how good it becomes, how depressed it could turn out. The thing is it has happened before, 20 or so years ago, and that was a memorable period.
Come to think of it, in US, at home in the first 5 years of life, onto school education for the next 20 years, then work 40 years or so till the so-called retirement. As we retire in the 60s, there are another 20 years or so. What do you think of this 5 – 20 – 40 – 20 equation? If we grow something on a fertile soil, could the harvest happen for consecutive 40 years, and still produce good crops? What do we do to the soil to keep it fertile?
In a comfy position for some time, things happened – got many partnership working, knew a lot of people, yet, sometimes the hunger and uncertainty feel dwindles, the reality replaced by the corporate view; I tried in the last few years, to reinvent the wheels, it worked for a while.
So now it is the 46th day in my break, I grasp a book about blogging from a library. Let’s see how it goes.
oliviatamccue 
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