Going Skiing

[Yossarian]

The result of Giving Notice?

Today, I think, I finally decided to move on from my current company. They don't know it yet, and something could happen in the next week to change it, but it's not likely. I plan to give them notice when I return on Jan 3rd.
Too bad, I had pretty much gotten them to give me Feb off to ski. And won a better $ deal too. But we're rotten at the core, and I just can't take it anymore, no matter how sweet the personal winnings might be. The pragmatist in me tells me to definitely ride it out for the next six months, take Feb off, and use whatever other paid vacation I can get, have a paycheck for a few more months, and so on...

..but I'm just not sure I can do it. I just don't care, and I don't care that I don't care, and that - that, I care about.

It's been 4 solid years of working, I'll be okay to take a break, I think.

Getting real tight with my lady, think she's ready to move to Denver or whereever I want to live with me, so that's cool...and I have skied less and less in the last couple seasons, so it's of course time to focus on that again.

Don't know how it'll all shake out, I may end up in Seattle, married, with a regular job, or in Bend, alone again, as a ski bum, or in Denver, with a girl, on a new path, but I'm sure it'll figure itself in due time, as it always does.

These things, they ebb, they flow, priorities change, people come, and go.

You don't get to deal the hands, you just play the cards. So, play on player, bluff when you have to, fold if you gotta, win when you can. You make the best decisions you can when they present themselves, and you make take the road less traveled the next time the same choice is presented.

Unless you're sitting around, passing time, waiting for something to happen to you, life is nothing if not interesting.

I guess we'll just see, huh?

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...?

[bklyn]

Movin' On.
Couldn't have happened to a better guy.

[13]

We got your back.

How you say ... "thrutch it?!"

[Woodsy]

These things, they ebb, they flow, priorities change, people come, and go.

You don't get to deal the hands, you just play the cards. So, play on player, bluff when you have to, fold if you gotta, win when you can. You make the best decisions you can when they present themselves, and you make take the road less traveled the next time the same choice is presented.
?

Two roads diverged, woods and I...?

see ya whenever we converge again.
I think Buster's 50th is mandatory....

[marshalolson]

congrats yos.

psyched for you both...

[Buster Highmen]

Some hard thinking going down about the money funnel, huh? One of the more complicated pensee's methinks. But life's about being free and feeling good about the day-to-day.

So best o' luck to you. Feel the wind under your wings.

[Tippster]

No more trips to Reston, VA? Who will bend our spoons now?

Good for you, Yoss. Do what feels right, not what your Brain says is right. Brains lie.

[Tap]

If you don't do it this year, you'll be another year older when you do.

- some old guy


good luck, buddy.

[snowdreamer]

Good for you!!! Congratulations I think it takes a lot of courage to follow your heart.


I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

[shirk]

Congrats on the move. Change is good.

Your not the only one. I give my notice on Jan 3rd also. Last day will be Friday Jan 13th. A 3 or 4 week road trip will land me in Vancouver for the next stage of life.

The comments about not sitting back and waiting for life ring so true. I am folding on this hand in Ontario and getting delt a new one to play out west. Play on.

[lemon boy]

Yossarian = Totally succumbing to peer pressure.

Ohhh OHHHH OHHH Everyone else is jumping off cliffs and changing their life memmememeemememe!



Congrats dude. Ummm btw- you missed out today (in case you hadn't heard and so I can gloat just a tiny teensy bit more)

[Yossarian]

Thanks everyone (even you LB ).
It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
I'll come right out and say it - quitting a well paying job with tons of flexibility seems insane to me at many levels, knowing that I'm faced with a serious reduction in lifestyle/cash/savings/etc without a plan in mind...
But I think I've just reached that point of no return.
I'll hold it together through the week and make it to the holiday week off, and maybe feel differently after a break, but I starting to suspect not.
Vacations do make it better, but the time elapsed between moments of clarity such as this gets shorter and shorter each occasion.

[truth]

Nice action Yoss, but still feel you should wait til the end of the time off they allready agreed to. You have it coming. Milk em for all ya can, they'd do the same to you.

[mitch buchannon]

Awesome Yoss...

I just pulled the same shit. I quit a good gig that paid way too much because it made my soul cry. I'm about 6-7 months behind on the move though, due to the girlfriend having already committed to teaching here in Chicago next semester. This summer will (99% chance) have us relocated to either Seattle or Denver.

Until then I have no idea what I'm doing. The job I have right now isn't really doing much better for my soul.

</rambling>

Not having a plan is extreme. Hope it all works out.

[This End Up]

Milk em for all ya can, they'd do the same to you.

Advice = Good

[Yossarian]

Nice action Yoss, but still feel you should wait til the end of the time off they allready agreed to. You have it coming. Milk em for all ya can, they'd do the same to you.

I know, I know, I should. I really should. Paid vacation time? How can you argue?

But it's hard, I'm so spent on them I'm having a hard time motivating to even lift a pinky this week, despite the fact that I have legit stuff to do for my clients (who I do care about), despite the fact that I have only three days until I get a break. Closure just can't seem to come soon enough. I think that's the key - by all measures, there's no question that I ought to take the paid vacation "due" and *then* tell them I'm on the way out... But that would mean closure is still some three months away...

I dunno...we'll see. Head down for three more days, go home to family and snow for a week, and see what happens on the other side. 99% sure that my pal, our COO who largely holds the place together in my mind, will be announcing he's leaving for greener pastures when we come back from the break, one more big reason for me not to want to stick around for even a couple months.

On the other hand, quitting right before a vacation does seem pretty fucking stupid.

Anyway...I've at least decided they're not worth my life energy any more; sometime in the next three months I'm out, no plan for the future. Extremo Office Dood, I.

And that feels pretty good!

[ill-advised strategy]

... But we're rotten at the core....and I just can't take it anymore, no matter how sweet the personal winnings might be.

just put some epoxy in there, it'll be fine.

!and good luck mang!

[gincognito]

For peeps like you, I have little doubt that things find a way of working out. Congrats on seeing the problem and taking steps to fix it.

Sick and ashamed and happy (and sometimes a little too much like a John Irving character myself),
d.

[lemon boy]

Yoss: "Hello, Bossman? Yeah you know that February deal we had? I'm gonna need that in Janurary actually."

then quit.

Yoss, you might look to see what kind of HR policy you guys worked up re: vaca b/c some policies pay out accrued vaca when you quit (pawn of satan paid me a nice chunk when I did).

[Yossarian]

Yoss: "Hello, Bossman? Yeah you know that February deal we had? I'm gonna need that in Janurary actually."

then quit.

Yoss, you might look to see what kind of HR policy you guys worked up re: vaca b/c some policies pay out accrued vaca when you quit (pawn of satan paid me a nice chunk when I did).

Heh, you're assuming that we HAVE a policy. Our policy is not to have a policy. Works great when you're on the receiving end, not so much when you are buried by work that you're actually esponsible for. It's a tiny company, it's not like there's anyone else to dump it on even. Fuggin' clients! I was actually asked to WRITE the policy, and when I did so, it was never implemented. Fuckers.

But yeah, I hear where you're coming from. Maybe I can move it up earlier.

[lemon boy]

I just remembered you trying to write the policy and now you know it should've included the phrase: "all earned vacation accruals will be paid out upon termination of employment"

oh well. next time eh?

Oh well, pull the plug on the bitch.

Get MD9 to give you a cut of the rent for managing his D-town properties and get Foggy to teach you how to fix houses and become a handyman.

[Platinum Pete]

I am in almost exactly same place right now. I know the struggle with the decision, too.
Just waiting to close on my house, then it's go time.

Good luck. If we both get free, let's ski together at least once.

[Blatant]

same boat dood, same fawkin boat. I've decided to use my company as a crutch for the move. I can relocate just about anywhere and choose New England, I have no plan but rollin into the unknown with a job takes a load off. However i'd have done it anyway, regardless. Not saying it's right and I don't dislike my job, or the people but being cooped in an office getting shit on all day by various factors isn't my ideal. Perhaps the same job in a different setting will be "better" either way i can hit VT and NH for some freshiefresh.

Good luck braw

[Buster Highmen]

Vacations do make it better, but the time elapsed between moments of clarity such as this gets shorter and shorter each occasion.

Oh, not to worry. You're getting older too.

[MeatPuppet]

..but I'm just not sure I can do it. I just don't care, and I don't care that I don't care, and that - that, I care about.

Yeah, sounds like it's time to move on. Good for you for recognizeing it. Whatever decision you make, as long as you are learning and growing, it's a good decision.


Good luck.