Graduate school is out of the picture. For now, anyways. As it turns out, my one academic reference filled out the form, but never sent in an actual letter of recommendation. Even after I followed up with him about it. Ah well...no point in getting worked up over it. Over the past month I wasn't even sure if I would have gone even if I was accepted. I really do have a good thing going here and I'm not sure I am ready to give it up for more debt and being right back where I was this time last year - unemployed with a degree that didn't make much sense.
So what is on the agenda now? Well, for starters, enjoy having a job that I don't have to bring home with me, leaving time for other stuff. Enjoy getting off work in time to be home with my kids after they get home from school. Enjoy being in a home (not an apartment) that, while it's not in the best of condition, is affordable and has a fenced back yard (in all its decade-long, neglected glory). Enjoy full medical/dental benefits. Enjoy watching a 401(k) slowly grow. Enjoy the thought that I'll be getting a few more clients at work before too long.
INVICTUS
by Wiliam Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
And so I am.
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Paying the bills and not worrying about having a job is not a bad thing. Try huggyandgrumpy.blogspot.com Dad
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