keep consulting. joy is the best pay.
I may embroider this onto a pillow!!! If I only knew how to embroider.
Mal: You know, you ain't quite right. River: It's the popular theory.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
javachik - Jul 13, 2012 12:57:41 pm PDT #13706 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
amyth - Jul 13, 2012 12:58:28 pm PDT #13707 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
msbelle is wise.
JZ - Jul 13, 2012 1:01:59 pm PDT #13708 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Once you lay out the pleasures of your current life vs. the potential commute it really sounds like no contest, javachik. Is there any way he could be talked into actually hiring you as a consultant so you can still have the pleasure of at least doing some work with him without tying yourself to an endless commute?
Scrappy, I'm so glad your mom is starting to feel better.
javachik - Jul 13, 2012 1:06:54 pm PDT #13709 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Is there any way he could be talked into actually hiring you as a consultant so you can still have the pleasure of at least doing some work with him without tying yourself to an endless commute?
Bingo. This is what I am hoping may happen. I'd actually be reporting to someone who reports to him, and I haven't met her yet. So we shall see. Thanks for listening, peoples! Writing it out actually makes it more black and white for me. I tried writing a pros and cons list and found myself scrawling "commute" under "con" like five times and giving up.
Consuela - Jul 13, 2012 1:07:55 pm PDT #13710 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Life is too short to be miserable at work. OTOH, a ton of folks I work with in DC and here work 6-3 or whatever. Which, if one can drag oneself out of bed at that hour, does manage to avoid a lot of the traffic.
But I couldn't do it, myself. So I work nearby and take the bus, thus putting the time to good use listening to podcasts and audiobooks.
Do they have age categories, Consuela?
Nope, just Advanced/Intermediate/Beginner. And my climbing partner just bailed on me, so I guess I'm not going. Might see if I can convince my sister to watch more Shakespeare tonight...
smonster - Jul 13, 2012 1:15:07 pm PDT #13711 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Oh, yeah. I liked her.
Jesse - Jul 13, 2012 1:31:17 pm PDT #13712 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
joy is the best pay.
I'll just say, that's only true if there is also money. Which, obviously, there is for javachik as a consultant.
I just found myself quoting Don Draper's, "That's what the MONEY is for!" again the other day.
shrift - Jul 13, 2012 1:32:37 pm PDT #13713 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I think my weekend plans are to sleep a lot and try not to login to work more than once. Maybe I'll make some hummus.
Jesse - Jul 13, 2012 1:34:10 pm PDT #13714 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I need to do a bunch of cooking, somehow, and probably throw out the lettuce I never ate last week.
brenda m - Jul 13, 2012 1:52:32 pm PDT #13715 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Is there any way he could be talked into actually hiring you as a consultant so you can still have the pleasure of at least doing some work with him without tying yourself to an endless commute?
I might go back with WFH full time except when specifically needed in the office. Is there any job related reason (leaving aside any company culture issues, which are another matter) that that wouldn't work? If you can telecommute at all it seems like it might be a possibility.