Technically, next Friday is my last day at the company I’ve worked at the past four years and a month but psychologically, it’s over as of today, and a bunch of us are going out tonight after work to celebrate. I’ve had one beer each night this week to build my tolerance back up since I haven’t been out drinking since mid-January, and haven’t gotten more than 5 hours sleep all week. I’ve noticed my tolerance for late nights has dropped dramatically the past couple of years, and it now takes me a full day to recover.
Anyway, this is by far the longest I’ve stayed at one employer, nearly doubling my 2.5 years in the Army, and it’s actually longer than I ever went to any one school when I was kid! (Three elementary schools, one middle school, two high schools.)
Not counting a one year diversion into financial planning, I’ve been working in and around publishing and/or marketing since I got out of the Army in 1993 and turned a couple of temp assignments at a directory publisher into a Circulation Assistant job. Fourteen years later (?!?!?!), I’ve worked in circ and fulfillment, membership development, and advertising sales and marketing — plus done some freelance writing — adding up to an accidentally meandering career track straight towards Publisher.
That’s the current version of my elusive “five year plan”, anyway.
This time five years ago, we were freshly relocated to Virginia, had just found out India was baking in the oven, and had no idea how disastrous a year we were going to have. We ended up back in New York by the end of the year, and it’s really only been the past nine months or so that we’ve really found a comfortable groove.
Five years further back, we were on the verge of breaking up for nine months, a period during which I started writing poetry and discovered just how high a tolerance for alcohol I had. We ended up back together at the beginning of the next year, got married seven months later, and the rest is history.
Daily Horoscope for Leo
Friday, March 23, 2007Your actions give away your heart’s desire now, and there is little you can do to hide what you want. The good news is that you can reach satisfaction, but not if you just assume that you should have whatever you want because you deserve it. You will need to earn your rewards through hard work. If you keep distractions to a minimum, though, you’ll be smiling soon enough.
Five years is a long time, and anything can happen, but I have a good feeling these next five will feature more highs than lows.
