Yeah, I know it's "be careful what you wish for," but I appear to have been bitten by a slightly altered version of the cliche...
This October I gave you a list of things I'm thankful for in that oh, so saccharine Thanksgiving tradition. Among them was my gratitude for having a job that I love. Lo and behold, two months later and there's news on that front.
I'm honestly not sure it's entirely bad news, but my boss quit.
Weird, I know.
I work for a small company that is under contract with a larger firm. After many years and many issues well above my pay grade, the guy I work for has decided to part ways with the larger company. Since I work for him and not that larger company, this may (or may not) mean I'm about to be unemployed. At the moment, there's no firm word on whether or not I will have a job going forward.
Come the new year, it looks like there's a better than even chance that I'll be looking for a new adventure. Not exactly what I had in the grand plan for next year when I was looking ahead in October.
As I say, I'm not entirely certain that this is a bad thing. Difficult and concerning to be sure, but I've always been a person who leapt out of the plane and figured out how to build a parachute on the way down. The only difference is that this time I may be getting a push.
It's disheartening that just as I was fully settled in to a job that paid the bills without raising my blood pressure, it slips away thanks to stuff beyond my control.
While I hadn't planned any new adventures in the near future, now that one seems to have been thrust upon me, I'm pretty sure I'm up for it. At my age, starting over is much more difficult than it was when I rolled the dice on a bookstore in a small town fifteen years ago. I suspect that this time around it will be more stressful, not less, but I could be wrong.
Two things are pretty much certain:
Those HeroForge miniatures will have to wait.
This should make for some good blogging down the road, at least...
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