work, options, and the future
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, seeing as my supervisor is ‘resigning’ soon and that will mostly likely spell a massive workload increase with matching stress and the expected cluster f**ks to boot. Don’t get me wrong, I like my job – but that’s the problem… my job is about to change. There aren’t a lot of similar positions around here and I’m chained to an apartment lease so I can’t really expand my search area… so I’m SOL for the time being, but it’s given me a reason to really line up some goals for myself.
For starters, I really do want to move out of Fresno at some point. Towards the coast, or at least closer to a bigger city. Where specifically will be determined later and there are obviously a lot of variables involved, I just need to get out of the valley. That’s my major challenge.
Closer on the horizon, I want to look around at other fields I might be interested in and see about heading back to school to broaden my skills a little. I miss school. I really do. If I could go back full time, and I knew what I was going for, I would go for it with more focus this time. I wish at least the CADD department at FCC would offer a new prototyping class so I could try out the new machines they’ve gotten since I graduated.
Really, I’m just waiting for an opportunity to present itself. I don’t have a solid five year plan, and I don’t want one. I sort of like that it’s up in the air, it just sucks that I’m as tied down as I am right now.
