Well, the day has finally come: after 9 months of unemployment (3 months of which were spent traveling and 2.5 months of which were spent healing from my stupid bike crash), I start working tomorrow. Yep, you heard it right -- I'm going to be working.
I was lucky enough to get a year-long contract with Cisco working as a Business Analyst in their Business Collaboration Technology unit. This group is bringing social networking technologies to Cisco's 100,000+ employees world-wide. It is over the hill in San Jose, but I can telecommute some. Who would have thought that I'd end up with such a cool job in this economy? I really feel like I hit the lottery.
I do have to admit, that while I'm relieved to land a job and excited about the work I'll be doing, I'm sad that my semi-retirement is at an end. It's been pretty liberating to wake up each day and decide what I'd like to do for the day (without spending much money, of course). I've had the opportunity to travel to parts of the world that I never thought I'd get to, catch up on all my reading, get a lot of bike riding in (until the crash) and just generally decompress and reassess my life. My priorities are definitely different than they were a year ago and I feel much more "chill". I know what you're thinking, but I stopped taking my pain killers and muscle relaxants more than a month ago!
I'm extremely lucky to have traveled and spent so much time out of work without incurring any credit card debt, selling my boat, or touching my retirement accounts. Hell, I still have money left in my checking account. Though I do wish I had the money to remain retired forever, that's just not the case yet.
But in the meantime, I can honestly say that getting laid off last summer was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Monday, March 30, 2009
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