Unemployment
You may have noticed, if you visited the site in the last day or so, that there’s a countdown in progress. At the time of this post, it stands at 10 days, 15 hours, 15 minutes. This countdown is an estimate of the total time remaining until I am once again unemployed self-employed.
The project I was contracted for is coming to a close in the next week and some. The new intranet site will be launching this Friday night (which is going to be an interesting couple of hours) after which I’ll only be needed for a few extra days just to make sure the transition goes smoothly. After Friday the 9th of March, I’ll again be without full-time gainful employment.
On one hand, I’m looking forward to it. I’m looking forward to being able to go to sleep whenever I want, and wake up whenever I want. This whole go-to-bed-really-early and wake-up-equally-early thing isn’t so much fun. I don’t plan to get back into my college sleeping habits, but I would like to go to bed at a reasonable hour (meaning, midnight at the earliest) and wake up sometime after the sun has risen. For the last four months or so, I’ve been getting to work just as the sun is deciding to show its face, and that’s just not as much fun as it sounds.
On the other hand, I’m going to really miss the structure of a full-time job. That’s one of the things that’s nice about school and/or work — there’s always something scheduled to keep you occupied, or at least give you somewhere to be at certain times. Un Self-employment doesn’t really have that sort of structure built into it. Unless I can get me some sort of new job relatively soon, I’m going to be a lazy bum. It’s not that I need a job desperately — I can afford to coast for a little bit — but I do need something to do on a regular basis.
So I guess we’ll see what happens.