A lot of people are asking, “so what have you been doing everyday since you’re not working and don’t you get bored?” Honestly, not really. My typical week day isn’t much different to my previous work days at all. The one to two hours productivity I’ve filled with job applications, self study, poker and writing. The rest of the time is just the same surfing, emailing and chatting throughout the day, sitting at my desk idling. It’s a testimony on how stifling it used to be when the only notable difference (big difference) is that I’m no longer being paid. I was going to mention something about being guilt free now for spending time so frivolously but towards the end you couldn’t squeeze an ounce of guilt out of us in the office. 

Things I do miss, work lunches. They were the highlight of the day. All those cafes, bakeries, fancy restaurants. We’d ventured as far as Mascot for a pork roll or Waterloo for fluffy gnocci. Working out where we were heading for lunch was the morning priority. And then there’s the coffee breaks, breakfast meetings, morning and afternoon teas too. Sickening isn’t it?

A by product of not having a burning desire is the tendency to always leave options open. If plan S didn’t work out there’s always plan D and L (they’re not A, B and C because without direction they are plans unordered in preference). Having these crutches is actually quite debilitating. With backup options the first sign of resistance usually invokes reconsideration instead of persistence. It’s not unlike performing a breadth first search on the Tree of Life which may have made sense at the beginning but past a certain stage becomes suboptimal to a depth first search with backtracking. 

So in the spirit of performance tweaking,  I’m diving in depth first so to speak. No longer “not opposed” to staying, I’ve booked flights to jet off once more. A one way flight this time without obligation to return. Let’s just see how deep this rabbit hole goes.

After three months in HK I’m back in Sydney for now, currently looking for work targeting a different country each day. I’m not opposed to a short term contract here, if only to help pay some bills but ultimately would still like to leave again and try something different.

Been keeping busy catching up with those little things that you always mean to do ‘when you have time’ but never get around doing. Hopefully the variety will bring fresh motivation to write and update more. Stay tuned, I’ve placeholdered several Categories and aim to start fleshing them out once I’ve ironed out the kinks in the new layout.

What I thought was a standard theme swap turned into a Wordpress upgrade nightmare that required a wipe and reinstall! Yay for new beginnings.