OK, back to our normal weekly posts. I seem to be swinging rather between ecstasy and anguish, between "yeah, I can do it, I can figure out what I want to do, be great at it, enjoy my work and get paid a respectable amount for it" and, "I'll never figure it out and I've wasted my life till now and am continuing to waste it until the point when I decide to settle for a job I dislike that pays the bills, that is worse because I waited too long to try and get it. I should have become a computer programmer or something secure like that. Now I'm going to be a port-a-john cleaner who also has to watch 50 people's out of control children at the same time."
But mostly I'm determined and optimistic. That is my general MO with important goals. Keep at it and keep experimenting with methods, if what I'm doing isn't working well. As long as I'm continuing to take meaningful steps forward, it feels pretty good.
Lots of stuff is happening with the house! We may really be able to start moving in by the end of the month! Today the floors have started getting installed, and the walls getting painted. We've already got the electrical fixed up, and the plumber has already fixed most of the leaking faucets etc. It's all happening! Suzannah has been a whiz organizing the contractors, and doing some of the work that she can do, herself. It's gonna be great to have more space to move into, and the prospect of staying put for a while, to make creating a nicely organized system worthwhile. There are still a few things that will need to be fixed later: an AC unit that's broken, and a large picture window where the frame has rotted and so it's sunken down, but those are spring jobs.
Perhaps I can take some pictures of what's going on and add them to this post.
On the work front, I've begun to reach out to potential leads. I still don't feel quite ready: I haven't finished working through the 80,000 hours website, or my lists of strengths or things I enjoy doing, but I've both felt the call to take more actions, and been overtly advised to do so from several sources, so I'm going ahead with it. Ready fire aim.
OK, here are some pictures of the floor that's getting installed, and one of the closets that's just been repainted.
See you next week!
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