Monday July 19, 2004
I have an interesting descision to make. One which will change the course of my life possibly for the better but perhaps for the worse.
I have been doing the same job for the last 4 years since leaving school and have been seriously thinking about uprooting myself and travelling around this wide brown land which i call home. Initially i intended to work for just 1 year before heading off for a year to travel around a bit. After the first year was up i was offered an ongoing position with my company so i decided to take this up.
I then moved to a different business for a year and a half and finally 6 months ago i started a new job!! So yes i've been pretty busy with work and have had plenty of variety to keep my hungry mind happy.
My current job is probably one of the best jobs a young bloke could hope for. I work for a number of different businesses in my town doing troubleshooting work on their computer systems. I get to see heaps of different people and heaps of different situations which is a good thing. The bosses are my friends and i seem to be able to get along with all the people i work with.
So, what is the problem i hear you all ask!! Well that's a good question.
This time last year my father passed away unexpectedly in a boating accident which shocked us all. It was especially difficult for me due to the similarities i think me and him had. He was a free-spirit type who never seemed to hold down a steady job and who never liked to stay in the one spot for too long. I think we lived in the one house for 10 years straight when i was growning up which would have been some kind of record for my father. I also never got around to telling him exactly how i felt about him which is my biggest regret in life so far. I loved the man.
Because of all this i feel that i have to do what i had allways spoken to him about and go travelling. I dearly want to do this but i made a promise to my current bosses that i would not up and leave in 6 months!! Because they are a small company it would be difficult to find someone to cover for me. I don't want to harm the company in any way so it is hard for me to tell them that i want to quit. So what to do??!
I have a few more thoughts on this issue but i will have a think about them and post them in a later edition!
Cheers
joebie