Employment Woes

I just found out this week that my job, my official business role, for which I perform professional services and for which I am paid so I can in turn pay the wolves prowling around my door (you know, the OTHER service providers, some professional and some not), is funded only through next week.

A neat arrangement, isn't it? Evidently my services are dispensable, but the OTHER services are not, so I have to keep paying them no matter if I am paid or not. I think I got into the wrong line of work. I should have become a tax collector. Can you imagine folks saying "We don't need his services - we don't have to pay him!"... when the tax collector comes calling? Ha!

But I suppose I should not lament this all too frequent state of affairs too much. I am inclined to celebrate diversity, in nature, in human culture and experience, in many ways. If I were ever to be concerned about lingering too long in a job, it has turned out that diversity has been my guiding light - even if it is more accurately called the hand I am dealt in a game of strip poker where what I must strip off is the illusory cloak of security and comfort in familiar surroundings.

But the imminent demise of my daily refuge from unemployment can be seen two ways: a problem or a set of opportunities. Or even it might be both? I think it is often that we don't easily see opportunities until we have a problem to solve. In any event I do intend to solve this problem by exploring potential opportunities. In fact I have already started. Wish me luck. Thanks.