Important observance

In case you've been hiding under a rock (ok, a pebble would probably do the trick), Friday September 19th is Talk Like A Pirate Day.

I was remiss in my observance last year, even though I knew about it. Never again.

Arrr, avast ye.

Guilt-free sick day, and late-breaking news.

So, I'm home sick from work today. I'm honestly sick, as in just too dizzy and nauseous to be effective in my stressful office job.

Which leaves me taking a guilt-free day at home, still quite functional enough to work on the job application that has been keeping me from posting for over a month.

That I haven't mentioned on LJ in any way whatsoever, because I've been being quiet about it.

I've been being quiet about a lot of things on LJ. I think I'm going to stop that. I'm not sure how it will turn out.

The long and short of it is, despite the fact that I just got an excellent performance review and a raise, I'm not cut out for this line of work (Purchasing). The aggressive "Let's make a deal" attitude, the extraordinarily vague requirements, the grueling deadlines, and the crushing workload are just... well, it's a lot of things I'm not suited for.

That and I work for a company that puts about 90% of its products into tanks and bombers, and I'm not really comfortable with that as a lifestyle choice.

So, as the company gears up for relocation to another city where I would have to pay rent (I currently live with my mom), I'm taking the opportunity to gracefully bow out.

If I can ever get myself to do the flipping application for the Seattle Public Library, which is, as far as I can tell, my dream job.

Another thing I'm working on is the all-or-nothing attitude that tells me once I start talking about something in LJ, I have to do a dissertation on it. In defiance of that instinct, this is me ending the post right now. I'll write more later. But I need to learn this stopping thing.