Years Forward

The last post I posted was four years ago and it was an unfinished draft from 2009.  Nine years since I have blogged.  I had a blog back in the early 2000's when blogging was a thing.  Now it seems blogging has faded, aside from a few stalwarts and some who have not gotten the memo.

Thirteen years ago a abruptly quit a career that, in hindsight, I should not have abruptly quit.  A decade ago I tried to revive at least a shadow of its former glory but it was not to be.  Five point seven years ago I reentered the workforce in a position a shadow of what might have been.  And here I am. 

For the next several years this is what I will do.  I will do it until I feel confident that when I stop doing it I won't face extreme hardship.  Sadly all ships will be harder as I will be that much older.  It will have been nearly 20 years since I abruptly left a career that promised vast riches if also poverty of spirit.  Some of the spirit I got back, some is long gone, and the riches became ever more elusive. 

This is a mistake.

As is this blog. 

20 years ago I thought I was so smart, but I was a fool.  And had I sat down and considered my foolishness earnestly I really think I might have gotten smarter faster.  Alas, I did not, dear Yorick.