{"id":1384,"date":"2009-07-01T10:01:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T16:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2009-07-01T10:01:59","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T16:01:59","slug":"yea-im-unemployed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/yea-im-unemployed\/","title":{"rendered":"Yea, I’m Unemployed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"thecubes\"I am finished with my position at the State of Minnesota. I was there for a one year contract that turned into three. It was a good run, but time. When you are on a location for three years, you can make a lot of friends. I made no enemies. I will miss some of the people there. It took a long time to walk around and say good bye to everyone. I left almost two hours later than I had planned.<\/p>\n

It was a good contract. I had pretty good flexibility to look after sick kids, and got 3 years of solid swing experience as well as struts2, mentoring, and teaching 13 lessons in the classroom. See the “Intro to Java” tutorials.<\/p>\n

July 1, Canada Day by the way, is the start of a new adventure. Yea in the title is not “Yea, you heard right I’m unemployed and bummed about it.” It is more of a “YEA! WHOO HOO! I’m Unemployed.” I know alot of people are pretty bummed and paniced about being out of work, but I am not right now. The plan is to hang out with the kids this summer, and find work in the fall when Kate starts kindergarten.<\/p>\n

There was a time when people were very defined by their jobs. Er… wait, we still are in that time. I really have too much I want to do to be working. I am lucky to have this time without panic because I thought ahead. Three years ago I started putting more money into an account than I “paid” myself monthy in salary. It was specificly to cover times when I didn’t have a contract. Right now, it seemed like a good oportunity to take advantage of this.<\/p>\n

Before today, I felt like I had at least two jobs. One I got paid for (Computer Consulting), and one I am trying to get the skills and experience at (photography). And as any Father knows, playing with kids, and maintaining a house also consume a great deal of time and energy. I have no intention of sitting at home watching TV. I still have more things to get done than I have time for, but now I get to choose. It feels great. I will blog tomorrow about what the plans are (photography and otherwise), and explore what unemployed really means.<\/p>\n

PS. Happy Canada Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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