Bliss, Freedom, and parachutes
Sep. 23rd, 2000 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pluralToday I quit my job...
had a feeling it was coming, but it does feel nice now. I have some business deals to close early this week, then it is off to eastern washington for a week of bliss.
My boss took me out for cocktails at 3pm, I was blitzed by 4pm.
I highly recommend employement contracts, see this is the beauty of it, I quit today, and they still have to pay me for the next two months. Of course, I have another job offer in the works, after my required month off between jobs of course.
I refuse to work more than 9 months a year, it is too great a waste of life.
I am not sure exactly what I am going to do with the time yet, maybe take up pottery again or something similarly zen like.
I have decided to put off chasing women for a while as well. I realized that I am a very different person from the last time I was single and should probably explore it and figure out what works for me.
I went wine shopping yesterday, bought over 13 cases of wine, spent far too much money but it was worth it. I am thinking of opening the bottle of '63 Rothchild sitting back on my porch with a two hundred dollar cuban cigar and getting sloshed.
There is a delightful point of excess in life, where you are no longer enjoying something particulary fine, but enjoying the simple freedom to burn cash.
I have exquisite tastes, but to be completely honest I cant tell the difference better a hundred dollar cigar and a two hundred dollar cigar. so why do I smoke the two hundred dollar cigar? Granted I am not bill gates so I dont do it often, but there are two reasons, the first because I can, and the second because I enjoy the fact that I can.
I think I almost enjoy spending money for its sake alone, more so that for what it buys me.
Being able to drop a few grand on wine because I got excited and felt like it, is quite refreshing, almost theraputic even.
I highly recommend it.
had a feeling it was coming, but it does feel nice now. I have some business deals to close early this week, then it is off to eastern washington for a week of bliss.
My boss took me out for cocktails at 3pm, I was blitzed by 4pm.
I highly recommend employement contracts, see this is the beauty of it, I quit today, and they still have to pay me for the next two months. Of course, I have another job offer in the works, after my required month off between jobs of course.
I refuse to work more than 9 months a year, it is too great a waste of life.
I am not sure exactly what I am going to do with the time yet, maybe take up pottery again or something similarly zen like.
I have decided to put off chasing women for a while as well. I realized that I am a very different person from the last time I was single and should probably explore it and figure out what works for me.
I went wine shopping yesterday, bought over 13 cases of wine, spent far too much money but it was worth it. I am thinking of opening the bottle of '63 Rothchild sitting back on my porch with a two hundred dollar cuban cigar and getting sloshed.
There is a delightful point of excess in life, where you are no longer enjoying something particulary fine, but enjoying the simple freedom to burn cash.
I have exquisite tastes, but to be completely honest I cant tell the difference better a hundred dollar cigar and a two hundred dollar cigar. so why do I smoke the two hundred dollar cigar? Granted I am not bill gates so I dont do it often, but there are two reasons, the first because I can, and the second because I enjoy the fact that I can.
I think I almost enjoy spending money for its sake alone, more so that for what it buys me.
Being able to drop a few grand on wine because I got excited and felt like it, is quite refreshing, almost theraputic even.
I highly recommend it.
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Re: Thank you.
Date: 2000-09-23 02:30 pm (UTC)"Life is pain Highness, anyone who says differently is selling something."
I find that perspective and perception together consist of 90% of the reality of our lives. How we look at things and how we are perceived are things which are the most often neglected and yet have the greatest impact on our lives, of course our personal perspective is the more important of the two in our personal lives, but in ones career the perception of others takes a greater significance. I have found that the amount of work you actually do, and the amount of success you have in a career are only in the slightest way connected, what truly defines your success is the perception of how valuable you are to the company. Your perspective works the same way in your personal life. The difference between an ordeal and an adventure is "Perspective".
Make the choice, only to live adventures.