Hi ho, to the three RSS subscribers I have who haven't yet abandoned this cobwebby page. I spring forth from the shadows bearing news:
I got a job.
Of course, I'm pretty sure anyone who reads this page already knows this, but whatever.
It's hardly the glamorous or career-path employment I had been hoping for; in fact it's very well embedded in the "well, it's a job..." category. It means for 9 hours of work every day I get a (quite meager) paycheck and a (very meager) sense of having a place in the world. I guess these days with the economy in flames, it can't hurt to have a job, no matter how boring or pointless.
But I digress. What having a job also means to me is that I have a slightly more elevated sense of purpose in life, a condition that hopefully will lead to a more regular set of updates for this poor neglected weblog.
It also doesn't hurt that I'm working at a Japanese organization, which for you, my loyal reader, means continued anecdotes about Japan. I promise they'll be interesting ones.
Comments
Thank goodness you're back!
Posted by: Ma | September 24, 2008 7:38 PM
Congratulations on getting a job. Work definitely does give a sense of purpose to the day. I look forward to reading more of your work. Also, I will be making the transition from Japan back to the USA in spring. There's no place like home.
Posted by: Jamie | September 29, 2008 2:38 AM
Dude--I want to know when you get to interview someone like the one you had in Japan. Just for the fun of it, you have to ask some of the same questions. Oh wait--that would probably get you arrested or at least sued since you're working in the US. :-) Nevermind...
Posted by: jansen | October 6, 2008 2:50 PM