Work Anniversary
Sep. 1st, 2017 12:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenIt's been nineteen years since I started work at the Patent Office, and I only have twenty-one more years until retirement.
Things have changed in various ways, in the world at large, and at work, and I have changed. I had been unemployed for a while; I owed money on my student loans, and owed money to my parents for moving expenses, as well as credit card debt (again, because of moving). I remember preparing a written warning to myself, "Failure is not an option." I was a younger man, and I hoped that I would at last find someone special and get married. That didn't work out, but at least my job did, despite setbacks and periods of high stress.
My parents were alive, and my father was still actively teaching; my one nephew was a baby. Now my parents have died, that nephew is an adult, and I have two other nephews and a niece. I've traveled to various places, been invited onto the board of Georgist organizations, met authors and fellow fen at a few sf conventions. There are things in life that I have accomplished, and things that I have missed.
Things have changed in various ways, in the world at large, and at work, and I have changed. I had been unemployed for a while; I owed money on my student loans, and owed money to my parents for moving expenses, as well as credit card debt (again, because of moving). I remember preparing a written warning to myself, "Failure is not an option." I was a younger man, and I hoped that I would at last find someone special and get married. That didn't work out, but at least my job did, despite setbacks and periods of high stress.
My parents were alive, and my father was still actively teaching; my one nephew was a baby. Now my parents have died, that nephew is an adult, and I have two other nephews and a niece. I've traveled to various places, been invited onto the board of Georgist organizations, met authors and fellow fen at a few sf conventions. There are things in life that I have accomplished, and things that I have missed.
