{"id":127872,"date":"2015-09-03T10:05:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T16:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/03\/the-road-goes-ever-on-and-on-and-what-job-then-i-cannot-say.html"},"modified":"2015-09-13T12:08:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T18:08:46","slug":"the-road-goes-ever-on-and-on-and-what-job-then-i-cannot-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/03\/the-road-goes-ever-on-and-on-and-what-job-then-i-cannot-say.html","title":{"rendered":"The Road Goes Ever On and On (And what job then? I cannot say)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Road goes ever on and on<\/i>
Down from the door where it began.<\/i>
Now far ahead the Road has gone,<\/i>
And I must follow, if I can,<\/i>
Pursuing it with eager feet,<\/i>
Until it joins some larger way,<\/i>
Where many paths and errands meet.<\/i>
And whither then? I cannot say.<\/i><\/p>\n

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,<\/i> Book 1, ch. 1 “A Long-expected Party” (1954) [http:\/\/goo.gl\/DgJfvf<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Last day in the office, which is a bit bittersweet.<\/p>\n

The job hunt has been proceeding with semi-maddening slowness: there are positions, but people are responding soooo sloooooowly. The outplacement service I'm working with have a ton of good material and counseling, and I have some applications out, and some networking is occurring, and I'm spending far more time on LinkedIn than is probably healthy, and … well, no call-backs yet, but …<\/p>\n

In some ways, reaching the end of the line at my soon-to-be-former employer is a bit of a relief: it removes a distraction and adds some focus to what I'm doing. It also removes a paycheck and adds some existential terror, but let's focus on the up side here, right? <\/p>\n

My departure has also engendered a flock of "Wow, Dave, you're so going to be missed, you've been such a great help around here!" comments (along with "Are they insane?! That sucks!"), which has been kind of nice, too.<\/p>\n

But time (and the Road) march on. And while what lurks ahead is scary in its uncertainty, it's time to move along.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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