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Entries from December 2009

So What Is Retirement Anyway?

December 30th, 2009 · Comments Off

Working for myself means I get to call the shots, create my own hours, work with who I want and on what I want when I want. Some people think that’s pie in the sky crazy talk. If it’s crazy, let me be totally nuts

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Tags: Self Employment · Transitions · Working

Isolation Revisited – Some Definitions

December 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off

What is isolation, anyway? In Wikipedia I find solitude, a social state and isolation (psychology), a defense mechanism. Well, I guess the state of my social wasn’t so great the other day and I so I wrote a ditty on isolation, which, ok, was definitely a defense mechanism. For what? Whatever, we all have days [...]

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Tags: Transitions

Isolation

December 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments

You’ve got to be careful. You think it’s so great to work from home but you never see anyone. The only way you relate to co workers is on sometimes very complicated phone calls. You can’t see anyone’s face but often you can hear their frustration. Or worse yet silence until you prod them to [...]

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Tags: Transitions · Working

Short and Sweet

December 11th, 2009 · Comments Off

It seems like that’s what I get these days in lieu of actual communication with friends. So, this will be a short and sweet post, mostly commiserating about ‘the way it seems to be these days.’
First there was people talking to each other (believe me, this is something I actually experienced in my own lifetime). [...]

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Tags: Transitions

The Importance of Really Taking Time Off

December 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I returned a week ago today from a 3 week trip to Myanmar (Burma) with a few days on the end in Bangkok. Every time I travel or even get away from my “real life” for more than a couple of weeks, I come back changed in some way. Taking time off, really getting away [...]

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Tags: Transitions · Working