February 1, 2011
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Year One
Man, I can't believe I've been working in Fresno and living in Merced for 1 year already. My boss reminded me of this milestone by giving a form he signed that said he approved by annual merit pay adjustment, which is basically my yearly 5% raise (yay for more money!!). But it really hasn't felt that long, either, and I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing. Regardless, I've got the crucial 1 year of experience under my belt, which will hopefully look good (or better) on my resume. Ever since Gov. Brown was sworn in and the hiring freeze was supposedly "lifted", I've been applying to state jobs (outside of Caltrans) like crazy. I'm putting in the work to get out the central valley of perpetual fog. Hope someone hires me soon. Can't wait to get out of here, so that I can actually get on with my life. It's hard to firmly plant your feet somewhere when you know you're not going to stick around for long. It sorta feels like my life has been paused or put on hold as I accumulate more EXP (I suppose I level up every year). Ultimately, this is just a pit stop, solely to get my career on-track. Now with that more or less set, it's time to continue on with the plan and move to/get a job at a destination where I'm comfortable settling down at, and possibly buying a house and all that good stuff. I'm not sure what the next step is after that, but I'm definitely sure the step after is profit (+10 nerd points to whoever got this reference)
(grrrr......i sorta hate how that was one giant ass-paragraph**, but i don't know where the logical break point is. everything seems to flow right into each other)
**credit goes to xkcd for moving the hyphen one word to the right. after reading that comic strip, i do that all the time now
