Today marks the one year anniversary of my working for the Department of Defense. It's been an interesting year. The main thing I like about it is getting to work with people.
Owning my own business was awesome in so very many ways. To me, though, the main downside was that people interact with you differently when you are not only the boss, but you own the company. I always enjoyed interacting with my coworkers when I worked a job. So, that part is great, now. I have awesome coworkers and really can't complain about the people where I work at all. It's actually a little surprising how much I enjoy the people I work with.
Today is furlough day 9. Really, it's day day 4 for most workers, but I took mine off in a big chunk to give me time to move and sell stuff. Taking this time off was a good idea. I needed some time away. I was starting to get burned out a little bit. I was able to settle in to the new condo, and sell off a big chunk of stuff on Craigslist, which more than covered the loss of income from the furlough.
I'm trying very hard to simplify my life. I've accumulated a lot of stuff over the years. Now that I'm in a condo, I just don't have the room I had in my house. I don't know if I'll ever have a big house like that again, but I doubt it. By the time I'm ready to afford another big house, my son will probably be off to college. There just wouldn't be a point to it.
So, there's just no good reason to have a lot of this stuff around. I may also be moving a few times in the foreseeable future and there's no reason to keep moving this stuff from location to location.
About the only extravagance I can foresee would be a music room of some sort. A little studio where I could play music without disturbing anybody. That will have to wait until I'm no longer living in a condo, though.
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