Day: July 7, 2011

Today is the last day that I can take advantage of a school that I think I’d like to attend. The problem is that said school costs 1500.00 and while I’d really like to do it I’m a little wary of the cost at this time.

See it’s not just the cost of the school, it’s the cost of accommodations while I’m at the school too.

Plus this isn’t the only class that I’d like to take. I’d also like to head to Ft Lauderdale and take one class from a dive school to determine if I want to invest a lot of cash to become a resort dive operator/dive instructor. I’m looking at that as a pathway to a new career.

I can drive to Ft Lauderdale. I can probably afford the one class, it’s again the accommodations that present the major expense.

Then there’s the trip I’d like to take up the coast to add photos to my portfolio.

All of these things require cash & time. The cash I have more or less, the time is questionable.

Since the company has put us on furlough it’s really put a monkey wrench in my travel plans. How can I take off without knowing if I’ll be called back at a moments notice?

It would be the real shits to be attending a 5 day class in Ft Lauderdale and suddenly find out that I have to be at work here in California the next day. Unfortunately, my company has that kind of planning… Everything is mandatory,  (I’m reminded of The Princess Bride. “I don’t think that word means what you thing it means”) and the expectation is that the employees are always sitting in their cubes available for instant spur of the moment meetings.

I guess I’m playing it too safe. Maybe I need to just say fuck it and go live, instead of hanging on tender hooks waiting for one of the upper management morons to decide what the fuck they’re doing.

After all they’re not paying me right now are they?