I’m going to be posting on a regular basis again soon, I promise…and it may be from the desk of a large corporation. I’ve been burying myself in work lately because I’m faced with the possibility (probability) that I will need to get a mainstream, traditional job soon. Although I fear that I’ll be unable to adapt to that sort of structured, monotonous existence, I’m trying to view it as a positive. I will, after all, work as a skilled professional and make pretty good money, and of course enjoy all the human interaction I currently avoid…uhhh…I mean miss out on…by working at home and hanging out with my dogs every day. But it’s a tough sell to that stubborn, no-bullshitting conscience of mine. For many years I’ve rejected the notion that I have to sit in traffic for hours each day, work in small cubes, and feign friendship with a bunch of competitive pricks in order to pay for shit that I don't really need anyway (btw, thanks for that, Tyler). And now I’m looking at making a career out of basically striving to become Bill Lumbergh himself. We’ll see. I may have a few more tricks up my sleeve before I finally sell out, but don’t hold your breath. Most likely I’ll be sitting “in front of a computer all day, workin’ the office job, dreaming of a life where the people sitting next to you talk to you face to face instead of through emails.”

I’d be lying though if I said I wasn’t just a little excited about using the degree I worked my ass off for five years to get. There is a reason I studied what I did, and if I remember correctly it had something to do with a fascination with electrical phenomena. But I wouldn’t be me if I wasn’t pessimistic about entering the realm of yuppies networking and TPS reports. At the end of the day, maybe what really scares me is the idea that I’ll actually like my new job.