I Get a Free Field Trip
So the new job is sending me on a field trip this summer.
I'm going to Boston for a week in June to see what Microsoft is going to unleash on the world in 2007. I've never been a big Microsoft fan, but I can't argue with a week in Boston on the company dime.
It's kinda funny. I spend nine years doing everything I can do to keep a big fancy web site on line and running smoothly and I got crapped on regularly.
I shift gears to a much smaller scale company that actually believes in people and wants to grow them versus burn through them and now I'm getting free trips... what a difference.
I've never been to Boston before... should be fun.
There is a down side to the new job... I did take a pay cut. I can't just take vacations on a whim anymore. I burned through all my reserve cash and now have to rebuild... but it'll be slower going. Hopefully, the wife will be getting employed now that I can drive and that can help the cash flow.
I'll probably not be taking my annual trip to Las Vegas this year. The family is going to the beach, so I'll go with them this summer, but the rest of the year will be spent saving cash.
If all goes well... next year, my wife and I will be taking a week long pirate vacation.... sailing around the Caribbean on a tall masted sailing ship. Drinking rum and attacking deserted islands... all kinds of fun.
Not cheap... but I'm changing my outlook on life. I'm going to spice up vacations and try new things. So this year, nothing fancy... just save some cash... next year Pirate of the Caribbean.... the year after that... something new... maybe Europe for a couple of weeks.
But the real trade off is instead of killing myself for 50 weeks for 2 weeks of recovery, I'll do 50 weeks of a decent job and 2 weeks of fun.