Rick Rambles – A blog

Unemployment. The days go very quickly. I look for a job. I try to learn French, I study for the CISSP test. I eat. I go to coffee shops. I hang out on facebook.
People say that they wish that they could do what I am doing. Everyone has the power to do what I am doing. All they have to do is quit their jobs. People tell me that they cannot quit their jobs. Why not? What are people afraid of? I think part of it is that the grass is always greener. The other thing is responsibilities. Am I irresponsible? I would have to go with a qualified yes. I am currently not in debt. Ok, I owe on my house and car. The house is worth much more then I owe (http://realtor.com tells me that) and the car… (http://cars.com) well it’s close. What other responsibilities do I have??? My children… At this point I told them all that I would pay for ½ of their colleges. I am keeping that commitment. Other then that the rest is gravy. My expensive are low and I don’t really care too much about the future or retirement.
I think that is the key. Worrying about the future. Well, I am not worried about the future. Do you know why? Well the things that you worry about don’t happen. It’s the unexpected things that happen on a boring Tuesday. I firmly believe that I will be just fine in every way. I will be happy and financially secure… somehow. The universe of happy thoughts will bring fortune my way. Am I crazy? Well, who is not?
I am going to enjoy this time in my life as much as I can. I am going to enjoy the time off and I am going to study languages and I am going to travel and I am going to wait for that awesome opportunity to fall gently in my lap. And when it does I will seize it. There is no such thing as a lost opportunity…there is always someone to capitalize on it.
Now, what do I want for the future? The underlying want is happiness for me (always first, sorry world; not) and for the ones I love. The rest of you people, good luck. What will make me happy? First and foremost is money. Yup, there it is, I like money. Why you ask, well money is security. Now the real question is how much money do I want and much more importantly is how hard do I want to work for it. I know for a fact that if I really worked at it. I mean really worked at it forsaking all else I could be pretty rich. Now the problem is that I really don’t want to work that hard… so I settle for well off. How well of. Well starting off as a poor black boy, well of is not that rich. Working my last gig, I was comfortable. Now unemployed, not so much. Enough of that for now.
What am I going to do for work? As I said I will wait for the opportunity to fall into my lap, but I may help it a least a little. I will apply for the ultimate job of caretaker of the island on the Great barrier reef. If I get it I will be set for a year, and then who know what. I think I will just image that for a while. I may apply for a job in New Zealand too… the great barrier reef job just might… we will have to see.

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