Today was my last day at work. 12 years of dedication and hard work, long hours, working nights since my first day on the job, has come to an end. Strange but its both a joyful departure and a stressful one at the same time. I’m glad to be done with work because I can now concentrate on school full time, but finding a new job will also be hard in todays market. That is one reason I need to finish school as quickly as possible. Switching form nights to days will also be a problem, because I am an insomniac and am usually up all night and most of the day. It will be hard to adjust to fit in with the rest of the “day walkers” out there in the world.
Right now I am just trying to relax and keep the blood pressure down. I’m in school full time, so hopefully by the time severance kicks in, I can finish up my classes and find a new job so I don’t have to spend all of my severance money. Unemployment is an option, but I will make less than half of what I make now for the entire month. There is just no way I can survive on such little money, so that is where the severance will come in handy, but I would much rather have a job by the time it kicks in.
My goal is to finish my MCSA and CCNA by January. I have my Net+ and CCENT, but the other two will be pretty much a requirement to get my foot in the door at a decent place paying close to what I was already making. Once I start at a new job, I will then finish up my other classes I want to take, like the Offsec Security courses, and possibly some CIW/web design and Adobe Flash classes to supplement my side job as a web designer.
My other goal, which i sprobably more important than anythign else, is to get healthy. My blood pressure is out fo control, and my weight is really a large factor in that problem. In the past year I have gained about 25 pounds, and I was already over weight to begin with. Im hoping to get down to around 180-190 pounds, but that will be easier said than done. I have about 80 pounds to lose at this point, and with the stress, it seems like that will only compund the issue.