I just wrote this entry and then lost it. Should I take that as a sign? An anti-change sign? Uh oh. Anyway, on to the retyped, rehashed entry:
I’ve been listening to Jack Johnson’s new album pretty much non-stop since it came out last week. I love how mellow his songs are; they just make me feel calm. And calmness is what I need these days.
I feel like I’m on the verge of something new, that the time is right for me to make a move. A career move. That doesn’t necessarily mean leaving the aerospace industry, but it does mean making a change. There are four options available to me at the moment, not including the default option of simply staying in my current job. Each, of course, has its own set of positives and negatives. Three would involve aerospace; one wouldn’t. Two would involve engineering; two wouldn’t. One means staying in Houston, but moving to a different job; one is going to the International Space University and spending a year in France before returning to Houston and my current job for three years; the other two mean moving elsewhere.
Of course none of these options are a given. There are applications to fill out and people to talk to and recommendations to get and interviews to do, and that process will almost certainly whittle down the list.
But the time seems right for a change. And if I’m going to make one, I want to make the right choice.
The problem is that I am scared of big changes.
Come to Seattle…