The Lair

Notable events on the 1st of September, from Wikipedia.

Two years ago to this very day, I walked into my work place then and had this conversation with a cow-orker.
“Hey, you know … on the first of September, 1939: Nazi Germany began the Poland campaign and invaded. On the first of September, 2003.. I’m going to start pulling out of $work_place“.

Yeah. It seemed funny at the time. Funny-ironic, that is. The term exit strategy had not yet been coined, but it would have been appropriate for use.

The reason such milestones are important (well, to me, at least) is not so much a look at the past… as much as a way to gather my bearings. It’s been 2 years since I left reasonably interesting work (interspersed with long periods of near destructive boredom). Do I still think I made the right call ? And if I did, has it been worth it ? Milestones are useful to me for taking stock of the situation and two years seems about right for an assessment.