08-30-2010, 01:20 PM
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Originally posted by Susan
This is probably unwise on my part...I have read bits and pieces of this 11 page thread..I am going to hang my @ss out here because it's what I do best.
Every single day I sit in my high stress IT world and dream about every one of you living my dream. I am too chicken **** to walk.
I don't smoke the bud because of my job. Can't chunk 75k a year over what nature provided. A couple of weekends ago I worked 9 p.m. to 11:30 a.m. processing files on an AIX server. Too much stress...
Susan,
The first few sentences of your post could have been a fairly close description of me two years ago.
I wasn't in IT, but was (still am) in a high tech industry (Lots of stress). Got laid off with most of my department right before my 25 year anniversary with the same company...had three job offers within a week and was employed again. (VERY grateful for that!). Kane is self employed and already had the freedom to live anywhere. I was the one 'trapped' by my job. My new company lets people in my department work part time, and they can live where they want. After selling my house and whatever belongings we had that we didn't want to ship here, we moved to Puna so we could start building our house on our property.
As for the vandalized street sign...The old street sign was stolen. There's been a sign there for years. We offered to buy a new sign and supply materials to install it. It was vandalized twice within two weeks. Our neighbors were thankful for us cleaning the vandalized signs. We are on very good terms with all of our neighbors. We know some grow and/or smoke pot (we don't care about that).
I have lurked on here for over a year, and have seen a definite downward shift in the level of civility in certain threads.
I for one appreciate you hanging your @ss out there with your post. I hope you make it over here soon.
Wahine
Wahine
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