i think it’s a good time for me to take a beat and a breathe. i passed a milestone yesterday that was essentially the last specific reason to hold on to my current employment situation, and it turned out as well as could be expected. my company was bought out by private equity last year, and so of course there was some belt tightening in the realm of pay raises and bonuses, but in general, i am grateful to work in a place that gives raises and bonuses at all. i don’t want my view of money to become so skewed by my small measure of success to the point that i undervalue the money that i’m given to do what i do. in fact, i think i need to appreciate it more, because there are so many people who will never reach the bar that i’ve jumped over.
i’ve updated my resume and put together a few cover letter templates, and i’ve even sent some out. no word back, yet, but that is to be expected since i’m applying for jobs that would represent a transition into a different side of the communications world than i’ve previously tread. first, i’m casting my net at those fish i’d most like to catch while i still have meat in the freezer. when that starts running thin, i’ll adjust my casting.
speaking of casting, last night i made some breakthroughs in that department on my fiction project. i was finally able to come up with some templates for the most important characters at the start of the story. truth be told, i have a massive list of roles left to fill, but i’m on the path and the destination is edging closer.
in the photo department, things have stalled. i have some edits to finish but photoshop is being finicky and i need to figure out why my skin editing template isn’t functioning properly now. i am sure there is some simple step that i’m skipping, but i haven’t had time to figure out what it is. that will have to be taken care of tonight so i can deliver the final edits in time for them to be useful.
in the meantime, i’ll continue to slog it out at work, comfortable in the knowledge that i have at most one more quarter of this job to do before it’s time to move on to whatever comes next.