So….. where do we find ourselves….

“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.”
— Yousuf Karsh

We have an expression in our household. “Here’s an AFOG” : an opportunity for *** growth, and I have a good example suddenly arriving. After 11 years in a wonderfully cushy tech job, it suddenly vaporised when the company was (virtually) dissolved by its multinational parent.

It wasn’t entirely unexpected: we’d been underfunded sick for a while. To be sure I’d done some preparation for the inevitable, but now, sitting at home on a Monday morning (last day was on Friday) it all feels a bit feeble and under-cooked. But now, I have to get serious.

So towards that end, this. Where ‘this’ is me trying to make sense of my current situation, and planning a sensible way out. I’m all too aware of the possibility of self delusion, so I’m going to talk to myself (wait, what?) in the hope that an ordered, well thought through discussion (even if only with myself) will be superior to a random set of swirling thoughts and panic.