There is a lot to be said for power-cycling a misbehaving system.
Remove the juice, wait, add juice and many-a-system-issue will disappear in a puff of imaginary smoke. Then there is the human body and mind. Which in many ways responds in the same manner. Swap juice with stress and effort, and the same results can be observed.
In a little under two weeks, I will be power-cycling. Two weeks of down-time to simply “live” without the every-day work stresses or worries will be bliss.
There are things I need to do. I need to empower myself to stop. Now, that may sound like entirely existential bull-shit but in a way it’s true. We all have the power to stop the fair-ground ride and to step away from the machine.
The hard part is realising that the ride is self managed and it’s all too easy to bring “some stuff” home to do during the break. Which makes a mockery of the entire point of stopping in the first place.
I won’t actually stop, of course. No one really does. But instead of working for “the man”, I’ll be working on personal projects.. and a great deal of effort will go into doing very little. Apart from perhaps following up on potential variables and options for a move back to New Zealand.
Which, aside from Japan, is probably one of the single most amazing places one might chose to work. Not that I have lived or worked in Japan, but I have it on good authority that it is a damn fine place to live, doubly so outside of the major centres.
Which, perhaps, is a round-a-bout way of saying that I am coming to a fork in the road, and not just in the blogging sense. Change should be embraced — the tricky part is working out just quite how to embrace it best.
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Brendan Borlase is a Systems and Network Administrator living in Adelaide, Australia, having lived, worked and breathed Information Technology for over 12 years. Learn more.
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