Patience

I keep thinking that all it takes is one.  One job, one company that can find enough contract work for me.  It has been two years now, and I still have not found that one.  I thought I had last year, but that stopped as suddenly as it started, ended at Thanksgiving and has not started up again.  I have tried other places, heard from recruiters, sent emails reminding people that I am still around, but things are quiet right now.

During the last 20 months since I left Farmers, I have worked about 9 months total.  While that sounds pretty bad, the practical consequences are that I will have to work a year at the end of my work life that I would otherwise have been retired.  Not the worst thing in the world, but then that is one year so far.  It is a little hard to say how the next 20 months will go.

Meanwhile, I have to use savings that I was hoping not to touch for several years.  At the rate things are going, that money will run out in about four years, so we are a long way from being homeless.  If we end up homeless, we have equity in our home that will last another three years or so.  I guess I think something positive will happen before then.

Still looking for that one.  It's hard to be patient.