Work Should be Fun

I feel like complaining: I'm so bored... I hate staying at home and being on Worker's Compensation - it sucks! Stupid shoulder/bicep/pinched nerve...injuries are stupid. Newsflash: waitressing is bad for your body!

I'm hoping to return to work the first week of April bartending part time. Not that bartending is exactly easy on your shoulders (when you pour drinks, the counter they sit on is quite high), but hopefully by then I won't have any muscle spasms and will be able to do my job.

I'm just so antsy about everything again...maybe because I've been at home too long and have had time to think about things, or I have a mild case of ADD. I keep thinking how the hell I'll continue to make a living 5 years from now having loads of fun and making money, without getting stuck in the rat race; 9-5 is something I want to avoid - been there, done that.***

So I'm thinking I should do something unconventional again and like work someplace close to some (preferably warm) world class flying site that has a gondola running up it, so that I can fly all day. I should bartend in a foreign country in the evenings, and fly during the day. How sweet would that be? But then you start picking apart your own crazy ideas, and you quickly realize that it would be more challenging to do something like that then first appears; working visas, club connections, language barriers, employment availability, accommodations - ugh, why can't these things be simpler?

Maybe I should just screw the whole working for somebody else thing, and get my internet shit together. I was recently transferred ownership of a really neat website (market research related of course) that I hope to turn into something really big. A friend of mine is going to do all the programming while I take care of the business and revenue generation portion of it. It's great to have a new project, but these things take time of course.

You know, if I can pull this thing off, all I'd need is a laptop with me, and I could travel the world, sit on launch, and type away. Ok, maybe there'd be no wi-fi connection up there, but you get my point. Or if the stupid markets wouldn't be so damn volatile, I could experiment with day trading again. Lots of options if you can figure out how to make money with just a computer and an internet hookup.

Auuuggghhh, I don't know what the hell I'm doing. I've made a choice to sacrifice security for freedom, but that's exactly what causes so much instability in my life...but instability is exciting!

To me, paragliding is probably such an attractive sport because it is so unconventional, and you can mould it so many different ways. It's not a sport like soccer where you're bound by rules that you simply play within. Paragliding is like biking - you see how far you can take your piece of equipment, testing the limits of it and yourself along the way.

Anyway, I'm blabbing on about nothing again. I guess this head-bashing-against-the-wall boredom is just getting the best of me right now. Lesson learned: when something hurts at work, tell someone, and see a doctor before you end up missing work because you're especially good at ignoring your body and thought things were "fine".

***I talked to a coworker on the phone today about how a benefit of bartending is that it allows you to whip lemon wedges at people and it looks really funny when it rebounds off their heads (yeah yeah, so what if I'm immature?) Anyway, having a jar of lemon wedges on your desk at your cubicle and throwing them at passers-by would probably be a bit too conspicuous in an office setting - I think I should stay away until I loose my wacky sense of humour.