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Re: Job search
Date: 2025-01-13 09:29 pm (UTC)Thank you so much for doing this. Apologies for taking so long to get back to you. I am just recovering from the worst two weeks of acute bronchitis that I have ever had, EVER. Didn't have the bandwidth to absorb this information well and to comment on it.
That said-- now that I've had time to ruminate on this a bit, I will tell you that my first response was "I KNEW you were going to say that". [You might be a Runes idiot savant or something!]. I was not in any way surprised by the reading. I am definitely conflicted about returning to my career. It is lucrative, but supports the pharmaceutical industry, which is quite tedious. It's something I wanted to do for only 3 years however, as a last hurrah, so that I can get my mortgage paid off as expediently as possible.
So I'm wondering if you have any thoughts, based on what you know about runes and divination, about whether I could make this work but getting my will as undivided as possible. Gird my loins so to speak, suck it up and just get on with it, knowing that when the 3 years is over I can move on to other things that would be more interesting. I really do not want to be getting involved with another endeavour just now, because the financial goal is critical and will likely take too long with another route which would probably be less financially viable.
With respect to the generosity piece, I'm wondering if this is more about literal generosity in terms of giving money away or is it more about being more grateful for what I already have (and in the context of the LA fires I'm EXCEPTIONALLY grateful for what I have!!).
Thanks for letting me know about the cow/fee word etymology. I come from a very 'wordy' family-- we love knowing these things, so that was an interesting piece of trivia.
Finally, I read your essay about Texas recently, even though I know you wrote it awhile ago. I have a soft spot in my heart for Texas. I lived in Dallas a few decades ago and finished my undergrad at UT-Dallas; I'm a longhorn-- though I saw a picture of a longhorn recently; those poor creatures-- how dreadful for them to carry those ginormous horns!! egads and gadzooks!
Thank you again for your kind generosity!
MJ