Okay so you’re probably sick of me talking about losing my job. I know I am. But for me, it’s every day’s news. Until the earthquake comes, this is the big thing that happens to me each morning.

But there is an underlying barbed question which keeps poking through this miasma: What am I supposed to be doing with my life? What should I be doing? A job is one thing, but it’s not my calling, my purpose. Is this an opportunity?

I’ll admit that as I get older I struggle with this more and more. I guess it’s a mid life crisis thing. When I was younger it was easy- I did what I wanted when I wanted for reasons that made perfect sense.
Now, I question it all. I look at the return on various actions. Is it worth it? Is it more pain than gain? Is there any gain at all? But you know now I almost never do what I want to do.

So I’ve decided today to try something new. I don’t know where losing my employment is going to...