Battle of the Cliches'.

For my current situation, many cliches can be used fairly accurately. "What comes around goes around."  "A roling stone gathers no moss." "What goes up must come down." "Don't bite the hand that feeds you." ""Why ask why?"

Let me explain a little. About two years ago my wife got a dream job offer. We were living in my hometown, just bought a house 2 years prior and I had a job that I loved.  I worked at a blood bank in charge of the Hospital Services department. I was good at the ajob and it gave me a sense of satisfaction knowing that I was helping to provide a valuable service to the community. This dream job that my wife was offered would require us to move. All in all, I knew it was the best thing for the family despite al the things that were going well for us in our curent situation, so I somewhat reluctantly agreed that she should take the job.

We moved about 200 miles away and my wife loves her job still. For several reasons, I wasn't able to get hired at the hospital in this town and I ended up taking a job at a local factory that made hydraulic couplings. I worked in the office with the enginering department doing inventory management and production control. It was a boring job for a crooked company that offered no sense of  satisfaction.

3 weeks ago  I was let go from that job (it was a long time in the works ).  I looked and looked for some other good job, but every interview I had I felt like I had the scarlett letter "T" painted on my forhead since I was terminated from my last job.  I needed a job quick since the bills were piling up, and the first place that offered me a job was...Target. TARGET???!!  I'm working at friggin Target! I can't believe this. I'm 35 and college educated and I'm working at Target for 8 frickin dollars an hour.!!! Oh how that mighty have fallen. Well, there's another cliche' that works too.

I guess there is a bright side to all of this...discontentment. Being discontent is probably a good thing. It makes us think and forces us to take a "personal inventory" and my Counselor friend would say. Through this discontentment Ihave decided to make a few changes. I am going to start my own business and I'm working on setting goals in order to make that happen. I have been thinking about doing this for quite some time, but never realy had the proper motivation until now. So, I guess that every cloud does have a silver lining.   Oh look, another cliche'.