A Combination of Things

New Job

I got a new job so my last day at Gartner is tomorrow. My ultimate goal is to make sure no one but my boss knows that I am leaving and slip away quietly avoiding all of the annoying goodbyes from people that i dont even like. I cant even begin to imagine what any of them would write in a card. “Tom good luck at your new job. May your evil looks stay deliciously evil and may your sighs and groans of anger and dismay forever ring within the halls of this corporate rat trap. Keep in touch.” Maybe i will tell people. that card sounds hilarious. I will now be a manager at the Yale Bookstore. They are going to start me off managing the cafe, which is cool because i like coffee more than is probably healthy. Hopefully if a job in the actual bookstore opens up i will be primed to swoop in and take it. I suppose this is not my ideal job. One of the things is have learned while on this frantic I-need-to-get-out-of-Gartner-as-soon-as-humanly-possible-before-I-throw-my-company-issued-computer-out-the-window job search, is that i dont think i have a realistic ideal job. My ideal job is floating somewhere in the imaginary matter of my brain and thats cool i guess. However i know that i can be happy back working for the Barnes. If B Dalton hadnt closed i would still working there. I enjoy the atmosphere of a bookstore, how bookstores look and smell. It will be nice to experience that everyday instead of what i go through now which makes me want to vomit. I have never been able to adjust to Gartners line of work and the lifestyle that it tended to breed in people. I suppose its a character flaw and i am sorry for that but i just could never adjust. But things just got a little better today. I will let everyone know on Monday if things perhaps will start to get a lot better.

Tags: Barnes and Noble, i havent written in a while and the effort is making me, Yale