Job or no job, that is the question
Feb. 3rd, 2026 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nosrednaydujI have done two job search related activities this week so far; need to do three to qualify for unemployment. Will I do another? I don't know. Last week one of my activities was joining monster.com and letting it rewrite my resume. Maybe it's actually better. Mostly it was reformatting; I did not let its AI do anything significant. I've also been having discussions with my representative at fidelity, who wants to help me invest my 401(k) (now IRA) for my retirement, and had me do a bunch of budgeting things to figure out whether retirement is appropriate. Seems so. (This, however, is not a qualifying job search activity.)
Today I spent "being retired": I went skiing at the local bump, which took up all of the afternoon. It was really great, because there's been all this natural snow, and I waited until it was 35°. I got there right at opening (1 PM) and the main run was beautifully groomed, and there weren't many people yet, so it was "four minutes up, two minutes down" for quite a while. At some point ski clubs and so forth started coming in so it got more populated, but never any significant line. I decided that I was tired around 3:20. Really it was "tired of there only really being one run".
Today I spent "being retired": I went skiing at the local bump, which took up all of the afternoon. It was really great, because there's been all this natural snow, and I waited until it was 35°. I got there right at opening (1 PM) and the main run was beautifully groomed, and there weren't many people yet, so it was "four minutes up, two minutes down" for quite a while. At some point ski clubs and so forth started coming in so it got more populated, but never any significant line. I decided that I was tired around 3:20. Really it was "tired of there only really being one run".
