If I had to describe my professional life right now, I guess that I could say that I was a consultant or a contractor. I do short contract work with several different groups,such as translating official documents into French, designing a handbook for an NGO in Liberia, editing for a Swiss Foreign Policy magazine.... and it's fun, the variety is good and I learn a lot. But there is still a large part of me that is ready for stability of a prescribed role, and a schedule that is predictable. I'm definitely not the world's greatest job searcher, so this has been humbling, but it is also good.
I'm preparing to move at the end of this month, so I've begun packing up my bookshelves - and it's been great to discover old books that I want to read and even to flip through old journals... to see both the progress and growth and the sameness and 'themes' in my life.
Seasons. The change comes slowly, like the crocus' just beginning to peak through the soil... but each one has its joys and its challenges.
