Someone once defined trauma to me as "anything that can initiate major change in one's life, not necessarily good or bad". I think this is a valuable description. I'm moving so this is major trauma. I hate packing up all my stuff and having to live in the realm of not really living in a place but having to live there while your stuff is not available. I'd rather someone just came to my house while I was at work and packed it up, moved it, and unpacked. Life would be much simpler. I'm sure there are people that do that but Do I really want to pay $1000 for it? Doubtful, I'm a cheapass too so the chances of that happening are slim.
I'm also taking a new job at work as a Product Manager. I'm excited about my new role although I've had to take a slight paycut for the pleasure of working in the group. I think it will be more exciting than just pitching solutions to customers, which is what I do now as a Sales Engineer (or Regional Technical Manager as we call it). I like facing customers but I feel there's no real strategy to what I do. I'm a tech geek just as I was when I was a consultant.
Now here's the downside, my commute increases (I currently work from home) so I'm really starting to wonder what the hell I was thinking. I'll like my job but the group is understaffed so I'll work much harder and I'll be wasting an hour going to work each way.
I have lots of trauma in my life. Now, it's not life-shattering, horrible trauma but its pretty painful having to go through all my crap and pack it up just to unpack 1 mile away from where I live now.
