Hello Again: The Journey

Oh my.  This does still exist.  How wonderful.

If you look back to October 2011, I began this blog as a way to chart my life's path as I approached age thirty.

Now, more than halfway through my time as a thirty year-old, I finally have something well worth recording on here and feel that this blog will prove an excellent tool to document my life as I transform into what (I hope) will become a self-sustaining, functioning adult.  Happily, the idea behind and the intended function of this blog have coalesced.

Today, at 11:57 a.m., after six and a half years of employment, I resigned my teaching position at Youngstown State University.  No longer is the idea of leaving higher education and pursuing "real" employment theoretical.  Instead, the search begins in earnest for that elusive job that will, I hope, turn into a career.

The path to this moment has not been easy.  Truly, I've contemplated leaving my job for a couple years now.  But the moment when I could just leap into the proverbial abyss never seemed to arrive.  In short, I don't think I believed I could do it.

Now, with Matt employed in a steady and fruitful way, his ability to support me in both moral and (though I'd rather avoid it as much as possible) financial ways helped me to come to the conclusion, as much as I'd known it for years, that it's time to move on.

My mother, though she has yet to meet Matt, knows of his existence and, well, will have to get around to dealing with him as a fixture in my life sooner than later.

I thank you for taking the time out to be with me here.  So many of you have, for so long, been a part of my life as I knew it.  Now, as I forge what my life is to become, I count on your friendship, support, prayers, and wishes as we all move into this brave, scary new world.

All the best,

Bill