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I left my old work without the intention of returning, though at the time, I thought I was going to stick with school and go straight through for the PhD.<\/p>\n

Ha ha!<\/p>\n

I should have known better; by the time I actually left work, I was already starting to feel the massive burnout, and the fall semester of 03, where I stupidly took 5 classes when I didn’t really need to, turned it into an especially acute case. In the spring, I signed up for 3 classes and ended up dropping one. One of the two classes I kept was a course in which the requirement was ‘show up’. Homework was optional.<\/p>\n

The other was my last requirement for graduation: the project. That got finished, at the last possible minute, thanks in part to J and Bob.<\/p>\n

And so school was then done. I couldn’t face going back again for more, and had no real clue what I would have done for a thesis anyway. Thus began a somewhat unenthusiastic search for work. The burnout left me lethargic and apathetic, much as it had after my first brush with graduate school in the summer of 99.<\/p>\n

But things were different now; Bob was not at a good job, and has, in fact, spent most of the summer driving himself insane by working 70 hour weeks at two jobs that are, bluntly, not good enough for him. I told myself that I had until mid-August to come up with something, and after that, I would have to get some kind of position so that he could drop one of his.<\/p>\n

My old boss emailed me several weeks ago, and I put off replying to her. I knew from other people that they had never hired anyone to replace me, and something about her email made me think that if I asked, I could probably go back. But… I wasn’t sure I really wanted to go back. The pay is not great and the job is a dead end.<\/p>\n

But in the end, it’s better paying and better than retail. So I finally emailed her back, and will be starting there next Tuesday for an amount of time that at present is indeterminate.<\/p>\n

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