Today marks the 30-day point to graduation.
And, I'm still not excited. I suspect I will be, at some point—but not yet.
In other news, my relocation work has begun. I'm having a very difficult time organizing my schedule between graduation and my first day of work (which was agreed upon when I signed my offer letter back in January). Right now, I have two weeks between May 14th and 30th to get myself, Aleph, and my shit to Seattle.
Thankfully, my parents are finishing the paperwork to buy a house in Rio Rancho. This should make the logistics significantly simpler, as I can be living up north while I arrange the final move out of Socorro. It's a real bitch to do this sort of thing on the fly, and I'd hate to fly out of town on the same day as I'm supervising the movers.
The legal reality is setting in, too, as I sign over a large portion of my savings to an attorney to review and approve my employment contract. Bummer.
Most importantly, though, I'm trying to mentally transition from being a fulltime student. Ignoring summers, this will be the first time that I haven't had significant ongoing academic obligations. Although I'm hoping to enroll immediately at UW to continue, specifically, my language work, I'm unsure how I'm going to be able to handle not having something arbitrary and contrived to tool on all day long.
On second thought, I'm entering the corporate machine. Arbitrary and contrived may very well be the name of the game.
Why do you have to sign over your savings when accepting this job ?
Mostly because I need to retain legal counsel to review all my paperwork for me. The overwhelming advice I've been given so far by people in the industry and other attorneys is that it's ludicrously irresponsible to sign an employment contract without negotiation or, at the very least, review.
Unfortunately, it's not cheap.