So my last day at work is due to be Monday 28th February. There it is. Confirmed.
The question; should I have handed in my notice prior to having obtained an alternative position, is a mute one. The decision is taken, the letter handed in.
The only question worth asking is; what’s next?
I suppose I have four options really.
1. Get another job, anything really, just to pay my way. But, what would be the point in that? The whole reason I am making this choice is because I have cast aside a career I had no interest in, why then follow that up with another job that does not satisfy me ei-ther?
2. Take an internship doing something truly interesting. Something that sparks my imagination and something that will require me to use the talents I have. Sounds great but it is cash dependant and whilst I don’t see an immediate problem there (I have a little put away) it is not sustainable.
3. Travel and teach. I have been doing a little research online and it seems as though I could teach English abroad for a while, if I wanted. If I did that it would pay for my ticket out there and keep me in paid work whilst I experience something of a different culture, from there I could go on a travel a bit more with the cash I have put away having earned some interest on it. Then when I came back to Blighty I’d have something to show for the couple of years I’d been away.
4. Do the fabled PhD. Something which has been on the cards to do, at some point, for a couple of years now. Question is how would I do it? Part time? Full time? Presumably research based? What about living, course and incidental costs? Would have the ability to finish it?
The nice thing about the next fourteen weeks is that I have plenty of questions, the not so nice thing is that I am not sure that I have the answers.
