How To Drop Out Of Society

[Dark Black]

Interesting little thread this - particularly since a couple of months ago, after 17 odd years in IT I had enough, chucked the well paid permie role and left.

The last two months have been the best for a very long time - till last week when I decided perhaps a contract might be a good idea for a while, popped the CV up on one of the websites and was surprised that the phone didnt stop ringing all week. I ended up going along to an interview (still not sure why), didnt really try hard but got offered the gig at a good rate. I'm due to start next week checks permitting but TBH I'm really not sure it's something I want to be doing anymore...

So dropping out - a wonderful idea but I really not sure what to do next!!!

[gingerjedi]

The trouble is it becomes the norm and you get used to the money very quickly, I am dreading the day this gravy train finally pulls up and I have to get off and step back into the real world!

I'm hoping it will never happen but to be on the safe side I am making as much hay as I can whilst the sun is shining so the landing won't be so harsh

[Xenophon]

Play World of Warcraft 24/7.

[oloks]

Get a dark tan and a banana boat to England.

what a comment...& why can't some people always see beyond colour in all their discussions.

[gingerjedi]

Play World of Warcraft 24/7.

I don't play that but I do play a lot of games online, I spend more time talking to people I have never met than I do my own friends these days, what with the wife being pregnant and all my mates having babies recently traditional socialising seems to have dried up recently.

[Buffoon]

Get a dark tan and a banana boat to England.

I rather fancy making the reverse trip.

[lukemg]

Read a brilliant book by an english bloke who joined the legion. Apparently regime was brutal and they had to learn loads of songs in french which were a nightmare. Some of the on and off-duty tales were good though.
Too tough for my desk-riding, used to my comforts ass I fear.

[rootsnall]

Interesting little thread this - particularly since a couple of months ago, after 17 odd years in IT I had enough, chucked the well paid permie role and left.

The last two months have been the best for a very long time - till last week when I decided perhaps a contract might be a good idea for a while, popped the CV up on one of the websites and was surprised that the phone didnt stop ringing all week. I ended up going along to an interview (still not sure why), didnt really try hard but got offered the gig at a good rate. I'm due to start next week checks permitting but TBH I'm really not sure it's something I want to be doing anymore...

So dropping out - a wonderful idea but I really not sure what to do next!!!

You've probably not had a long enough break yet !? I have been dropping out and dropping back in for about the same time as you have been in the game. Sometimes it takes 6 months before I can drum up enough 'enthusiasm' to get the CV out again. There aren't many easier and more flexible ways of earning a living so I'd hang on in there in one form or another.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Hope on the Bus - Gus
Make a new plan - Stan
Drop of the Quai - Lee

And set yourself - Free

[wendigo100]

The guy Desmond on "Lost" tried that & look what happened to him...

I don't watch Lost. What happened to Desmond?