With my reluctance to work for the Man growing stronger and stronger with each passing day, I better make darn sure my businesses-in-progress will work out for the long term before quitting my job. Because once I do, I don’t think I can go back to working in a corporate purgatory. Even now, my tolerance for corporate stupidity and red tape is dwindling. I mean the hoops I had to jump through this past week just to get a static IP address! I had to go through 6 layers of people and it took a whole week just for a stinking IP address. This was for a piece of lab equipment that I couldn’t do anything further without, so just the lost productivity alone cost at least $2,000. Unfortunately, I don’t think quitting my day job is a viable option for quite a while yet.

But sometimes I think my day job is too much of a safety net. My motivation and drive may kick into a higher gear if I don’t have this day job to fall back on. On bad days, I want to just quit and make a go at it on my own, but any way I look at it, that would be an emotional decision, not a rational or wise decision. And with marriage coming into the picture, I have more than myself to think of. So I have no immediate or even short term plans to quit my job. But I can dream, right?