WYFP (which stands for "What's Your Fucking Problem?") is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think might help. Everyone and all sorts of troubles are welcome. May we find peace and healing here. Won't you please share the joy of WYFP by recommending?
It's been a few weeks of minor annoyances. Beginning the cycle was a computer infection which turned out to be a backdoor trojan. Advice was to change my passwords, notify my bank, and reinstall Windows. Except I hadn't backed everything up recently. So first we cleaned the machine, I backed up, and then found out I needed to get reinstall disks from Dell. This whole ritual took about three weeks, and is still not over, because I cannot get this computer to connect to the internet wirelessly. But it's okay, because I have decided I don't care.
In the midst of all this, the weather turned (and stayed) gray, and I got a sinus infection. So I've been trying to move past all the annoyances. (Oh, and I completely forgot I was doing this diary until 7:30 pm.) I guess I'm something of a creature of habit--I don't really like all these things messing up the comfortable routine of my life.
Which brings me to my topic for tonight--knowing when it's time to get move on, and knowing when you've gotten too comfortable for your own good. See, for the last few years, I've had a job which (barely) keeps body and soul together, allows me to do something of what I want to do, and gives me time to work on the dissertation. But recently stuff has been going on to make the work environment tense, and I've been wondering if it's time to start thinking about moving on.
While I know it's not the best time to give up any job, I have to wonder at what point staying becomes a betrayal of self. And then I have to wonder how I pull myself out of the comfortable rut and make myself move. Because last night I talked to a friend who mentioned some possibilities which would definitely stretch me, and would require sizeable moves. And I realized the whole idea terrifies me.
So, how do you know when it's to move on--from a job, a town, a relationship, a friendship? How do you know when you've become too uncomfortable for your own good? And how do make yourself move? Most importantly, WYFP?