Where do we go from here?

I feel like this should have been harder. This transition that is.

Having our first child, moving 300 miles away and starting a new job. It's not to say that it's been easy for me and my family, but it just hasn't been the massive earth shattering event that friends and now former coworkers made it out to be.

I'd like to think the ease of this transition has a lot to do with how I've consciously approached it. Rather than focus on the potential for stress, I rather have focused on what I could change. My old swimming coach used to advise me, "There's shit you can change, and there shit you can't. What's the point of focusing on the shit you can't change? Focus on changing what you can."

That's how I've tried to approach this transition. Now in my third month here, I think I've handled it pretty well.

This really has been a refreshing experience. It's evident now that I needed to get out and refresh my perspective. Working for your alma matter can be like working for family - especially when it's a small place and especially if you care about it as much as I do. Coworkers become less like colleagues and more like family. This can be a great thing, but at the same time, it can get a little too informal for a professional setting.

Looking at the way that I've attacked this new position with some fresh ideas of my own and a renewed energy level, I realize now how worn down I was. I had gotten tired of fighting the same battles with the same people and was in need of some fresh perspective.

I'm not one to believe in fate or serendipity or any of that other crap, but I am struck at how things seem to have happened for the right reasons at the right time.

The right time, of course, being immediately after the birth of our first child, obviously. I can't believe I didn't see that one coming.

There are still a few things that I haven't adjusted to yet. I'm busier than I have been in a while. It's been hard to carve out time to write, at least that's my excuse for the piss poor posts lately. One of these posts will be coherent.