It's done.<\/p>\n
No, not the evil plan. (And please<\/i>, people — stop asking me about my evil plan!)<\/p>\n
I submitted my letter of resignation to EB Games today.<\/p>\n
No, it wasn't profanity laced. I didn't even take the opportunity to castigate the company for its insane decisions this past year. There's no reason to burn bridges.<\/p>\n
I'm sad, honestly. The truth of the matter is that, deep down, I loved working for EB Games. I loved the customers I worked with every day.<\/p>\n
But I didn't love the time commitment that the job had become. My workweek crept upward from fifty hours a week to sixty-plus, and my workload increased, too. I thought back recently to last fall when Marco Palmieri asked me if I'd have the time in the Thanksgiving-Christmas window to write a short story, and I would never have thought I would have more time and energy then<\/i> than I do now.<\/p>\n
Time, I wrote in my letter of resignation, isn't a luxury.<\/p>\n
So, what next?<\/p>\n
Well, pack the house, obviously. Move to Baltimore. Find a job. And pretty much in that order.<\/p>\n
I have two interviews lined up for when I get there.<\/p>\n
I feel in some ways that I've jumped off a cliff with a bungie cord attached to my waist, only I'm not sure if it's anchored at the top. It's scary.<\/p>\n
But I'll make it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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