Getting away

  My wife and I need to get away from where we are. She needs it since the hell neighbours made our house somewhere she doesn't want to, actually can't, live. I want to so we can change our lives. Everything has become a trudge, there is no joy in the work I do, my wife hates being stuck where she is. It all pretty much gets us down.

  I'm not saying that we have a bad life, just that there are too many bad things that have happened over time it is hard to separate those memories from what is good about what we have. We had a nice dinner out last night at the local Mongolian bbq place but coming home seeing the dosshole next door that has been abandoned really brings up the crap that went on.

  If only I could find a way to take us away from all this and support us in what we want to do. There is a life we want to live but being able to live that life and afford what we need to live just from a basic food, housing and medication point of view is a hard balance to put together. We want to live somewhere out of the way but to do that we won't be able to get much of an income. Why I can't work mostly remotely with the way my job is I don't know but people still feel the need to be physically in the same place when they work. It is a hard thing to break people from doing, force them to adapt to new ways of working. This is especially true given the new tools and ways I work with my colleges. At least half of them are in different places in the country yet I'm stuck coming to this same office because of what I can only think of is tradition.

  It is the same short sighted, stuck in their ways, unimaginative leadership that sinks so many companies. They can't think of changing the way they do business or modifying what they do for things that are more efficient and productive. In the long run that leads to being more profitable and overall actually happy employees.

  So, if anybody out there can find a way for me to work at what I do while not being stuck where I am please speak up. We need to get away from where we are without destroying our lives in the process.