01 April 2011

I Quit!

While I was waiting for my last wave yesterday, forced to leave the water earlier than I wanted by a mid-morning work meeting, I decided I'd had enough. Enough of work interfering with what's really important: surfing. Enough of being stuck inside in a gray-walled cubicle with a dirty window on beautiful sunny days. Enough of being on call at all hours of the day and night, like some sort of spacecraft doctor, but not getting paid like one.

So I quit, and we're outta here.Our house is underwater so the bank can have it. We've got some money saved up, so when we go to Kauai next month for vacation, we're going to rip up our return tickets (figuratively since they're electronic). We'll get a tent and camp on the beach. Sure, we'll have to smuggle our cats into the state like contraband and it may be a little crowded with the five of us in one tent plus three surfboards, but just think of the warm water waves right outside the flap. Aloha, pura vida and stoke!

5 comments:

  1. Nobody fell for it. I'd call that an April Fool gazumping.

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  2. Cynthia, while you are there whoever you are, and need some work, look me up. I ran a hotel computer maintenance consultancy for surf tourism industry for most of the world's surf resorts from Indonesia, Hawaii to Costa Rica. Pretty easy job, updating web sites (we got a designers, just updates), fixing WiFi antenna, Tweeting and Blogging on behalf of the hotel for surf conditions and not, and removing Geckos and spiders stuck in router fans, etc. Very easy money, we do them all at night.

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  3. Hmm, I guess at least one person fell for my April Fools joke ;)

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  4. That does sound enticing though, Manabu, especially the nighttime gecko chasing. So why aren't you over there doing it?

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  5. Maybe it's his April Fool double-blind retort. To be honest SG, I NEARLY fell for it! :) But then I am incredibly gullible.

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