Major life changes

Lately there have been quite a few major changes in my life.

Career. Last year, I decided I wanted to change careers. Although I enjoyed some aspects of my job, there were others I didn’t like as much and after doing it for 10 years, I felt like it was time for a change. I want to feel I am making a more direct contribution – that I am helping to actually create things that it some tiny way, make people’s lives a little bit easier. And I also wanted to travel. So my intention was to head to the UK and get a development job. Right now, I’ve achieved the first, but not the second. I have a 6 month part-time contract as a Web Developer. In the other two days a week, I would like to pick up some freelance development & design work.

Love. As you can see in the last dozen posts on this blog, I spent a month in India with Gopal. I not only had the most amazing time there, but I had a wonderful time with him. Despite the fact that we have grown up in completely different cultures and surroundings, we have many things in common and have similar values and outlooks. I used to be pretty sure what I was looking for in an ideal partner was too diverse, too complex to ever find in just one person, but I’m glad to find out I was wrong. We are planning to get married at the end of the year.

Location. Although I’m currently still in the same place in Auckland, once Gopal and I are married, our plan is to live in India for a while, before eventually heading on to the UK and Europe. During the next 6 months, I need to eventually get rid of almost all of my possessions here and be ready to travel. The timelines for getting to the UK are longer than I had originally planned, but when I left my lecturer job and decided to travel, I wanted to have some adventures, and I’m pretty sure that’s what I’m going to get.