Temporary Duty

If you are one of my loyal readers (I am pretty sure there are a few of you), you know that for the last year or so I have been up to my neck overseeing the web communication activities of my friend, Steve Sjogren. Steve is starting a church in the Tampa area of Florida next year and that’s one of the reasons Loretta, Ben and I moved down there last year.

One of the things I neglected to do was make arrangements for earning a living in Florida! 🙂 I am a licensed lawyer in California and have done that kind of work for several years to finance my extracurricular activities. When I resigned my job and moved to Florida full-time last October I still had not been able to make application to take the Bar examination and practice law in Florida.

One thing has lead to another and I have had to curtail my Sjogren activities and take a temporary job doing legal work in California. Luckily I was able to bum an airline ticket off my brother, and borrow some money from friends to tide us over until I can get my first healthy paycheck in my new job. The upside is that I have a flexible job that will pay me regular money. The downside, I have to be away from Loretta and Ben for weeks at a time.

This is a bad analogy, but I think I have a glimpse of how those men and women who are in the military on temporary duty around the world must feel when they are separated from their family. Trust me, it is not very good. Luckily I have a great guy to hand off a lot of my previous activities to, his name is Scott Bane and keep an eye on him he is an up and comer.