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Hey, Subi Fam, how's it going?
I hope you are all having a good start to your year.
We're already two weeks in, pretty much.
I mean, we've got two more days to go for it to officially be two weeks, but I hope
it's all going well for everybody.
I hope you all had a great weekend and look forward to having a good week.
So not a whole lot to report this week as far as anything Subaru related for me, other
than I've driven my car a few times, but there's really not much going on around here.
I actually went to the high school where I like to cruise around the back after a
good rain.
I went there Sunday night and I was going to try to get back there and get in some mud
because it had rained, but they had the gates closed off.
Every once in a while, they'll have the gates closed off and then that ruins my fun.
I mean, what are they thinking?
So I missed an opportunity to go drive through some mud and it's like so limited here.
There's like very few spots where we can actually go and do anything fun.
I thought about going to cheeseburger loop, but it's like over an hour drive and there
was other things that I was doing.
And with it getting so dark early now, it's never really bothered me before.
Like usually I don't have an issue with it getting dark early and you know, it just
like it kind of makes me want to go to bed earlier, which is nice.
But this is like the first year that it's ever really bothered me because I don't
like running out of daylight so soon because sometimes I feel like I want to go out and do
something and then it's dark.
Not that I can't do anything in the dark, but you know, like if I want to go drive
out somewhere on a Saturday or a Sunday, I feel like I want to be back home before
it gets dark.
Really darkness can, you know, get to a lot of people and I know it usually does every
year.
But again, this was like the first year that it's really bothered me to wear like it's
just kind of annoying, but I hope that for those of you that are in climates where it
gets really cold, I know that it can get depressing at times.
Of course, I don't personally know that because I live in a climate where it was yesterday,
it was like in the low sixties, but overnight and I think on Saturday it was like in the
high forties, maybe low fifties, but the day before that it was like 80 something.
So we don't get those kind of climates here.
So for those of you that are in those situations, I hope that you're doing what you can
to stay sane and not let it bother you too much.
But again, I don't know what that's like, so I can't really speak to it.
I just know from what other people have told me.
So if you know somebody that is in a climate like that and that maybe they've told you
in the past that they struggle with the winter and being indoors all the time and
maybe being alone and being indoors, reach out to somebody and check in on them, see
how they're doing because while they may not be able to go out and meet up with other
people in person, I think it would really help out to know that somebody's thinking
about them and checking in on them.
So reach out to somebody if you know of somebody that, you know, could use it.
Also know that I haven't really been around on Instagram much, but I'm just I'm over
here trying to figure out the next steps in my life and figure out what I'm going
to do professionally for work and for income.
Thankfully, my severance has still been able to carry me some and I started getting
unemployment, which has really helped.
And then of course, huge shout out and thank you to my sponsors and patrons.
That has really, really helped out more than you know.
So for those of you that have joined Patreon to help support the podcast,
I really, really appreciate it.
It really does mean a lot.
And again, I'm thankful for the sponsors as well.
So between the sponsors and Patreon and unemployment, I'm still able to make it
through without a full time job.
And I've talked to the people from my old, old job about potentially going back
there because that actually would be a good spot to go back to.
But unfortunately, they're not able to hire right now.
It's not that they don't want to hire me back.
It's just they're not able to hire because they have to have enough work
to support bringing on new people.
And right now, they're kind of struggling with getting new work.
And I heard that they actually had some some work turned down that they weren't
able to get.
And so, you know, you have to have work to support the people.
And so, you know, I'm not really like hanging on to that, that I could,
you know, go back there and like, that's my focus.
But I'm because I'm trying to do other things.
Like I potentially don't want to go back to a full time job.
I want to be able to do maybe a few different side hustles to be able
to support me and and maintain that way.
And then I have a friend that said that his job is hiring and haven't
heard from them yet.
But, you know, it's possible that I will.
And but I'm also not like hanging on to that either.
And I did apply for a job this past week doing drafting for a home
builder here in the Houston area.
And we'll see what comes up with that.
Although it's like a pretty long drive to get there.
So I don't know if it's something that I would end up being able
to do logistically because of the long drive.
But we'll see how that goes.
You know, maybe there's the potential, if I would even get the
job or be offered the job to do it partly remote, because that
would be ideal because there's a lot of the like in this industry
doing drafting and stuff.
I don't see the need to be right there with people.
There's like, I've been able to work remote doing this stuff for
since like 2020.
But I'm going to be looking for other jobs too.
And I'm supposed to be meeting with somebody from the Texas
Workforce Commission here this week, I think, and talking
about job opportunities.
So what their job to do is like work with me, hear what I like
hear what my desires are, hear what my skills are and help
like build a plan to get me into another job.
Like that's what the part of their job is.
But for me, like I I've been working remote or at least
hybrid since 2020.
And I'd like to keep doing that.
I don't it's not that I don't want to drive somewhere.
It's just that Houston is so big and the traffic is so bad
that like if you end up working really far from home and it
even doesn't even necessarily have to be that far.
But let's say you're working at the office eight hours a day.
It might take you over an hour to get there in the morning
and then hour to get home over an hour to get home.
And then there's like actually eight hours of work, an hour
of lunch, that's nine hours.
So you're like 11 hours away from home.
And I've just right now I have a choice.
You know, I I have the option to pick and choose what I really
want to do and what I'm able to do.
And so that's kind of what I'm looking for.
And again, working on some side hustles and potentially
bringing that in as a full time income between a few different things.
I think that would be ideal.
And then if I can do that, then that frees up time to go to events.
You know, if I'm doing my own thing and working at my own pace
in my own schedule and working remote, doing whatever it is I'm doing,
that means that I can potentially go out to events because then
I don't have to worry about PTO.
That would be my ideal situation is a lot of times I haven't
been able to go to events because I've had to pick and choose.
And then I want to save my PTO for family time for holidays or whatever.
And so I don't go to events because I'm like, I just can't afford to take the PTO.
What if I don't have to worry about PTO?
That would be really nice.
So when somebody is like, hey, are you coming to Wicked Big Meet this year?
Yes, I can because I have the time.
That's the ideal situation.
Are you coming to Subifest, California again?
Yes, yes, I am.
So that's what I'm working towards.
And that's part of the reason why I haven't been around as much as
because I'm trying to figure out how to make things work on this end.
So it's just a process.
It's just trying to figure things out.
But I just know that I'm doing OK.
I'm not like sad and upset and stressed out and worried about
what's going to happen because I know it's all going to work out.
And getting laid off was actually one of the best things that's ever happened to me.
And I've I've actually been really, really happy lately.
And I get to spend more time with friends.
I get to spend more time with my son when he's over.
I get to spend more time with my daughter.
And it's been I know it's actually been nice.
So, you know, it's not like I'm not doing really well financially
the way that I was before, but I'm still able to pay my bills.
And that's what's important.
So as long as I can stay afloat, pay my bills, get things taken care of
that I need to get taken care of, I don't really have a lot of extra
or really anything extra, but I'm doing OK.
And I'm going to make it through this and I'll survive.
And because I'm just I'm not really worried about it.
I'm not scared and I know everything's going to work out.
So anyway, that's really all I have going on right now.
There's there's not a whole lot else that's going on.
And, you know, we've got other things coming up at some point.
I'm going to be recording my second episode of the year, episode 220 tonight.
And so that'll be fun to get that recorded.
And it'll be fun to put that out in a couple of weeks or no next week, next Monday.
So, yeah, I look forward to that episode.
That's going to it's going to be a good one
because it's somebody that I hadn't chatted with for a while.
But somebody has been on my list for a really long time.
And we were chatting the other night when I messaged him to let him know,
hey, your time is coming and we had some really good conversations.
So I'm really looking forward to talking to this person
and getting this person on the podcast.
And they are excited as well, which I like that.
I like that when somebody gets excited about being on the podcast.
So anyway, that's it. Hope you all have a wonderful week.
We'll see you next Monday for a regular episode.
And yeah, just take care, again, reach out to somebody
if you know that they might be struggling a little bit right now.
And have a good week. Much to be loved.
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