june 19 tcs

A recruiter called me about a job the other day. We had a nice chat, but when we got to the money part he offered me an hourly rate that that was actually lower than the rate I was getting ten years ago. I said as much on the call. I didn't say it like, "hey buddy, fuck this job." I said it to mean, "the future sure isn't all it was cracked up to be, huh. " For what it's worth, he was kind of chagrinned himself. I think my biggest problems with the present related to that it used to be the future. At some point in my life, I was looking forward to the time it is now. To the age I am now. Like anyone else, I had ideas of what the future would be like, but of course I couldn't know, and so, as guys like me are wont to do, I spent a lot of time thinking about what the future of me would be. Would I get married? Would I have kids? Would I own a home? Would I invent something? Would I publish a book? Would I live in Canada? Would I evade the FBI long enough to kiss Geena Davis and then…