June the first.

I've been told to start thinking about the future. In the context of looking at job listings, I shouldn't simply consider the job itself, but also, where the job might lead me in a year, two years, five years. That it shouldn't be a job for a job's sake. I should think about where it might lead. That could be a way to support my writing, or it could be something that could lead me somewhere else.

That it mostly shouldn't be something I'll want to leave after a year to find something else. Because I've had the bad fortune to pinball around for a good long time, which people don't know how to deal with, so they tend to pass on that sort of thing.

It's not easy to think about the future in a context I've never tried to apply it, and it's not easy to think about the future in the context where I live most days.