{"id":241,"date":"2009-04-16T20:33:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T01:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.adam-jackson.net\/?p=241"},"modified":"2009-04-16T20:33:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T01:33:48","slug":"taking-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2009\/04\/16\/taking-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Taking a Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15009,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/home?status=@adamjackson%20I%20think&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Exactly one year ago, Laura and I began solidifying our idea of moving to San Francisco. It was on May 12th, 2008 that we made that decision. We touched down in San Francisco on May 31st which means that in 18 days, we sold our cars, all of our belongings and broke our lease in an apartment. I didn&#8217;t leave anything with family and we only had 4 suitcases when we moved to San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>A year is a long time and although it&#8217;s gone by very fast, I feel that I&#8217;ve been doing too much lately. I&#8217;ve been stretched very thin and I need to rethink things. Twitter, a service I fell in love with is growing larger and I have less faith in the community than I did before. My career helping companies market themselves online isn&#8217;t doing very well and my efforts to make enough money to get a larger apartment and actually buy a piece of furniture just isn&#8217;t working.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tired of the grind and I&#8217;m going to focus on two things. My day job and one single project I have on the side. I&#8217;ll add on more things soon but right now, it&#8217;s time to simplify, add value, lead and master what I have going on in life and what I want to do going forward. I recently found $400. No it wasn&#8217;t from taxes but from something else. I didn&#8217;t even tell Laura I found this. I&#8217;m going to do something with it even though I should be paying off credit cards.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s Adam going to do? I have no clue. I want to get away to somewhere different, somewhere with trees and somewhere that I can just be alone. Looking back, I haven&#8217;t had a single moment to myself since moving to San Francisco. Out my window, almost 100 cars and pedestrians pass by every minute and this is the same at home and work. At night I have Laura and she&#8217;s great but I&#8217;m not ever alone to talk out loud and work out things just myself.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s one thing I miss about living in Florida, it&#8217;s the quiet time and at night you can step outside to 10 acres of fields and see the stars without any cars or people to distract you. I miss that and I think it&#8217;s time to experience that again. Since I was 15 years old, I&#8217;ve never gone to spring break. Many of you that read my blog posts, you know how I feel about partying with a bunch of people and how I don&#8217;t find that appealing. Every year until I moved to San Francisco I would take Spring Break and spend 6 days in the woods with only what I needed. This has been a hard year and it&#8217;s been over a  year since I made that kind of trip.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking for suggestions and I think I&#8217;m just going to get a pup-tent, a sleeping bag and some beans\u00a0 &amp; franks and rough it for 2 nights. Where can I go? I need some suggestions. $400 doesn&#8217;t go very far considering I don&#8217;t have any camping gear or a car to get me where I want to go but I think this is the first step to realizing where I want to go next and what I need to do next.<\/p>\n<p>Things aren&#8217;t going to get any easier if I continue this downward spiral of working for a paycheck and taking on projects that ultimately don&#8217;t go anywhere. I&#8217;m feeling defeated, lost and confused and I want to take a fresh look at the world and that all starts with a mute button on the noise.<\/p>\n<p>Please leave suggestions below or click <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=@adamjackson%20I%20think\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this link to generate a Twitter reply<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exactly one year ago, Laura and I began solidifying our idea of moving to San Francisco. 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