As anyone who's ever seen "Farscape" knows, those were John's words when the neural clone forced him to do some pretty despicable things. If you've never seen "Farscape", you need to use your particular period of unemployment to rectify that situation at once. If you have seen it, you'll know there are few things worse than what John Crichton felt at this very moment:
To be fair, I'm not quite in the same boat (spacecraft) as he was, but this much is official. I signed the waiver for my severance package, thus severing my ties (mostly) with the company where I've worked since 1985.
1985!! Let's look at what was going on in 1985:
- For one, no Farscape
- Or SyFy network
- Or widespread cable TV
- Or personal computers like the one I'm using now
- Or iPhones, iPods or any other "i"s
- Ronald Reagan, the guy whose birthday we commemorated--or cursed, depending on your point of view--was POTUS.
- Keira Knightly was born
- "Out of Africa" won best picture (I still haven't seen that one)
The list goes on the main point is that I worked at that company for a LONG DAMN TIME. I made life long friends and probably irritated a whole list of people. I had many disappointments and a few successes.
And now I have absolutely no idea if I did the right thing or not.
