My head hurts

The problem with having options is knowing which one to take. As a child I hated the choose your own adventure books. I always wanted to know what the consequences of my choice were before I made it. To save myself the pain of making the wrong choice I'd look ahead and work out which one appealed most and then take that path. In so doing the surprise was taken out of everything.

I wish now, like in childhood, I could just skip ahead and find out which road leads me not into the path of a two headed gorgon but to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Unfortunately life isn't like that and I must instead make my choices on the basis of the information available to me.

Today my head was filled with information about job hunting. As part of my redundancy package my employer offers the services of an outplacement company. Not one to turn down an opportunity I'm using the services to get my CV and job hunting skills up to scratch before I go off into the wilds. My aim is to have all my stuff sorted so that when I do decide to come back into the world of employment I can go straight into it.

My head now hurts as a result of all the things I now have to think about to make sure I'm well prepared. On top of that I'm in the process of selling my car and looking at putting my flat on with a rental agent. The market for property sales is so slow as to be almost non-existent so I'm trying to get my head around agents fees, rental prices, emptying the flat, moving dates, and the list goes on.

Frankly the fact that I still have to go into the office is a distraction I could do without!