Welcome to my world!

Welcome to my world! This is a brand new blogsite, and I hope you enjoy it(for that matter, I hope I enjoy it as well). 

Anyway, to introduce myself, my name is Roger U Roundly(at least as far as you the reader are concerned)and I work for the State, one of those social service agencies providing assistance for indigent folks. Our facility is actually a conglomerate of several agencies, both State and County, 12 partners in all. As such, we are open to the general public, and I do mean general. Quite a cast of characters coming through our doors, as varied as you can imagine--though, as you can also imagine, being a social service agency, you see some of the same characters over and over and over again.

I started this job on April 16, 1991. Before that, I'd been a Bank Teller for 4 1/2 years, a fast food worker for 3 months before that, and a full-time musician up until then. Such is my 'career path' as it were.. The money was over twice what I'd made as a Bank Teller, which was of course wonderful, but of course the stress doubled as well. It was work I'd never done before, a more volatile clientele than I was used to, plus a boss who liked to micromanage(his newest employees in particular). Those three elements all stirred together made for a bitter concoction of a first year.

And here we are over two decades later. After that first 12 months , things got a lot easier. Over the course of all these years , you're going to have your rough ones and your easy ones, relatively speaking, but on the whole an easier ride than that first year of school.. 

 
At this point in the game, I'm looking at retirement. Bailing from the game. It's something most folks start thinking about when they get 5 years away. For me that was 2009. That's when the clock started ticking as far as the countdown. Here in February of 2013, I've passed the 5 , and the 4, and the 3, and even the 2. Down to the one-and-change at this juncture. Nineteen months remain(counting this one)until I too will be a retired person. August 29, 2014 will be my last day of work. So close yet so far. 
This blog is not only about my quest to get from here--February 6, 2013, to there--August 29, 2014, but also about all the craziness going on in the office and with our agency. No names(not even mine), but certainly events. And I'm planning on the blog title to change every month. Next month(if we get that far), it'll be called Only 18 More Months of this Shit!And so forth, until we're finally finally there!

So, welcome! More to come.