Hi. My name is Jon and I’ve decided to take a “personal leave” from my job for the next 6 months.   [Step1 – Admit you have a problem.]

Here’s my story:  I have a wife, 3 kids, and (had?) a good job. I’ve been working in finance for the past 20+ years, challenging and generally rewarding. But it felt like it was time to regroup and reassess my life and priorities . To spend some more time with myself and with my family. Catch up on some things that kind of fell by the wayside along the way.  Hence the personal leave, or “sabbatical” as our family calls it (or “mid-life crisis” as the clinical psychologists would call it).

I can’t say that I’ve got any grand plans yet as of Day 1, nor do I have any idea of what I’ll discover along the way. But I’m going to damn well enjoy it and hopefully accumulate some good stories by the end of it. Or else it will have been a colossal (and expensive) waste of time…

And I’m going to document it online. Not sure why. For posterity? Maybe it will allow someone to live vicariously though it. Maybe the risk of being publicly shamed for being boring will motivate me  to achieve great heights. Or if nothing else, it will kill some time and entertain me.

I don’t know much about blogging. Nothing, in fact. I’ve never even seen a blog. The closest thing would probably have been reading “The Diary of Adrian Mole” 30 years ago. I have watched a few episodes of the Kardashians, if that’s relevant. So, I don’t even know if what I’m about to do is even technically blogging. In any event, let’s see what happens (most likely a poorly written on-line story about my family becoming sick of me being around all day…every day).

But also, someone said you can make money off of these things.