Plan B

Can you remember a time in your life when you sat waiting for what seemed an eternity?  Maybe you were in a waiting room while a loved one was in surgery.  Maybe you were waiting to hear whether you got the job you interviewed for last week.  Or, maybe you were counting down the days to a wedding,  birthday, or vacation.  Whatever the reason, I'm quite confident that it wasn't easy to get your mind off the wait.  Sure, thinking about something else helps the time to pass, but eventually your mind always returns to the wait.

My least favourite type of waiting involves the unknown.  Not having any idea of when the waiting will be over makes me worry that it'll never end.  I think that we've all got things like this in our lives that we're perpetually waiting for.   Many of my friends have been waiting for something to happen as long as I've known them: to meet that special person, to become a parent, to get a little freedom from being a parent, to start up a small business.

The thing is that even though I know that everyone is waiting for something, that everyone is or has experienced this limbo, I've had enough.  I'm done waiting.  I've waited, worked, studied, prayed, begged, hoped, and worried for over ten years and I'm done.  I realize that if things don't change now, they're not going to change.  No more waiting.  Now it's time to do something I should have done at the beginning.  Time for plan B.

Is McDonald's hiring?