About 18 months ago, I left home and moved to another country for a massive job opportunity. (Dublin to London) I don’t regret it. Career wise it was a wonderful move and some other things turned out really well too. I’ve gotten to do alot of travel since then for myself and the notion of me being sent on a business while once foreign become if not regular, always there. <\/p>\n
I’ve made alot of friends here, I work with some great people who were pretty good at the making feel welcome. I guess I was lucky in that someone else just moved to London and the same dept as me from another country and we ended up good friends. <\/p>\n
But there have also been the downsides, through various problems (not all of them my fault) such as e-mail addresses dying and loosing my mail, and my mobile been stolen (with all my numbers in the sim card and damn right I keep a paper copy now, why do we always learn the hard way?)<\/i> it left me without contact details for alot of people. Some I was able to get to through mutual friends others I was not. I’ve only managed to spend a little time in Dublin since I moved most of it on business so the chances of bumping into them at local haunts was never great. One time I felt certain I would meet some was at a con in London earlier in the year, in the most ironic of all things I was sent on a pretty important trip and spent over 3 weeks in the US. This had an upside as I got to meet some online friends, some of whom are real special. The downside was other online friends were in London for the con and I missed them. (Online friends is just a description I work online and AIM is the primary method of communication for me. I don’t differentiate between online and “rl” friends.)<\/i><\/p>\n
I don’t know what I am saying here, there are some people who I would really like to get in touch with, could I be more proactive about it? yeah possibly, but it’s pretty hard.<\/p>\n
What brought this on? well I ran into somepeople I had not seen in a while, but the events of the week aswell I guess. So far I think I’ve been pretty lucky I don’t know anyone hurt, missing or worse. But I know people that do.<\/p>\n
I wasn’t going to comment or say anything really in this post, but I guess just appreciate the people while you have them.<\/p>\n
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