Job Search and Suicide (A funny combination)

Well, with a full time contract position the search has slowed down a little bit but it still continues. Working in technical/software support again, but do want to get out of that business. Not many companies have a career path for their help desk people so you just flounder when you want to move up.

I am dealing with the attempted suicide of a man I had come to admire from one of my e-lists. He posted his suicide note to the list (about 8000 people) and those members who were online at the time were able to get the police to him in time, now he and his family are trying to pick up the pieces. I know it was a cry for help but wish he had been able to reach out before it came to that. Suicide is devastating to your friends, family and loved ones. You maybe have ended your agony but theirs is just beginning and you are not available to explain. No note is ever enough. My perception of suicide has been forever tainted by a former sister-in-law who threatened it on a regular basis and attempted it at least 3 times a year. She always managed to stage it so she would be found and helped. For her if the attention of the group was not on her, she found a sure fire way to get it back to her. Walk out to the car, swallow a bunch of pills and come back in and tell every one what she had done. Boom, got everyone's attention really quick.

It is a beautiful spring day, and I really need to get outside and enjoy it.