Mistake

I'll admit that I made a mistake leaving my last job. Not because of the pay — although I had got used to having a regular income and, yes, finding contract work seems to be far more of a chore than I had expected — but because of the people. I miss working with other people in general, and with the good friends I'd made there in particular. And while I try to keep in touch, it's proving hard — as hard as I've always found it to keep in touch with people, to stop them drifting away out of my life. And the thing is that I knew this would happen. It was the reason I always gave for not wanting to go contracting, no matter how good the money. I should have stuck with the job, no matter how soul-destroying the frustration became.