Today I started a new job. This job is completely, 100% remote. There is no home office, and best of all, no one else is located here in Louisiana. (Well except for one other employee, but that’s irrelevant.) This is the first step towards leaving Louisiana, again, this time for good!
I no longer have to fight stupid, demoralizing BR traffic twice a day, saving me nearly two hours of commute time and untold stress every time I realize that it just took me 45 minutes to drive 15 miles. No more!
From here on out I can just pretend I don’t live here, since I won’t need to travel the horrible I-10 and 110 back in time to the BR of the 1970s, marveling at the abandoned vehicles and trash on either side of the interstate, gazing in awe at the overpasses that somehow stay aloft despite the gaping holes in them made by cars.
None of the people I work with have been to Louisiana, nor do they seem too interested in it, so I’m not bombarded with comments about how “unique” New Orleans is by people who went to Bourbon street once. I work with people from Elsewhere again, and these, I tell you, are my true people. Educated, well-spoken, smart people. Not fancy, not snobby, just smart.
We still have some time to do here before we can afford to leave, but this is a bright spot all the same.
Chicken Stew 