Biennial Lunch

I met up with T at the same place, the Sunflower Restaurant, nearly two years after our last get-together. (The Sunflower, BTW, was very crowded at noon on a weekday--quality cuisine, not expensive, highly recommended.)

Not much has changed. T is a part-time consultant and keeps up with developments in the accounting field--he is one of the best accounting technicians I know outside of the Big Four and Norwalk--but his primary focus has been raising his three-year-old daughter while his wife works full-time. T is in the enviable position of knowing that he can find a full-time job if he wants one; few of us are that confident in our own marketability.

T advised on the most expeditious approach to reactivate my CPA; there are relatively inexpensive online accounting courses that will enable me to accumulate the requisite number of continuing education credits by the end of 2012. Certificate reactivation, like physical fitness, will be more a matter of discipline than native ability. Sigh, the flesh is weak.

We couldn't linger too long because T had to pick up his daughter from the sitter. He gave me her picture, after which I understood why he's in no hurry to re-enter the rat race. © 2012 Stephen Yuen

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