...And never worry about the fall

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Earlier today in the #frogpants chat room, Malynor (my 19th favourite Canadian), asked how I was doing on my first real day of unemployment, and commented that planned unemployment was probably less stressful.

I said "Well, planned unemployment is slightly less stressful in that it's, well, planned and I have resources set aside to deal with it. But it's still weird for much the same reason skydiving is.

Because of your careful preparations and precautions, you have a strong belief that everything is going to work out fine at the end of the fall, but you still can't quite shake the fear that you just stepped out of a perfectly good aeroplane."

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Much like in skydiving, the allegorical "perfectly good airplane" usually isn't, if it's one you're jumping out of.

( This analysis brought to you by a youth of pumping avgas into jump planes that I wouldn't have flown in WITH a parachute. )