I may never be a rich man..

Well I may never be a rich man, but I can say I lived a semi-rich lifestyle in the day. I'll remember this.. back in the day when I was 30's, making $$$$+ a year as a single man w/ almost no liabilities.. traveled around every month for kicks, gambled, drank, partied.. but then it all came tumbling down. I think most of the excess money I made was lost in a) bad investments (including a foolish stake in my dead company), b) partying, c) gambling, d) real estate. So back to square 1 -- I guess its okay though, I had fun the last few years, but now I must do something different.

My next move is a tricky one. I don't have the right experience in the mix of 500+ people who are now looking for employment so can't quite get the hardcore job I would really want. I think if I just want to maintain my lifestyle and cashflow I can get a similar paying job back at my old SF employer but in Tokyo. Thats an idea for preservation of cash.. but in the end, cash is not that important and I plan to work till I die anyways.

I think my main options are:

1. take what I can get, ala BeeGiAye TK or whatever is around
2. search hard for something better, probably in HKG and maybe take 3months to find a good gig.
3. take 6 months off and go study Chinese in Taiwan/Beijing/Shanghai in some program
4. move back to CA and find a job back in Tech Industry

I'm leaning towards 3 as it sounds fun, although maybe frivilous..maybe worthwhile to do in life. 1 is the easy road.. maintain status quo, work for a friend of mine, but I am not sure if that is the right thing to do in life. 2) I may explore.. but there are like 2,000 IT workers globally looking for jobs, all eyeing HKG as the gold market right now. I know I'm better than 95% of them, but its not easy to weed out....

So my friends don't worry, given I have #3 as an option it means I have enough cash to live for a few years at least.. so I'm ok. It honestly sucks since I really liked my company and was moving up in the ranks.. but thats life man. Nobody can change the end of it all now.

I guess its good I'm on vacation so I can meditate on this.