Taking stock...

It's been a year since I left my job, and I'm ruminating a lot about what I have and haven't done over the past year.  I find it harder to explain to people what I do each day; I think it's because I'm trying to explain it to myself.  Not working for pay weights heavily on me.  I have an offer to work for entry-level research pay.  The pay itself doesn't bother me, but working full time does--would make it harder to keep the flexibility I like to have.  But I suppose that means the pay bothers me--I might not mind giving up the flexibility if I were getting paid something closer to what I left behind.