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The job that I currently have, and which I have had for two years now (!!), has been challenging in a number of ways I could not have antici...

If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you’d be surprised by how well things can...

Photo:  Eye Test, by John LeMasney , Creative Commons My darling husband is in a bit of a funk. This is hard for me, because he is gene...

What I would prefer to do. Has someone ever said this to you?   “I don’t like confrontation, so…” Does anyone really LIKE confro...

Wow, I love this story: 80-Year-OldTeacher Makes the Grade For Guzmán, teaching is not just a profession, it's a vocation. ...

Okay, no more fooling around. It's time to get serious.* Returning back to work this week after a simply wonderful long Christmas brea...

About a million years ago, when I first started dating Sweet Dub, I had just taken what would turn out to be the worst job I have ever had...

I am having angst. It is career-related angst, and it is not a pretty thing. It is a bright red, heavy, sharp-horned little creature yanki...

When I was job hunting this fall, I applied for a couple of positions, and I got an offer at the first one I interviewed at before I even in...

There's a light on a hill That's far out in the distance And it calls out my name It calls out for a change - Fishbone, "C...

So:  I gave notice at my job this week. No worries, I have another job to go to. More to come.

Happy New Year! So far, this year 2011 has been very busy. We are almost a week into it, and it doesn’t suck exactly, but I was hoping for ...

Sometimes when you are working from home all the planets align and even though you might occasionally stop working to throw in a load of l...

Much has been happening in my personal life and I don’t feel I can share much of it here, although when I sit down to write, that’s all that...

Something has been weighing on my mind over the past week or so. I know of a situation in which there is a job opening and three candidates ...

Yesterday Sweet Dub and I met for lunch and inadvertently celebrated an anniversary: it’s been a month already since he got laid off. I know...

It is never simple here. Everybody has an opinion. A brief piece which is time sensitive is held up. Repeatedly. Because so-and-so has to re...

Well! I just dropped a bomb on you and then skedaddled away, even though so many of you so kindly took the time to comment and commiserate. ...

Sweet Dub just called me. He got laid off today. Holy freakin' crap.

Wow, so here I am, off to a raging start with this blogging thing in 2010. It’s February already and I’ve posted only 3 times this year. Thr...