A couple of weeks ago I wrote an optimistic little piece about how things seemed to be looking up with my life, particularly when I compared it to how things were back in China, and how things ultimately shook out. Whelp, I spoke to soon. Just as soon as I published that, my boss changed…

Over the course of my life I have had many run-ins with the a force of absolute destructive potential energy. I am referring to the workplace ATF. The workplace ATF is never there by surprise, but somehow you always find yourself surprised by them. It is always one of those things that, at least in…

(Hello! Did you know that this post is part of a series? Now you do!) Generally, I like to keep busy. I have kept: “Busy > Bored” as a personal motto for years. That being said, it is not easy to do. Nor were the reasons I did so virtuous. Keeping busy is the only…

It’s natural that people are in love with their own ideas. Part of the problem is that they are our ideas. The notion is that, because it came from my head, it must be good. After all, garbage doesn’t come from my head. I have a good head. I am a very lucky individual in…

I know that head line sounds bad, but it is actually a good thing! I should clarify that China wasn’t all bad, at least as far as my time there was concerned. I was sometimes annoyed, bored, and variously worried about things at the time, but now that I am at the end of it,…

I went to Udine this past Christmas. Udine isn’t home exactly, but it is close enough. It was nice to go and spend time with my family. The week I spent there was full of good food and relaxing, and I even managed to meet up with a friend of mine in Venice. I couldn’t…

Ok, one more “hey! new job post”. This will be a short one, I promise. And I do hope these things start to simmer down soon. They might. At some point, as the job becomes monotonous, all of this will get boring and I will stop commenting on it. But until then, I am happy…

Whelp – Against my wishes and better judgement, I am back to teaching. It’s fine, and I hope that it is going to amount to something that isn’t teaching. It might do, and so the teaching is a means to an end. Still I can’t say that I am happy about it. The classes I…

In 2022 I became my own version of that awful ‘how it started / how its going meme’. Let’s review. I started the year by undergoing a metric fuck ton of interviews. I was job hunting, and I hate job hunting. I hate everything about it. In the process, I got kind of good at…

Generally, I like to keep busy. I have kept: “Busy > Bored” as a personal motto for years. That being said, it is not easy to do. Nor were the reasons I did so virtuous. Keeping busy is the only way I can the depression from truly kicking in. If I keep busy, I don’t…

The fastest indicator that you will like a job is your working relationships with your colleagues. Get on with them, and the job will likely go well. If you don’t get along with them and, well, let’s just say you shouldn’t update your LinkedIn profile. When I took up my most recent jobs I liked…