I don't usually do the "look what I wrote elsewhere" thing on this blog, but today I wrote something that's much more personal than usual for the work blog, and it seems to have struck a chord with people:

What gets you fired up?On a more personal note than I could write for the work blog: I'm having a rough week at work, and it really helped to ( Read more... )

More by luck than judgement, I have become Mr. Survey at Sustainable Seattle, which I'm actually rather pleased about. We have this happiness survey that we're trying to get everybody to take (fairly successfully - we had more than 6,000 responses the last time I checked), and I am the main person doing both tech support for the online survey ( Read more... )

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I just realised that it's over a year since I blogged anything at all about work. I've been reluctant to write much because it can be hard to say anything interesting about a job I'm in within the limits of what's appropriate to post publicly, and a private post would be redundant since everyone who can see one would also be hearing other things ( Read more... )

Actually I've had a job for a couple of weeks, but during the probationary period I didn't want to say anything about it in public.

Anyway, I now work for the Northwest Environmental Training Center as a program assistant. What that means is that I do all kinds things that contribute to the proper running of the courses. It ranges from "help ( Read more... )

As of last Saturday, I am on the board of Seattle Urban Nature. They're a small nonprofit who make gloriously precise and accurate maps of the species distribution of plants in the greater Seattle conurbation. The hope is that by painting a really good picture of the health (or otherwise - we have a lot of invasives and too little reproduction by ( Read more... )

I'm in the job market, for the first time in several years. I'm changing direction somewhat, and looking for work in the environmental/sustainability field, though I really want to find something that trades off my science background, so it's not as radical a departure as it may look.

My resume is online at LinkedIn. If you happen to know anyone ( Read more... )

I have recently decided to quit my PhD and look for full-time work instead ( Read more... )