My philosophy of work is that it is something that is so boring, unpleasant or difficult that people will pay you to do it so they don't have to. Ideally, you find something that is hard for other people, but easy and fun for you ( Read more... )

This entry was supposed to be all about just doing those job duties I'm dreading and getting them out of the way. Plowing through. It's not as bad as I think, and then I'm done ( Read more... )

I have several ideas on things to just do, but I don't seem to be doing them ( Read more... )

So one job goal is to network more ( Read more... )

So, another job I applied for has closed without anyone contacting me. When I figured this out, I got sad. But then I realized that about 2/3 of the jobs on that site disappeared simultaneously. For all I know, that job was already filled when I made my application ( Read more... )

Once again the Legislature is not funding raises for my employer (a 2% raise was approved for state employees except in higher education). I have heard nothing from the president. The place on the web site for next year's budget (and thus raise policy) remains stubbornly empty. Salary ranges for next year remain unchanged (as they do until a ( Read more... )

Every week I keep not putting out this big bag of magazines I want to recycle because there's always a chance of rain.  Today I finally got it out.  And then they didn't pick it up.  They picked up everyone else's.  Not fair ( Read more... )

I'm applying for the job I found yesterday. If you want to look at the draft resume and cover letter, ( look here. )

Apparently I never explained that I got an e-mail explaining that I didn't get the last job I applied for. I also totally forgot to call to make sure they got all my materials, too. Bad Debbie ( Read more... )

Just kidding with the title there. The meeting was quite civil ( Read more... )