Tag Archives: self-examination

Negatives into Positives **

Photo by Bekka Mongeau on Pexels.com Have you ever had a job where it just felt like an utter flop, and you couldn’t wait to leave? I can remember a job that is reminiscent of Lucy at the chocolate factory if you are familiar with that famous (and hilarious) scene from I Love Lucy. ItContinueContinue reading “Negatives into Positives **”

First, Do No Harm: Social Media **

Does anybody else remember some of the early days of being online? Many pages lacked images because they took too long to download over dialup connections. Email still used dot-matrix printers which zipped back and forth across the page with a motion that reminded you of a typewriter. (If you’re too young to know whatContinueContinue reading “First, Do No Harm: Social Media **”

I Went Back to School: How Committed Are You? **

Being in the middle of a class right now dictated what I wanted to write about today. I’m currently in the last class to complete an associate’s degree, and I’m struggling with what my friend jokingly told me was “senior-itis.” She’s not wrong. I’m just done, over it, and finished, but there’s one little problem.ContinueContinue reading “I Went Back to School: How Committed Are You? **”

Humiliations Galore! ***

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Despite the fact that they were spoken by Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride under entirely different circumstances, those two words sum up my career journey this year. Between no call backs for interviews and starting three new (part-time) jobs this year, I’m now a full-fledged newbieContinueContinue reading “Humiliations Galore! ***”

How Do I Unplug These Things? ***

“…I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you — especially when you are near to me, as now: it is as if I had string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous Channel, andContinueContinue reading “How Do I Unplug These Things? ***”