Category: work
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Laundry List
Well, here it is, my first day home after the termination of my position at the office. The whole day’s my own, yet somehow I have a whole week’s worth of work to do. Funny how that happens. “I wish I could pay you to stay at home and be my house husband,” My Darling… Read.
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countdown
Today is the first day of my last week at the bank! I’m still debating myself as to whether that’s a good thing or a very, very bad thing. When I reminisce about the adventure we went on after I retired from the Air Force (exactly five years ago at the end of this month!)… Read.
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dream
I think I’ve found my dream job. Ideally, my dream job would allow me to work from the comfort of my basement lair, where I’d be able to sit back with a cup o’ joe and listen to Handel’s Water Music or whatever was on the turntable until the urge to start working again made… Read.
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pissed
I just narrowly avoided a pants-wetting event this evening: After spending an hour and change polishing my resume, then closing the editor to upload the finished doc to my LinkedIn profile, I couldn’t find it anywhere! Even after taking a deep breath, getting up out of my chair and stepping away from the keyboard for… Read.
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broom closet
I cleaned out my desk yesterday, which is as archaic a way of saying packed up & moved out as it is to say I dial phones when I’m using phones that have no dials. In our office, there are no desks, only particle board slabs screwed to brackets on the walls of our cubicles.… Read.
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rezooMAY
Hot Tip O’ The Day: Mondays aren’t so bad when you don’t have to spend them in the office! One of the bennies that came with the elimination of my job, if that’s not a self-destructive contradiction, was that management hired a placement agency to help those of us who were about to be newly… Read.
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job hunting
The City of Madison is advertising a vacancy for the position of Parking Enforcement Officer. A Parking Enforcement Officer makes more than I do in my present position. He makes more than a police officer. Probably takes way more shit than either of us. I’m so tempted to apply for the job. Obviously this isn’t… Read.
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pop-up
Banging away at my office keyboard yesterday morning, I was distracted by an Outlook pop-up reminding me I had a very important meeting that afternoon. I’ve got Outlook set up to give me these things all the time. I can hardly remember to feed myself without them. Trouble is, they’re only as good as the… Read.
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testing testing
I drove into town early this morning to take the state worker’s office support exam. I hear the state still has a hiring freeze, but there are an awful lot of vacancies appearing on the state’s employment web site. Assuming they’re not putting them there just to keep somebody busy, I’ve been applying for as… Read.
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getting ready
I’ve spent more than a couple of hours updating my resume today. I love to write, but updating a resume is only slightly less agonizing than clawing out my eyes with my own fingernails. I don’t know why it should be like that, but it is. I’d guess it’s some sort of physical law and… Read.
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