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What it’s Like to Lose Your Job
When you get laid off, you’re in a strange kind of phase where all of a sudden you have a lot of time, but your brain is scattered. Days prior you may have wished you could have some time off. Now that you have it, you wish you could be back at work. The trick…
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How to Work a Life of Purpose
What is my purpose in work? How can I find a career I love? I have been reading Hacker News for the last six months or so and a few days ago I stumbled upon a Jeff Haden piece called “Do What You Love? Screw That”. I admit, this title intrigued me. I had been…
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The First Day of the Rest of My Life
While the title of this post sounds a little dramatic, today I did turn in a resignation letter to my day-time job. The job was well paying and secure. I had friends and freedom there, but it wasn’t what I was passionate about and the moment I thought I could get away to do what…
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Generation X, Y – Two Letters, Two Jobs
I’ve noticed a trend in our generation (the subset between Generation X and Y, The MTV Generation): two jobs. Almost everyone I work with and everyone in my family has two jobs. I have two jobs and even my wife has two jobs [Edit: She had two jobs before having kids, now she has one…
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IBM is Cool
IBM is relentless in its pursuit of computing technology. Recently they were able to use a single atom as a transistor by detecting its on and off states with an electron microscope. This is insane, but I’m glad to have a behemoth entity like IBM which can spend the time and money delving into new…