I’ve wrapped one week of being unemployed, and it’s been quite the week. I was able to go on campus to interview for a full-time job (which would be starting next Fall), I was able to line up some online teaching gigs for the Winter and Spring terms, and I’m on track to start doing some part-time consulting gigs starting next month.
In short: this period of unemployment is likely to be fairly brief… it’ll just going to be a different kind of employment.
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Yesterday morning was awful, after waking up to the election news. So I wrote a tearful post about not being able to get excited about a career opportunity.
After the day on campus, I take it back. I’m excited.
Oh, how I needed a damned “win” yesterday morning!
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Well, I have news… I’ve been invited to Pennsylvania for a full day on campus, at a prestigious university, as one of two finalists for a great professor job teaching Management and Human Resources.
But I woke up today, ready for final prep, and all I can think about is how ashamed of this country I am this morning, the day after the election. I honestly struggle with whether I want to stay in the U.S. at all, and that’s coming from someone who rolled his eyes when celebrities used to say similar things about either candidate.
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After eleven and a half years, on Friday I said goodbye to my job at the bank. If this seems sudden, you’re not entirely wrong: it happened quickly on Friday afternoon, but in many respects it was inevitable.
The three biggest takeaways, though: it was my choice, it’s truly a good thing, and I’m profoundly greatly for a life-changing experience at the company.
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My last post was more than six weeks ago, and it was admittedly pretty grim. I’d confessed that I wasn’t handling the stress of mid-2016 very well, and that I’d come to realize that I needed help to make it through.
Well… I’ve made it through. I’m not out of the woods, but things have gotten better.
Slowly but surely, I can see something to look forward to
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Anyone reading my blog for the past several months knows that I’ve had a rough time, dealing with my father’s cancer and death, and everything that came in the aftermath of that. I haven’t been very public, though, about how bad things really have gotten.
Close friends know that blogging is often my therapy. And September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. So here goes: a few weeks ago, I sat on my kitchen floor with a giant bottle of Jack Daniels and a giant blue kitchen knife and came very close to killing myself.
Time to call in reinforcements
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Presidents are sometimes evaluated on their performance in the first one hundred days in office… Today, I look back and realize it’s been 100 days since my father’s death.
I knew losing a parent would be difficult, but I never imagined just how much burden would come with it. Let’s review, shall we?
I swear, the pulling never stops
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