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ask me again next year
Compared to this time last year are you happier or sadder? At the end of this month it will have been exactly two and a half years since I left that stable job and set out on an adventure of random and self employment. Two. And a half. Years. It was a story of burnout
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lucid professionalism
What made your job interesting in 2025? Some people may incorrectly tell you that technically I don’t have a job. They are wrong. I am not traditionally employed these days, true, but I do in a very real sense work for myself… which is a huge job and a lot of work. Living the dream…
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cheap-ish therapy
Who or what are you leaving behind in 2025? I was reading over old posts. I mean, half the reason I write this damn blog is that, as they say, writing is cheaper than therapy. That is to say… these words are mostly for me. It is a public journal of a sort, after all,
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Excuses Me
December 26 of 31 December-ish posts We were driving home from the last of multiple family christmas gatherings today and, as we sped north down the highway, we passed the giant outlet mall on the outskirts of the city. Then we passed about five hundred cars driving slowly bumper to bumper in the southbound direction and queuing for
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Objectively Looped In
December 3 of 31 December-ish posts What’s your favourite subject in school, I ask a kid. Recess, he replies. What’s the best part of your job, I ask myself. Working from home a few days a week, I almost write. Except that’s not really true. What made your job interesting in 2022? I’ve spent a few posts this