Work Life
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Protected: 100. A Hounding? A Few Thoughts
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Protected: 96. Taking Stock of My Career Capital
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91. Oh Bummer!
Found out today that a job I was in the running for has been pulled. Le Sigh.. As an old friend used to say! It is what it is, I guess! Continue reading
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90. “Good” Leaving
Photo by Nataliya Melnychuk on Unsplash Such is the spate of news impacting my industry that the mood in the office on my three mandated days is meh at best. One is increasingly likely to see clusters of people talking in hushed tones, presumably attempting to collectively digest what the latest salvo – internal and/or… Continue reading
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89. Train Troubles
With my weekend, and Dutch exertions all done, it has been an underwhelming return to regular life, complete with the merely meh service of SWR. Today’s issue was a failed signal between Ashford and Staines resulting in a twenty minute wait. I live in hope that someday SWR will get its act together. I won’t… Continue reading
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84. Bring your child to work day
On bring your child to work day, I decided to take the opportunity to drag L along, given how much interest she has shown in getting to know where I work. There were the small matters of two meetings to navigate – an early one which ended at 9am , and the other which finished… Continue reading
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81. From Schiphol with Angst
Waiting at Schiphol, faces blurred by Gemini A few times a year, due to work travel, I end up in the Schiphol vortex. In three years of travel, I still haven’t worked out how it happens beyond it being usually in the Dutch Summer holidays. It is a bad end to a meh day, one… Continue reading
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76. A Tactical Slacking Cautionary Tale
Today’s Merlin Wisdom post was a bit too on the nose for me, what with my non-job searching job search. It chimes with something I had thought of before, namely recognising the value of a bird in hand and not taking tactical slacking to the extreme. A big part of the de-motivation is yet another… Continue reading
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56. On Becoming a Tactical Slacker
Someone, a Black-British celebrity/ intellectual of sorts, who I follow on Twitter posted a link to a substack article which hit far too close home. The article, I did no work for a year and no one noticed, delves into the crisis of meaning which is apparently endemic to corporate life and the author’s experience… Continue reading
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34. Job Search Revisited
The neither here nor there job search continues “at pace”. In today’s edition of interviewing, I somehow ended up across the table for a guy who used to be my boss, four times removed (i.e the boss of the boss of the boss of my boss at the time). Of course that stint came up… Continue reading
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