This May marks the one year anniversary of my graduation from college.
For one whole year, I have driven every morning to work–five to six days a week. I have gone through two jobs, two promotions, three bosses, five co-workers, and a considerable amount of adjustment. Is this progress or is this coming to terms with [...]
Posts Tagged ‘career’
A One Year Recap
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adulthood, advice, career, graduation, life 20-somethings, plans, yound adulthood on May 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Satisfying Feeling
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged career, Job, meaningful life, notoriety, readers, success, work, writing on February 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
of knowing people are actually SEARCHING (or one person is searching several times) for my blog on the world wide internet gives me warm fuzzies inside. Thank you to all my reader, old and new, for having some strange love of pointless writing.
With that, I have completed twenty-five pages of very rough book writing. 25 pages! Some [...]
What Can You Do With A B.A. in English? (part deux)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advice, career, college, degree, English majors, humor, jobs, liberal arts, life, life after college, professors, skills, teachers, universities on September 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
You know, no one ever told me what I could do with my major besides teach or profess (that is, become a professor) when I got out of college. And even though I graduated with an English degree, I’m still not certain what I can do with my degree.
Recently, I got a new job as [...]
Some Job Advice From an Old Man
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advice, career, changing jobs, decisions, jobs, just out of college, life after college, two weeks notice on September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As a small triumph in my own world, I have recently found a job that pays $10,000 more than my current job. And not only have I found it (easy to do since I make slightly more than a Banana Republic employee and slightly less than anyone who works at McDonald’s), it’s now mine.
In two [...]
The Benefits of Talking to Yourself
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged career, Dr. Phil, letters, life, life after college, reflection, talking to yourself, writing on August 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I recently came across a letter I had written to myself two years ago, outlining my past, present, and future thoughts and goals. That’s right, to myself. I have very intriguing conversations with just me talking to…me. Doesn’t everybody talk to themselves?
Well, they should.
Self-reflection is probably one of the most useful ways of figuring out [...]
