My job is like standing on a skateboard and trying to clean a goldfish bowl while I’m holding it in my arms, with the fish still in it, without killing the fish. The task is so wobbly, messy, and difficult, I put the bowl down, sit on the skateboard, and scroll through the fish food …
Tag Archives: work
Job.exe
I have no idea what I’m doing. How does work even work?
Oversubscribed
My writing and my personal life have suffered of late, and that’s because work is dominating my time. Rather, I’m letting it dominate my time. And that’s not a good thing. Due to economic slowdown, I’ve been capped at 40hrs/wk on the clock at work, and overtime has to be approved or justified. Well, since …
AFK errand
Now that I’m fully settled into my apartment, have my work-from-home desk going again, and have fully set up my couch and entertainment center (complete with TV, amp, speakers, and all the A/V gear working together, unlike the last apartment), I seldom spend any quality time at my personal workstation. With all the time I …
No Constrictor
Guys, I hate to say this, but I have a confession. After decades of being a staunch Perl and Ruby zealot, I confess that I… I… I love Python. A year ago, I started my current job at a research lab where Python is the lingua franca next to C. It’s just what the actual …