I Hate Your Job

All of us have had it happen. A normal day, going about our usual business when, like an ambush, someone unloads on us with no filter, no perspective, and no mercy.
In many cases, the recipient did nothing to deserve harsh treatment other than walk by while looking like a promising target, but […]

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[Edit: Apparently, this was done in 2004 in the New Yorker. I hadn’t seen that when I wrote this, and I still haven’t seen it. At least it’s not a Ziggy cartoon…]
(This is a parody of the famous Wallace Stevens poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”)
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Among those office workers,
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There are three responses to hating a job: keep hating it, change the job, or change your attitude. I spend a lot of time focusing on the “change your job” option because I think that it is usually the best, most practical option.
That being said, stirring up discontentment and trying to draw attention to […]

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A Bit of Background
I started this blog back in June, so we’re coming up on the anniversary of the launch. At that time, I’d just left a job that was a bad fit for me, and I wanted to do what I could to help others stuck in a similar situation find a way […]

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