Fired? I’ve worked in tech or tech-adjacent for close to 25 years, so the specter of layoffs lurks in my peripheral vision like a mean ghost. I held my breath during the big tech layoffs a couple of years ago. Would I be next? I’ve been laid off five times before, but I’ve always known…
Category: work
Do you (have to) love your job?
As a GenX-er, I was raised in the era of “You can do anything! As long as you get a job.” Get a job, any job at all. If you enjoy it, that’s the icing on the cake. But don’t expect to like it. Something happened after I became an adult, and a whole generation…
On Not Losing Hope
A lot has changed in the world since I moved to Seattle and got my first job at a video store in 1990. My first resumé was typed on a typewriter that I rented for a quarter at the public library. The old downtown library looked more like a library and less like a spaceship…
Plumb Wonderful 