Yeah, um, thanks a lot, you guys. I think I might do a little shampoo and some baking soda. Can't hurt!

Thanks for the wishes.

Swam 2 miles without stopping. Yay!

The odds are against a full time job without a masters, but you are still more likely to end up with part time work at this point in time. If you are interested in back room stuff 9 cataloging or other parts of tech services) I would look at an AA in library tech.

while a masters might be useful someday - i don't want an administrative title, and I have very sweet gig right now. No weekends, no boss on site, lots of freedom to try different programs and the ablity to pick up extra hours if I want

Flea- I actually know that person who is the boss for that job. I could probably do it, although I am missing the Masters in IT, the SQL, and all but the most basic of HTML. Interesting.

And, to add, most of the paraprofessionals are hourly, and a pay grade below me, so I don't know if I would be hired. Weirdly, that is the first one I have seen that is the same grade as I am.

Leaving the office. Oy.

When I said I was making a break for it before, I forgot the meeting I had scheduled for right then. So no break for another hour. But I did get my protein smoothie, and I've even drunk some of it.

At least I'll have a break until the 8:30 con-call.

Poor developers. One's been here 12 hours already, and the other one will be working from home when he gets there.

I feel like a heel for leaving, but I've done all I can do for the next few hours.

you're REQUIRED to keep a log of job-searching activities while on unemployment, and these days they're reviewing those a lot more carefully

In NYC you have to show up at "career counseling" every couple of months, but other than that you just tick a box online that says "Yes I looked for work this week."

For laundry, I'd go with the baking soda and a TINY bit of dish soap, especially if you have a front-loader. Dish soap suds much more than laundry soap and will overload your machine if you use as much of it as you normally would laundry detergent.

(Is this where I plug soap nuts again? Because they're really quite awesome little things.)

It's a top-loader, and I used the baking soda plus a little shampoo. Hoping for the best! The clothes weren't really that dirty, I figure, so even just the water+agitation would probably have been OK.

ION, I'm watching last season's Eureka finale, and did I even watch this show? I don't remember any of this.

In HR it's very common to move up from admin to manager. Typically you get a bright young thing right out of college, let them do the admin stuff. If they're ambitious and good at it they'll be allowed to do more HR or recruiting or Benefits work. Then they move up when the opportunity arises or take a lateral position that's designed to move up (more responsibilities than a straight admin, say an HR Coordinator, or Analyst, or Benefits Analyst etc.)

However, there is some work sexism involved with this since HR is hugely dominated by women. I went to some HR conferences where it was probably 95% women. It was considered extremely unusual in my last firm that my boss hired two men as assistants.

But all the women managers I've known in legal HR started as secretaries and admins.