I feel like this year, 16 years in, I'm still learning and I guess that is what makes my job enjoyable, even when the stuff outside of that makes me nuts.
That's great.
Somehow I feel like I would love my job if it were 80% time?
So, how was your summer? Mine was fun. Saw some fish. Went mad with hunger. Hallucinated a whole bunch.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Mar 28, 2014 9:18:06 am PDT #23845 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
§ ita § - Mar 28, 2014 9:18:54 am PDT #23846 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can love my job if people.
But, people, so.
Kat - Mar 28, 2014 9:21:50 am PDT #23847 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Somehow I feel like I would love my job if it were 80% time?
HA. So true. I love so many aspects of my job, but if it started later, I'd love it more. Also, I'd like it at 80% if I could choose the 80%. With my luck, my 80% would be filled with faculty meetings, IEPs and more grading.
I can love my job if people.
Well yeah. People are the root cause of 100% of my annoyance with my job.
Atropa - Mar 28, 2014 9:23:59 am PDT #23848 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I thought I'd say hi. It has been a while.
ita! I'm sorry the things plaguing you haven't improved, but it's wonderful to see your posts.
Happy belated birthday to the twins!
aurelia - Mar 28, 2014 9:39:40 am PDT #23849 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Hello, ita!
My job is in such limbo right now that I don't even know what to say about it.
msbelle - Mar 28, 2014 9:55:41 am PDT #23850 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I used to love my job because I felt I was doing important work. Then I liked my job ok, because I thought the organization was a good one - even though the day to day was ugh.
Then I had a job I hated and knew was unimportant. Since then I have just had jobs to make money.
I'd like my next job to be something I thought was important.
Rick - Mar 28, 2014 9:58:54 am PDT #23851 of 30000
In lieu of the grading that Kat is saddled with, people in my setting spend most of their time these days writing grants that don't get funded. Sometimes four or five grants a year that don't get funded, each taking hundreds of hours to prepare.
The funding situation is so dire that grant writing has turned into a kind of Cargo Cult. Time and time again, people reenact the behaviors that used to to bring in money, but the planes do not return. Viewed from the outside, we must seem like a tribe of superstitious primitives, unable to learn from experience.
Typo Boy - Mar 28, 2014 10:13:20 am PDT #23852 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Welcome back § ita §, missed your pixels.
flea - Mar 28, 2014 10:14:18 am PDT #23853 of 30000
information libertarian
One could extend this metaphor to most of academia. People doing PhDs spring to my mind, for example.
-t - Mar 28, 2014 10:17:11 am PDT #23854 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Rick is bringing the observational humour today. Good job, Rick.
I did not bring enough food today. I may have to see what I can glean from the vending machines. What I would like to do, of course, is go home early to make up for staying late earlier in the week, but that's not happening.