So I was looking around at possible job opportunities, this evening. The problem is I've gotten so used to working remotely (I've been doing it for 11 years now!) that I don't know if I could go back to working in an office every day! But what I'd like is to work for a company that is smaller than my current company, but not like, 100 people. Having a hard time finding anything in between though, and the small companies are less likely to offer remote work (and also more likely to go out of business). But one company nearby had an opening I looked at just for kicks, and was thinking "hmm, it's a couple levels above me but it's not technically asking for more experience than I have". And it listed who was in the equivalent of my current job. And I looked her up on linked in....and omg, she used to work at my company all of like three years ago in basically an assistant position. Tempting to apply for the job just for the title, work there for a hot minute, and then get a new job that jumps me like six levels, yeeesh! (Mostly I'm actually trying to find one that is essentially my job but possibly with "senior" added, and a smaller company because I'm sick of the over-intricate bureaucracy)

Are titles that uniform across your industry? Because in mine you can't tell anything from the title! For example, on my current team, mid-level individual contributors are "Assistant Director." We would post it at 3-5 years experience needed.

You should totally apply, meara!!

The difference in a tiny company is I always let my staff create their own titles. I would place the ad with a generic title like sales or software support but after hired they could call themselves whatever creative title they liked. Judi was Accounting Manager for the lone bookkeeper position and Karen liked EHR Implementation Specialist. I think 13 was the most employees we ever had at one time so serious lack of corporate bureaucracy.

I blocked off my whole morning to work on a project, and now I don't wanna. But I'm going to! Right now! Any minute!

You can do this, Jesse!

It's Wednesday! That means I have gone the entire first week of Lent without drinking any wine, or any other booze for that matter. Good grief. No coffee for several weeks, now no alcohol. Grumble.

Yesterday I had to train some nurses at my personal PCP's office. Not surprisingly when he saw me chatting with the MAs he took my arm and led me to an exam room to take my BP. Woo! He said it was great, then told me to lose another 30 pounds. Told me to cut carbs; I didn't bother to tell him I haven't had carbs in months.

Go Jesse! Kick that project's ass!

Good luck, meara. Maybe it'd be worth it to leapfrog titles, who knows?

The power went out twice during the night. I am sleepy.

me too Dana. SO MUCH WIND!!

Geez, check out the wind map. Spooky.