Why Middle Management Sucks
About 11 years into my current job I became a supervisor. It just happened, sometimes you have to step up to fill a void. I had been front-loading my career for a while, meaning simply working my butt off. I...
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How Being Underpaid Took My Career To The Next Level
Way back last century, I was still just a few years into my government career after leaving the private sector. It was a massive cultural change to go to a government job from a small dot com company, and I...
Where Work Pays
I have a treat for you today readers. You know I love me some maps, especially interactive ones. I recently discovered a very nifty site that serves up salary data for 320 different occupations across the country. In other words,...
What Are You Doing To Counter Your Work Stress?
As regular readers know and as you can see on the right rail of this blog, I track some of my outdoor endurance activities. In 2017 I had a banner year, I rode my various bikes about 6400 miles, the...
Are You The Mission Or An Enabler?
A little while back I did a post called Is Your Job Total B.S.? It discussed a Bloomberg article about David Graeber’s book, Bullshit Jobs. In sum Graeber, asserts that most jobs today are total B.S., especially what he calls...
A Day In The Life Data Visualization
I have a cool post today to show an awesome data visualization website I stumbled upon. I know, you’re thinking “who stumbles upon data visualization websites?” Me, that who. I’m waving my dork flag high! Using data from the American...
Is Your Job Total B.S.?
You read that right. Is it? I mean, if your job and what it produces went away tomorrow, would the world be worse off? That’s the thrust behind a book from a guy named David Graeber, and this article from...
The FOMO Is Real And It’s Not What You Think
I went part time at my job in October 2017 after exceeding my target financial independence net worth. I wrote about my initial experience with my new freedom last November, and again in April. It’s my intention to keep doing...
The Gig Economy Isn’t Really Growing
To me, it can be harder than ever today to separate perception and reality. There’s just too much information out there, so it’s often a forest/trees issue. So yesterday I saw this from Bloomberg – despite what you think or what...
Review: Deep Work by Cal Newport
As I mentioned in my last book review, I was hesitant to start a blog for the simple reason of the social media time necessary to market and get readership. I’m not a fan. In his book, “Deep Work”, Cal...
For Better Work-Life Balance, Work More
You heard it right. I like Lifehacker, they usually put out good content that’s helpful in many aspects of life but they’re definitely not immune to the absurd and outrageous. A few weeks ago they ran this hilarious post that...
What I Signed Up For
I’ve been semi-retired to part time at my W2 job since October of 2017. I wrote about my initial experiences and feelings early on back in November, but it’s my intention to keep updating my experience as the journey progresses....
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