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The Ups and Downs of Unemployment

March 23, 2009

Getting up before ten, feeling like you wasted a day if you don’t leave the house at all. Watching two dogs, and trying to search for jobs while sitting on your butt in sweatpants on the couch for enough hours to leave a butt indentation on the sofa…all of these might be ups or downs [...]

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Latest Victim

March 12, 2009

It’s not a secret that I was unhappy in my most recent job. I felt largely that I was unchallenged, unmotivated and not really…going anywhere. There was, actually, no where to go. So it was kind of a shock to me today at 5pm when my boss brought me into his office and told me [...]

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What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

February 21, 2009

People love to ask our generation what we want to be when we grow up. My response used to be, “I’m graduated college. I’m not grown up?” In the recent years, I’ve quickly realized that my assumption that a college degree does not a grownup make was incorrect. In fact quite the opposite. After all, [...]

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Feeling…

January 22, 2009

Demoralized. Lost. Lonely. Frustrated. Unmotivated. Uninspired. Getting on the plane to come back was quite possibly the most difficult thing I’ve done in a while. Coming back to work this morning was even harder. Staying after a 9am stern talking to about the professionalism of taking a day off blah blah blah made staying even [...]

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Riding Shotgun in Life

January 9, 2009

Lately freaders, I’ve been feeling a little down. A major Negative Nancy if you will. Mostly though, I’ve been feeling like I’m engulfed in a life that is not my own. As I sat at home last night redesigning my blog, I wondered if this was what I had planned for myself almost three years [...]

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Hate – a whole lot of it.

November 13, 2008

So i had a post all written out about how I got into the festive mood today when i was enjoying some Dunkins Hot Chocolate in Crystal city while reading before I went back to the office from an event on the Hill today. But thats not the part that got me festive. No no, [...]

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What a way to start the day

August 12, 2008

I don’t have the best employment record. At least not since i graduated college. I don’t like to admit this but i think I should throw it out there. Therefore, despite my high hopes, my thank you notes and my follow up via email yesterday, I was a wee bit upset when I awoke to [...]

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Giving Notice

July 9, 2008

I’ve never been good at giving notice at a job. I’ve always been a bit self conscious that way. It’s probably also why I hate small talk, can’t network for the life of me while my fiancé? Is a master at it. Tonight, I’ve decided, to give my notice at Job #2. Working two jobs [...]

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i hate wednesdays

June 18, 2008

There’s something…mind numbing about working two jobs where ultimately you’re made to feel like a little bitch. There’s nothing more demoralizing than staying at work late only to get home, make a quick clothing change only to run off to job number two for another five hours. While most of the working world goes into [...]

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Oh boy oh boy

May 13, 2008

It’s almost 4:00pm…this means that I have been up for almost 12 hours. I worked the opening shift at the gym. Thankfully the Manager on Duty let me leave about a half hour early since I had an event to get to at 845 downtown. Unfortunately, one woman dragged my day down. She rolled in [...]

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