Quitting

I had a tête-à-tête with my father this afternoon. He’s been working at the same place for 25 years and he’s thinking of quitting and taking up another venture. He’s trying to find another challenge to tackle to keep himself busy. This got me thinking about the notion of “forever”…

A friend told me he was about to quit his job a few years ago. A shocked me was worried for him. I knew his spending habit and wasn’t sure he would survive the following months unless he got something real quick! “I have my emergency fund intact,” he mumbled…

If you’ve ever thought of faking your death and fleeing to Las Vegas just so you’d never have to see your office again, I feel your pain. A workplace with toxic employers, spiteful colleagues, and slavery-structure wages can have you asking yourself if you really need to pay those bills…

So my friend was telling me about problems at work, and I did my best to resist giving advice and instead focus on mirroring, understanding, rephrasing in terms of feelings/needs, etc. … But he was sort of soliciting advice and clearly motivated, and I didn’t want him to focus on…

Ok I stole that title with a little modification from Carrie Fisher…it is a great fucking title. And I am there, on the edge. Pushed here by the children I gave birth to. Living a life that is more like a warden than a mother. Seeing that my children really…

I quit my job in December of 2021 without a backup plan. I was burned out, it was difficult for me to focus on tasks and I was going down a career path I didn’t like because there was a lack of opportunities available at the company I worked for…