My balancing act is off kilter

Once again life is getting in the way of work. And I feel guilty about it. Never before have I been the employee with side-line conflicts. You know the person. The one who is out a little too often because of her kids, maybe they’re sick, maybe school is randomly closed or maybe they’re attending [...]

I’m still struggling

I am living a conflict. I love to work. I love to be busy. I’m finally working for a cool company and doing interesting work. There are nights when I’m here until 6:30 or later. I’m actually okay with this, but I feel guilty that I’m schircking my mom duties. My husband says he’s fine taking [...]

Work is in the way

Today is my 12th day at my new job and it’s getting in the way of my life. I have no time for anything other than work. I don’t mind so much except I feel bad that my husband is taking the brunt of it. He’s still dealing with the kids in the morning, but now [...]

No time left in this small, small world.

I’ve been having a hard time keeping up with posting, between this blog and my other, now that I have a new job that actually makes me work. Damn it! Not that I’m complaining, entirely. The strange thing about having real work to do is that the day actually drags on. I don’t know how [...]

A final word from the last co-worker.

Well, that didn’t take long. No sooner do I post that my co-worker hasn’t mentioned my new job, then she shows up in my cube. Of course, she was all smiles because SHE WANTS ME TO WORK ON HER PROJECT! Then, she slipped in the “good luck”, “thanks for all your work”. Whatever. I was [...]

The final days at the old job.

Since I’ve given my notice, coming in to work now is downright brutal. The commute sucks more. The assignments are more tedious, more annoying, and ironically, piling up. It figures when I’m about to leave the interesting projects come in. Now, I don’t even care.
Nearly everyone I work with has had really nice things to [...]

Something’s about to change.

I have a job interview. I don’t know how it happened, but it doesn’t matter. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I may get out of this dead end company after all. The interview is with a big healthcare ad agency in the city. I have written one healthcare brochure [...]

No r-e-s-p-e-c-t!

You know when you don’t like someone and just their presence alone is annoying and uncomfortable. I work with someone like that. She doesn’t even have to speak to get on my nerves. And, when she does speak, I can’t help but roll my eyes. It’s horrible. I hate feeling that way.
Plus, I’ve started to notice [...]

Job insecurity.

It’s very uncomfortable when you’re not sure if you’re going to be laid off. I hate that instability. Of course, I’m looking for a new job. I’m always looking. But I want to go on my own terms. We recently had a lay off, and it seems the company is still not doing very well. [...]

The coworker.

I like to be liked. I need to be liked. My coworker, “J”, doesn’t like me. She used to, until I wrote her bio. It was supposed to be a casual bio, not a regurgitation of her resume (which, she never provided to me, which is kind of important when writing someone’s bio!). Well, let’s [...]