on April 28th, 2009

It’s quite common to be told to find a job you love, or follow your passion and the money will follow. Unfortunately, life doesn’t always seem to work out so conveniently for everyone.
So what is one to do when they can’t earn a living from their passion, or at least they haven’t figured out a [...]

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on April 11th, 2009

I was musing to myself at work a few days ago. I realized that much of the time I’m working, the job I do requires absolutely no thinking. When it gets busy, I need to think how to prioritize tasks, but that’s it. Aside from that bit of thinking, the work I do most days [...]

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on April 7th, 2009

Perhaps I shouldn’t be writing this as I’m still looking for a job. I feel a need to do so though. I will add one caveat: I know this doesn’t apply to absolutely every job-seeker or employer, but it covers a large number of them, and enough so I don’t feel it’s probably any job-seeker [...]

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