It’s been a hectic two weeks since I found out that I got the job. We really had to hustle to find an apartment and get moved in before the end of December. Thankfully, all of our toil seems to have paid off. It’s a brand new year and we have a nice new apartment [...]
Yesterday was long and exhausting. My wife, her brother, and I were busy moving all day. I know I’ve said it before, but you never realize how much stuff you own until you’re forced to move it all at once. Despite the tiresome hassle, however, I am confident that the whole ordeal will be well [...]
There is an interesting aspect to marriage that I failed to fully appreciate until this weekend. Specifically, when you get married, you are no longer a member of only one family. As one would expect, this can complicate things around the holidays when it is expected for you to go socialize with relatives. Over the [...]
Well, today didn’t start out that great. We found out that, in fact, we didn’t get the apartment for which we had been hoping. My wife was inconsolable. However, after working through it with her grandparents, we managed to work out a new deal with the leasing office and will be moving in next week. [...]
Yesterday was a full day for my family and I. We went up to where I’d be working, signed papers for the job, and had lunch with the folks who hired me. Afterward, we went in search of apartments nearby. By the time we got home, everyone was exhausted. Nonetheless, my wife and I stayed [...]
For a few weeks now, I’ve been telling my family with a sort of morbid humor that the only item on my Christmas list was a new job. As it turns out, that’s exactly what I’m getting. After several months of searching, the employers for whom my wife and I had been hoping finally decided [...]
Perhaps it hasn’t been that horribly long that I started searching for a job, at least not by conventional standards, but it feels like an eternity. It really is exasperating that time spent looking for work faces such steeply diminishing returns. One can spend an afternoon or two seriously searching, but resources dry up so [...]
For the longest time, you couldn’t find anyone more against a career in the military than I was. I grew up a Navy brat, so the thought of raising my own family under similar conditions was far from appealing. Of course, I remember thinking that I wouldn’t pursue a career in computer science, either, and [...]
Much as I may have emotionally quit a long time ago, the decision was made final this Monday. I am no longer employed at the thankless job that I’ve held for the past year. I can’t help but be reminded of the famous Martin Luther King, Jr. quote, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank [...]
Over months of observation, I’ve discovered that the wisest piece of advice at my current job is, “Draw not the dragon’s ire.” The CEO has a habit of manually fixing any problem that comes to his attention, a process that usually involves a great deal of yelling and poorly thought-out, on-the-fly business practices. It happened [...]