It's "Get your arse back to the office" time! My employer is asking that we spend some time in the office. They state the younger workers have expressed feeling a bit lost and disconnected. They want managers to have twice-a-month in person meetings with their direct reports.
I don't think I want to do IT anymore. Not as a job at least.
The problem is I don't have a degree and I've only ever trained and been educated in IT. I've dipped my toes in real estate and it's interesting but I'm not sure if it's "new career" interesting.
The catch here is I make mid to upper 5 figures and need to maintain that level of income.
What else could I do with my life/career? To stay within IT I'd have to go into management and I'm not sure that's for me.
$11.75/hr, 8-10hr shifts, Saturdays as needed, injuries to hands and fingers are common, earplugs and steel-toed boots required, 30F temperature, drug test, no benefits, temporary status. This is a bad job: a temp job at a sausage factory with poor working conditions and low pay.
People troll in the real world, in their work too. #Kudos to the #engineer who decided that "1620" and "2016" should both be valid, incompatible button-cell battery sizes.
Sitting miles away from home in #vancouver, BC pondering what my next #career move should be. I'm currently a Web Content Manager, I was an Art Director in another life, and in 1987 after reading about Richard Garriott as a kid, I wanted nothing more than to be a game designer.
The whole game designer thing never worked out. I loved being a Graphic Designer at an agency, even though I worked hard to pay my dues. Web Content Management has made me money, but at the cost of happiness? #work
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, joined host Kimberly Rhodes give an update on the 2021 kerfuffle at Basecamp around discussing politics and other contentious issues at work and on work communication channels.
"The real reason bosses are freaked out by remote work" by Aki Ito is a great read and does not apply only to the America's CEOs but other continents and countries, too.
“This is the second iteration of Layoff Brain. The first is the Layoff Brain I have, the one I share with millions of other millennials and Gen-Xers. It’s a defensive crouch masquerading as “smart saving habits.” It’s a thrum of fear and student debt default and medical bankruptcy rebranded as “hustle culture.” This form of Layoff Brain copes by planning obsessively or ignoring aggressively, both with their own form of everyday or eventual suffering. It normalizes precarity and understands the responsibility for protecting against it as a personal responsibility. Let’s call it Worker Layoff Brain.
Then there’s Corporate Layoff Brain. This Layoff Brain mistakes their own experience of layoffs (good! generative!) as everyone else’s, regardless of their field or position. It casualizes layoffs, categorizes it as a “management tool,” and underlines employees’ status as disposable, disempowered widgets — instead of humans with rights and responsibilities to others outside of the work environment. There’s a reason so many CEOs are so bad at communicating layoffs: when you don’t think something’s a big deal, you do very little to get it right.”
#cdrama I watched She and Her Perfect Husband all the way through this weekend, and I had some thoughts.
Summary: A high dollar lawyer lied on her resume saying that she was married. When the person from her photoshopped marriage photo shows up, she has to convince him to pretend to be her husband to keep her job and possibly get a promotion.
The show had lots of interesting moments, and I liked the husband character especially, but it also revealed some problematic aspects of Chinese culture.
But too many people don't believe and never believed in #equality
Equality would mean that people could chose to stay home and care for kids regardless of gender.
It would mean that people would be okay with those who chose to work, or those who did not.
In the show, there is a scene where the male head of the law firm talks about his wife, co-head of the firm. He says she felt thinking she was a bad mother when she worked.
He never once mentioned feeling he was a bad dad for working. #work