A Natural Scientist

 Today I looked at a job ad and immediately fell into a deep depression. Nobody will ever hire me! I am DOOMED if we stay here, doomed!! The...

This summer, my work partner and I redesigned, set up, tested, and then piloted a series of new (teaching) labs. They are not perfect, but t...

As I may have mentioned, I have a new job starting in one month. I'm teaching classes in my speciality, BUT the whole curriculum already...

This week I finally received the dryer I ordered three weeks ago. When I went to plug it in it.... had a wiring diagram. Because it is a g...

I have, in fact, a full-time job.  For the next five years, probably. At my other job, we got a grant, so I have to do that job next year...

I just quit one of my three jobs.*  This is the convenient, lucrative, but extremely boring one where I am paid $$$$ to babysit lab.  Howeve...

I quit one of my jobs this week. I'm finishing the semester and I'm out. Hurrah! I'm interviewing for another job, which would...

We are, once more, having the annual Grandparent Visiting Without Me . (I would trade 'in-laws who don't suck' for 'ten days...

I am attempting to combat a midsummer funk caused by being the childcare.  So, here are some good things. Ursula Vernon bringing the GO...

I don't even know what to say, so I haven't been. I applied for a job!  I was very well qualified for this job!  The college had d...

So I have a cunning plan , and I'm working through it, and it's fine, mostly.  (Right now I'm still feeling residually quite ill...

My work life so far looks like this: 2002-2008: Grad school 2008-2010: Bicycle Company 2010-2014: Extremely Bored Housewifery 2014-2018...

For.... reasons.  (I may continue to complain , privately, elsewhere; but...) Here is a series of updates: I taught bio again I got si...

I have nothing interesting to tell you about so here: Health: still iffy but somewhat less so following some minor surgery and lots more d...

With respect to the previously mentioned diagram : I don't think one's job necessarily can or should fulfil all the desirable qualit...

I recently applied for a job Assessing Things. I was quite well qualified, but they didn't bother to interview me. (I guess that they ha...

Still figuring out all the things.  Health!  Work!  Children!  What am I even doing with my life!  A lengthy and bitter small-town dispute w...

Here . And a sincere FUCK YOU VERY MUCH to all (edit: that is, the subset of) the white dudes and straight white Christian ladies who are co...

WORK:  Hey, my job is... boring.  Easy, but also boring .  By the third time around with the same lab, I am really a little tired of it. ...

There aren't a lot of job openings around here.  But even so, whenever I see something, I ask myself: is this better than nothing?  I do...