I just quit one of my three jobs.* This is the convenient, lucrative, but extremely boring one where I am paid $$$$ to babysit lab. However! I am so bored of doing it that boredom as a function of time has risen exponentially, to a point where its function has overtaken the money.
Five years, it turns out, is how long I can cheerfully do a dead-boring job that pays really well.
(And it also suffered from a recent last straw and hey! I never have to interact with that guy again!)
In the near-ish future I will probably be offered a full time job Elsewhere* and have applied for a different, even better full time job at Elsewhere which, I have reason to think, they will likely interview me for.** So! Things are changing!
Two years ago, I decided I wanted a job at Elsewhere. I took online classes! I wrote a grant! I worked my rear off on a course redesign! I did lab protocols and discussions and took a third job and all of these things were aimed at one goal: get job at Elsewhere by August 2020, when Sweetpea goes to kindergarten.
I didn't really expect the sudden acceleration, but it's gratifying to have an effort produce an effect.
* But not until May because academia.
** Long story which I cannot relate.
*** Same, largely.
Ooh, good luck at Elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Dinosaur Dude's letter is.. well, it's something. Good riddance.
I ran into him on the elevator today and he was all cheerful and matter of fact! I think he doesn't even REALIZE it was offensive!!!
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