There is this glossy magazine cover of a life that some people call adulthood. Get a significant other/spouse. Get a better job. Get an apartment. These expectations for myself are not so much life goals, as they should be, as they have become status symbols. Have I fallen in love yet? Have I found my true [...]
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Move on, Move up, Move out
Posted in job, life, self-help, work on July 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Anything but the Best
Posted in career, deserve, job, truth, work on May 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
All my life I have heard the line “you deserve nothing but the best.” Well-intentioned as the sentiment was behind the line, as a credo this screwed me over. A friend of mine insists that the word ‘deserve’ implies an action on my part, like “he got what he deserved” implies he did [...]
Brick in the wall
Posted in Smallville, career, empowerment, self-esteem, self-help, work, worth on May 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I earn a paycheck la dee da dee dah – but is that good enough? I’m in school, studying theory – fascinating reading material, eighty dollar textbooks. What this blog is about is aspirin – oh wait, aspiring to be more than you already are, but also being realistic. I have limits and I have [...]
