Kid Amnesiac

Passion or Procrastination? THAT is the question. So, my quest for professional re-invention stalled at career counseling. I went, I took notes, I did the online interviews, and then I went back home and stuffed it all in a cabinet, literally and metaphorically. I guess I’m not ready. Maybe in the new year. Either way, […]

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I quit posting my career change stuff because it seemed so overwrought and self indulgent once I got the boot.  I haven’t decided if that stuff will see the light of day yet, but one part of an un-posted thread reared its head again two weeks ago. When I first began career counseling, back in […]

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Last fall, for a variety of reasons and not for the first time, I began having serious doubts about the longevity of my career in technical publishing. But with my signings in, my back-list strong, and a non-stop stream of family events from mid-October on, I backburnered my concern. Then January came around, I took […]

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Ten days ago, work was getting to be a drag. I was working (a little) in an isolated cell, I was sick, and I was feeling a bit blue. Then something funny happened. Simon got sick, further restricting how much time I had to wrap things up, and I got busy. The clock was ticking […]

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I was laid off two weeks ago Wednesday, and I’ve been floating in a rather uncomfortable, liminal space ever since. The first two days were pretty good. Lots of friends and colleagues called or wrote to support me, I had a good conversation with my soon-to-be former boss, and I was feeling almost settled into […]

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OK. This is going to get a bit wierd. I had started a whole new set of blog posts concerning ruminations about my career that I was not at liberty to post. I had four installments penned, beginning with a sense that I needed to develop a career Plan B (which is Plan C in my […]

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