I entered 2024 on the brink of burnout. Maybe a bit past the brink. I didn’t feel secure in my job; I was still exhausted from a rushed move at the start of the year; I ignored the fact that I was already busy and tired and went for my…
Actually officially announcing on here that I sold my house just north of Pittsburgh, bought a 120-year-old house in Maine, and started a fully-remote library job (truly, a unicorn of a thing in this field) over the course of just a little over two months at the beginning of this year. TLDR: It’s going well.
A post about my own burnout, with some resources for people who are, themselves, burned out or who are in a position to help prevent/mitigate others’ burnout. TLDR: It’s a lot more organizational than individual, and so are the solutions.
I started a new job last week. I’m excited about it! I also want to issue this reminder: as has always been the case, my posts here represent my own feelings and opinions and not those of any employer, past, present, or future.
Right now I should be grading or preparing for classes, but honestly I’m three blog posts behind where I wanted to be by now (I haven’t forgotten my WisCon promise to make a post about tabletop roleplaying games) and fighting a pretty nasty headache. So what if I take a…
TLDR: I took two classes this semester, and I’m going to teach at least one, probably 1.5, classes next semester. I’m super psyched about it. I’ll still work for the library where I’m an adjunct, too, but fewer hours per week. I’m still available for full-time hire, if you have data for me to work with.
I usually do a year-end post. That’s not happening in 2017. This year took so much from me, and from people I care about, that I refuse to write about it. But I’d like to write about 2018. Not “resolutions” so much as “plans and goals”—and maybe not even those…
Over the past few years, I’ve come to dread the “what do you do?†question, because what people generally mean is “where do you work?†And it’s awkward when you can’t have that conversation the way they expect.
“We’ve got a pipeline problem, so let’s build a better pipeline.” –Bess Sadler, Code4Lib 2014 Conference (the link goes to the video) I’ve been thinking hard (for two years, judging by the draft date on this post) about how to grow as a programmer, when one is also a librarian.…
I always write either a year-end or a year-beginning post, depending whether I want to focus on reflection or resolution—or maybe depending on when I get around to it. :) Re-reading my 2014 resolutions post is a little heart-breaking, not only because I was in such a bad place (so…
