reflection(4/0)
Seeking a job change
The Fear That Won’t Let Me Sleep I’ve been sick all week, but that’s not why I can’t sleep. Fear keeps my mind running long past my body’s need for rest. I fear losing my job. Many technology companies, from Microsoft to Google, have laid off thousands of employees. Speculation is rampant, ranging from poor management to union busting to recession planning. But whether blame is laid on the economy or the CEO, the effect on my own security is the same.…
Prayer from 2022
ℹ️ On rare occasions I'll write out a prayer, such as when it's hard to figure out my own heart. This was one of those times, here recorded in memoriam. Jesus, I feel dead inside. The passions that sometimes take me are like that quote, “all sound and fury, signifying nothing.” There are stories of pastors and businesspeople who burnt out and discovered something better, but I haven’t even done anything yet.…
Artifacts from my single life
Inspired by Joshua Steele’s review of the exercises in What Color Is Your Parachute?, I dug up some ancient artifacts from my own exercises when I was a single man. ⚠️ These documents were written a LONG time ago. I was single and had almost zero responsibilities. My life has changed in so, so many ways since I wrote all this down, but these documents were guides and regular exercises for a number of years.…
40 questions for the year
Inspired by Stephan, here’s an in-progress list of questions to answer once per year. I don’t know that I’ll ever hit forty of them, but who knows? What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Did anyone close to you give birth? Die? What was your biggest achievement of the year? What was your biggest failure? What hardships did you face? What help did you receive? What was the best thing you spent money on?…