Should Americans Be Getting More Vacation Time?
It seems like recently I have seen quite a few discussions and articles on the matter of American workers and vacation time. First there was this discussion on the New York Times between Gail Collins...
View ArticleSnow Days in the South
Having lived in South Carolina for over three and a half years now, I am more than aware that the south handles snow and ice differently than the north. This is primarily due to the low-frequency of...
View ArticleContemplation: On Wearing Ties
Here is a story. I moved into a new house back in February and in the process did the general moving thing of packing up all my things, transporting them to a new location, and then unpacking them...
View ArticleContemplation: The Best Classes from College
As a note: I got the idea for this post from a Reddit discussion which can be viewed here. Within the next week it will be exactly four years since I graduated with a BA in English Writing from...
View ArticleContemplation: Where No One Knows Your Name
Sometimes this is how I feel at work. Sure, it is a little bit of an exaggeration, there are definitely some people who know my name, however there are a good many number of people who very often call...
View ArticlePersonal Blogging versus Work Blogging
I have been blogging for nearly five years now (this blog was my first, and was started in October of 2006) and have come to be quite fond of it. While I do not blog with the frequency I once did...
View ArticleChristmas is Over . . . Now Back to the Working Week
For all of y’all who are into the whole Christmasy celebrating thing, I hope you had a wonderful and enjoyable weekend. Personally, getting to take a few vacation days and enjoy a full six days of no...
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This week my step-daughter will be ending her time as a home school student and become a sophomore attending public high school. This is an exciting, interesting, and some what stressful time for our...
View ArticleContemplation: Let’s Talk About Professional Responsibility Vesus Personal...
I’d like to suggest that it is almost an absolute certainty that, unless you are self employed, eventually you will encounter some policy or procedure in the organization you work for that you...
View ArticleEnjoying Some Vacation Time
One of the things that I have come to realize in my adulthood, is just how much I took vacation for granted during my childhood. Having whole summers off was just a standard thing for life back then....
View ArticleAn absence and a Nexus 7
So . . . haven’t been around much. Mostly because February is always one of the busiest months for my work and then at the end of the day I am too tired to want to write blog posts. But, busy times are...
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