Thank you for the kind words. Honestly, having gone through recovery and grappling with all the shit I didn’t want to acknowledge has been a gift. Learning to not hate myself for bad decisions I made in the past creates…
Happy to say I'm in a much better place now. Recovery was/is hard, but therapy, meditation, sleep, and exercise -- plus boring old antidepressants -- keep me on much more stable ground. Also family: I have kids now, and…
Fun story time: Almost a decade ago now, I was a happy, high-functioning alcoholic. Winery tours, Scotch tastings, workplace drinks, etc. It was all "fine" until I started struggling to get to sleep without a little…
I'm working hard on this one. I'm down to a three-day week, and am largely keeping the boundaries around those other four. It came about late last year when the current employer started going getting gently waved off in…
Procedures and policies, yet. Rights, not so much, at least beyond those disclosures and documents they are legally required to share. As an example: it is a legally-protected right in many jurisdictions for employees…
The precariousness the author describes is real, at least in my experience. I'm 20 years into a career that many would find enviable except strangely devoid of any tenures longer than about 30 months, because that's the…
Thank you for the kind words. Honestly, having gone through recovery and grappling with all the shit I didn’t want to acknowledge has been a gift. Learning to not hate myself for bad decisions I made in the past creates…
Happy to say I'm in a much better place now. Recovery was/is hard, but therapy, meditation, sleep, and exercise -- plus boring old antidepressants -- keep me on much more stable ground. Also family: I have kids now, and…
Fun story time: Almost a decade ago now, I was a happy, high-functioning alcoholic. Winery tours, Scotch tastings, workplace drinks, etc. It was all "fine" until I started struggling to get to sleep without a little…
I'm working hard on this one. I'm down to a three-day week, and am largely keeping the boundaries around those other four. It came about late last year when the current employer started going getting gently waved off in…
Procedures and policies, yet. Rights, not so much, at least beyond those disclosures and documents they are legally required to share. As an example: it is a legally-protected right in many jurisdictions for employees…
The precariousness the author describes is real, at least in my experience. I'm 20 years into a career that many would find enviable except strangely devoid of any tenures longer than about 30 months, because that's the…