Leaving Normal
I Just Realized How Miserable I Am
By J. Timothy King on September 29, 2006
Recently, Alexander Kjerulf, the Chief Happiness Officer, asked, “What makes you happy or unhappy at work?” I pulled part of my answer from an old post from my LiveJournal, “Things to Make My Life Perfect.” This list of things I actually wrote in response to a writing prompt for the (now defunct) Alchera Project. At […]
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Wage Slave or Crazy Entrepreneur?
By J. Timothy King on August 4, 2006
Eric Allam of 52 Reviews posted an interesting comment on my post “Top Ten Reasons to Remain a Wage Slave,” which is a spoof off of a couple of Steve Pavlina’s “list of 10” posts. Eric linked to a post on his blog, “BusinessPundit lays out 10 misconceptions of entrepreneurship, reveals his hypocrisy,” in which […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Leaving Normal, Stories, Tales of a Wanna-Be Software Entrepreneur, True Stories | Tagged Steve Pavlina | 2 Responses
My Performance Sucks, and I’m Proud of It!
By J. Timothy King on May 19, 2006
Seriously, this week I had my annual performance review, and my manager pointed out several weak areas, and I have no plans to address these weak areas. In fact, as a professional, my answer to this performance review could even end up getting me fired.
Posted in Leaving Normal, Management, Professionalism, Stories, Tales of a Wanna-Be Software Entrepreneur, True Stories | Tagged performance reviews | 6 Responses