Mental Illness: Navigating the workplace while symptomatic
Gene GlotzerPhoto by Austin Distel on Unsplash One of the hardest parts about living with mental illness is having to work while symptomatic. I wish I could say that the best…
What If All Job Applicants Were Anonymous?
Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash I know how this sounds, so please bear with me. There are many problems with the job "market" as it currently stands. All the…
My Christmas Wish
Photo by Valentin Petkov on Unsplash Don't worry, this isn't going to be about peace on earth or anything like that. Not that there's anything wrong with wanting peace on…
Labor
Photo by Joshua Olsen on Unsplash The current conversation around labor is odd. Many (most?) labor advocates still talk about their fight in Marxist terms. Never mind the more theoretical…
Automation and Utopia by John Danaher
A little while ago, I wrote this piece about work. I had just gotten a copy of John Danaher's Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work. I…
Something To Think About Concerning the Minimum Wage
Photo by Enrique Vidal Flores on Unsplash People have been talking about the $15 federal minimum wage for a while now. With Biden's election, it's a real possibility. Democrats have…
Work
I just got a new book called Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work by John Danaher. I haven't read it yet, but I'm looking forward to…
A Negotiation
Time for my seventh entry in the 12 stories in 12 months writing challenge. This month the prompt was "Men and Women." That's an easy one. Probably more than 95%…
A Friendly Game
This is story #4 for my 12 stories in 12 months challenge. I'm not at all thrilled with this one. The prompt was "cut-throat" and the word count was 750.…
Fake It ‘Til You Make It
I've been documenting my recent struggles with depression in this space. I don't think I'm saying anything original, or particularly interesting. I'm mostly doing it out of my desire to…