Mark Alexander
You're a bad man. You're a very bad man!
Irreverent, independent, and often snarky partnered married gay boomer and doggie dad who is tired of moral pontification by hypocritical conservative assholes and hate filled religious bigots.
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In other words…
Retirement
(That's actual number of calendar days. It's a whole lot less if you remove weekends and holidays. And even less than that if you calculate the actual number of days I have to come into the office!)
indeed.
It's getting too easy to mock the clichés of personal development books. It's giving them to much honor.
It's biased at the beginning : We don't pursue one goal at a time!
I mean, we are mocking these tropes, but this jokes reassert goal-setting bullshits as true. And they're everywhere.
I like some of them, when they don't try to hard. They're insightful, full of wishful thinking, often the same.
In Rita Emmett's book, she reminds that every book/ad/method/diet/etc. saying "it's easy" actually triggers your guilt to manipulate you. Because "if it's easy, and it doesn't work, I'm the one to blame".
Jean-Luc Lemoine has a joke, impersonating a school supervisor, where he says "I like to make kids depressed. A depressed kid is silent, and do not mess around. It gives me rest."
I feel like those fads are splitting people, turning them either into arrogant kids or depressed one.
The better tips are the one that helps you enjoy your present and make your life simpler.
Because when you're already enjoying your life, it's easier to enjoy the challenge, and focusing on it for the good reason (because you like what you're learning, hardship included).
Being able to make your life easier actually makes you better to deal with hard time. Simplicity is what triggers you to be organized. And it comes with friends, and the confidence to ask for information, and so to get to know how to get where you want. (A thing I learned in Germany. Manuals and booklets are always missing the most important and common information, and it's better to ask, ask a fellow guy or the people working there)
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P.S.: Don't be disappointed concerning your Apple certification.
Somewhat you've already gotten a result you can show to recruiters. It shows you're one enthusiast guy, and you almost got it.
As for me, I've had foreign language tests. I'm somewhat a law firm secretary, but I suck at juridical things.
I always was disappointed by my German tests. I've passed them all, but other people seemed better than me. Only with time have I discovered that my low passing grades do not come in question, and that my level really shines. As for English, I have a diploma, but it doesn't live up to my actual level (and I should plan to pay 300$ for Toefl or something).
And actually much recruiter doesn't know these reference German diploma, or university accessory English diploma. They never heard of it so you have to explain during the interview. As long as you know the language a bit better that them, and that you're confident, and that you like what you do, it's fine already.
So maybe your result won't score you a 100% apple-related job right now, but it sure already is an asset! You shouldn't feel down. Your past experiences really add up! (while people are overlooking a newbie like me)
It's a nifty idea of you to keep searching for more qualified IT work, one that would lend you more consideration and wages. (With your blog I discovered that IT work could feel like janitor work)
By now, sure you would prefer to be paid to do what you do : to keep up your knowledge on the new apple things. That would taste much sweeter!!! But that's what you're putting your effort on : making your job more enjoyable, and your life the same way.
There's one shifting barrier between crappy work and nice ones, it's thin, and sometimes it doesn't take much to cross it. You're the same person, but all of a sudden you're treated much better, getting paid better, and co-workers are nicer and interesting. Yeahhh life can be absurd the best way possible.