Embarrassingly, it is becoming all too apparent that I’m a child of the TV generation. Most network shows are immensely idiotic to me, (except reruns of Sex and The City) but I do have some favorites or at least I’m intrigued with certain shows. (Aforementioned The Office).
NBC’s The Apprentice, is annoying, yet intriguing. In last night’s installment, the losing team, Gold Rush, was brought to the boardroom to face The Donald.
When asked by Trump who wanted to bring back to the boardroom “where someone will be fired” the team leader decided to include a member of the team …read more

I took two weeks off between my two jobs. The first week, I went to the mountains with my friend to snowboard and chill out. The second week, I decided to do….absolutely nothing! Wow! I was kind of shocked that doing nothing was not exactly easy for a workaholic like myself.
The first day of my “nothing-to-do” vacation, I did NOTHING but sleeping, eating and more sleeping. At the end of the day, my head was spinning from the over-dosed sleeping and I felt really guilty for wasting a whole day.
So the second day, I started to catch …read more

When I was going through my old posts on my personal site these days, I noticed this one I wrote while I was working heavy duty hours but without much of stress – “Goal Free Living”. I remember I was a production support technician who worked even more hours than my recent project, yet I wasn’t stressed out. I tried to figure out why all the sudden I went from a relaxed person to a “donkey on the edge” .
It was that damn promotion’s fault! I received a promotion a couple of months before I took my last project. …read more

In my case, this is the most important lesson.
When it comes to time to make changes, most of us retreat back to our comfort zones and hoping tomorrow is going to be better… I did that a few years ago when I had a nerve break down working on a high profile D.C project. I should have quitted this job back then but I didn’t. I held onto this job until now. Although the change came a few years later, I am still very happy that I finally did something about it.
One thing I learned is that making …read more

After struggling and crying for a few weeks, the good news came last Thursday…
After I turned in my resignation letter a week ago, I had a few conversations with my management team. I made it clear to all levels of my managers that unless they can offer me something local which does not require extensive amount of overtime, I am walking.
A few days later, my boss’s boss put an offer on the table: A technical trainer job to set up classes and teach new technologies remotely through conference calls. The position is also responsible for leading a technical support …read more