gentleness - by jaron - the way home
I can't bear talking about work anymore. I don't know if that's an indication that I'm doing the wrong thing for eight hours a day, five days a week, or if I'm just disillusioned with the grind. There's a good chance that I'm going to have to look for a new job again in a few weeks, given that tech is kind of tanking and my company is riding that plummet like a cowboy rodeo atomic bomb. But I don't want to think about that right now.
I can't bear talking about work anymore. I don't know if that's an indication that I'm doing the wrong thing for eight hours a day, five days a week, or if I'm just disillusioned with the grind. There's a good chance that I'm going to have to look for a new job again in a few weeks, given that tech is kind of tanking and my company is riding that plummet like a cowboy rodeo atomic bomb. But I don't want to think about that right now. My brief experience with working in tech is that lots of people tend to extensively discuss tech outside of work (well duh, Jaron). In between stretches of…
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