I swear I used to work with that guy in eastern Kentucky

That hurts to read.

Those are the best weekends. Do whatever you want until 1 hour before your wife gets home and then rapidly clean everything so it looks like you were productive.

Robi

😬 I moved from a restaurant job to an office and live on Excel now. I have probably not used it for 10 years before this. I’m beginner level for sure. Any suggestions on how to improve quickly?

Try mansplaining. Rephrase their argument, use it as your new position and act like they don’t get it.

I have a pretty uncommon name and happen to share it with a local news reporter/host. I don’t ever watch the local news so I rarely think about it.

At least a few times a year someone I don’t know will bring it up. Mostly it’s if I have an appointment or made reservations. I’ll check in and they’ll have a disappointed look and say they expected someone else.

Honestly, it was a bit of luck.

We live in a larger city in the the Midwest. Looked on indeed frequently and applied for a position at a privately owned - medium/large sized company that is headquartered in our city.

In terms of experience they were looking for 3 years of design and course curriculum. My wife had more of that, just in a different industry. Also required a bachelor’s degree and she had a masters in education. A lot of overlap skills but different titles.

It also helped that her hiring manager and two peers on the team were former teachers as well. Luck was definitely involved.

They did request sample work before one of her interviews. She YouTubed a walkthrough on how to use a free instructional design platform and threw something together. A lot of the skills and platform knowledge she has now was self taught through Google and YouTube.

Good luck to you and your wife. Teaching is a challenging career.

You’re 100% right. My wife has a masters degree in education and spent 7 years as an English teacher with 3 very different types of schools in different districts. She left to be an instructional designer (with zero experience in that field) and nearly doubled her salary overnight.

If America wants to take education seriously they need to stop screwing over teachers.

Rant:

I had a pretty intense acid trip once and came to the conclusion that nothing matters, there is no meaning to life, there is only an illusion of free will, and most likely our existence and personal experiences in life will be completely forgotten within 3 generations (almost like we never existed to begin with). I was super duper depressed after that for several months.

It eventually gave me a different outlook on life though. If it’s only temporary and there is no meaning, I can create my own meaning and enjoyment in life. Live in the moment, do what you want, and create as much meaning and enjoyment for yourself as you can while you have the opportunity. Don’t worry about what others might think because eventually their existence is going to be forgotten as well.

The act of dying might suck, but being dead and not existing seems very serene. Sometimes things just sort of end.

I honestly love that statistic. It’s like a venn diagram of Trump screwing people over, people dumb enough to buy NFTs, and Trump supporters. It looks like this 🔴

I thought this was AI. My brain did not comprehend this at first look.

Your hair looks small.