After nearly a year's job search: a new journey awaits me in two weeks, after the jump ...
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This past July, I wrote a
Top Comments diary about working for my local
Humane Society as a temp employee since late last December. This will come to an end (two weeks from tomorrow) and in the 9+ months I have worked there: there has not been a single day which I have not looked forward to reaching the office.
True, compared to the number of years I have worked at previous employers it's a much shorter time-frame to compare. Still, even at employers I was glad to work for: there were always days I dreaded leaving home in the A.M. (meetings galore, looming deadlines, etc.).
Here, there has never been a bad day, not when there were friends such as Buddy the Office Cat to look forward to, and the job kept me both solvent (sorta) and sane. And even though my job description described accounting functions ... whenever I walked past a cage and a cat stuck its paw out at me ..... well, I was reminded of my real job: helping that lil' critter find a home.
Still, I will look forward to leaving in two weeks - which will mark almost exactly one year since my last job was eliminated. Not having a steady job not only paid much less (and with no benefits) but also left one unable to make many long-range plans, either (needing to keep all one's options over).
And one final benefit from the Humane Society gig: although I worked for a non-profit before (nearly twelve years at Dartmouth College's medical center) that was definitely a large, more corporate-like environment. The Humane Society post surely helped convince my new employer to offer me the job as controller for Monadnock Developmental Services - a non-profit agency here in southwest New Hampshire describing itself as having (over the last 30 years):
Specialized in providing individuals with developmental and related disabilities the means to live as independently as possible in their own community.
And with my having an autistic nephew ..... though he lives 200 miles away in New Jersey, I trust that each day I'll feel as if I'm going to work to help my nephew Pat (photo below). Not unlike the story (perhaps apocryphal) about the janitor who worked at NASA during the 1960's who, when asked what he did for a living replied,
"I'm helping to land a man on the moon".
This is the third time I have been downsized and had to find new employment since I turned age 54. Hopefully, this will be the last time .... and for those of you stuck for a long time in the job hunt ... may this be your last search, as well.
Here's a Rickie Lee Jones tune that, hopefully, can be said of me (if this new post pans out):
Now, on to Top Comments:
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From offgrid:
In the diary by VL Baker about the chances for Bernie Sanders - this comment by northleft is very insightful.
From
hulibow:
In the front-page liveblog #2 this morning: this comment from JustBeKos after the Pope's historic address to Congress.
From
Older and Wiser Now:
In the front-page story about the less-than-accurate claim of innocence coming from Carly Fiorina - I double-dog dare barry s to follow-through on his idea.
And from
Ed Tracey, your faithful correspondent this evening ........
In the diary by pierre9045 about the price-gouging CEO Martin Shkreli - a medical-device industry employee named Ken in MN offers a cautionary tale over Shkreli's (seeming) walk-back.
TOP PHOTOS
September 23, 2015
Next - enjoy jotter's wonderful PictureQuilt™ below. Just click on the picture and it will magically take you to the comment that features that photo.
(NOTE: Any missing images in the Quilt were removed because (a) they were from an unapproved source that somehow snuck through in the comments, or (b) it was an image from the DailyKos Image Library which didn't have permissions set to allow others to use it.)
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And lastly: yesterday's Top Mojo - mega-mojo to the intrepid mik ...... who rescued this feature from oblivion:
1) Party caters to racists and bigots for decades by hnichols +146
2) in the old days by anna shane +122
3) So, does he get nabbed right off the bat by Tausendberg +116
4) They built that. by skillet +112
5) "Have fun storming the castle" by annieli +106
6) The Rs did this to themselves; now the Borg by a2nite +102
7) it ain't over til it's over by jfromga +96
8) That's the other proof of their "pro-life" lie. by Onomastic +93
8) It should also be illegal for anyone to see an by Dog Chains +93
10) Nothing says "patriot" by kenwards +90
10) YES! by Thinking Fella +90
12) This is the same kind of nut by bear83 +80
12) Must. Post. This. Again. by JekyllnHyde +80
14) You are correct on the qualifications for by middleagedhousewife +79
15) Took long enough. by CwV +72
15) Nearly 6 million people are suppressed from voting by Satya1 +72
17) There is no consistency by vrob +68
18) It won't cover the political damage by AoT +67
19) but but but John Roberts said by TrueBlueMajority +66
20) Bernie 2016: Going All the Way by JekyllnHyde +65
21) Always my issue ... by Magenta +64
21) Who cares about those who are in a position to by HappyinNM +64
23) True. That happened to me about 1969. by SoCalSal +63
23) Very few are mentioning his Met days by tampaedski +63
25) sorry, it's not original to me by TrueBlueMajority +62
25) No way. Hillary might as well have by GoGoGoEverton +62
27) There's this cool little movie for boxing nerds by Jon Sitzman +61
28) I haven't crawled too far down this rabbit hole... by Zadatz +59
28) Thank you for the round-up. by blue jersey mom +59
30) Well, yes. by Magenta +58