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Why Losing Your Job Is Actually GOOD For Your Career

Things could always be worse.

Right now the world is practically at a standstill in self-quarantine against the Coronavirus. While some people may be working remotely, a lot of businesses are actually closed for operation. A lot of people are out of work right now, and there’s no guarantee they’ll have a job when the pandemic eventually passes.

This can actually be a good thing.

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Epic Fail

New England Patriots in the Super Bowl: then and now

I was in high school when the Patriots made their first Super Bowl appearance in 1986. The Pats finished 11-5 in the regular season under second-year coach Raymond Berry and veteran quarterback Steve Grogan. It was the best regular season finish by New England to that point. They then made an improbable wild-card run through the playoffs and beat Miami in the AFC championship to advance to Super Bowl XX and face the Chicago Bears. Having just “squished the Fish,” confidence was running high in New England that the Patriots would “Berry the Bears.”

Things didn’t go quite as planned.

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Get Up and Walk

Saturday was a shitty day.
Friday was supposed to be a day off, the first day of a three-day weekend. Instead, I ended up not only coming into the office, but working well past midnight. Saturday, I paid for it.
I woke up well after the sun had risen and spent most of the day mindlessly doing useless crap. I’m at that age where if I have a particularly late night, it takes me about 3-4 days for things to settle back to normal. So, a three-day weekend where I was hoping to work on my side hustle, has become one day back at the office, followed by two days of recovery.

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The Map is Not the Territory


Watson Park – Merrimack, NH. This used to be an abandoned factory when I lived here.

Earlier in September, I flew back to New Hampshire for my high school reunion. It had been a full decade since I was back in my home town, and altogether I have only returned back to New Hampshire only six times since graduating college, with the gap in time between each successive visit growing longer than the previous one.

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