career – Open Diary

I hope I know What I’m Doing – The Transition of a Career

EWS

March 5, 2025

Back in August 2024 I made a big transition to my career. For the past 20-ish years I’ve been a computer programmer, which spanned several programming languages, my favorite being C#. However, the company that I work for started transitioning to a new ERP software system last year that our entire...

Accepting My Purpose

Lovely7

December 5, 2023

Hi, I do own a private journal that I write in but having the ability to publicly and anonymously release my thoughts helps when I feel I have no one to speak to or do not want to bother people with my issues. Everyone is dealing with something and I want to be a bright…

Closing Monologue of a Burnt Out High School Teacher

Soul Therapy

September 23, 2018

By 2002, I'd been teaching high school for seven years. I had also been in a relationship with a narcissist, and I was also just beginning to come to terms with the revelation that my childhood had not been normal. I was realizing that everything and everyone I'd ever invested my heart in had a...

What in the actual…..

HippiePhoenix

May 2, 2018

Spewing of random ahead.... be prepared. According to my calculations, I need to make a minimum of $17 dollars an hour to cover all expenses and bills, adding a car payment, insurance, gas, and cell phone. What in the actual fuck. Do you know how much they're out here trying to pay people with de...

Exam Part II Second Attempt

13Spirit

April 19, 2018

I failed. I was feeling real about it, there was a 50% chance it could go any way this morning. Hyping myself up to pass did nothing for me before. Watching the hours of videos didn't help. Remaining calm and taking my time during the exam just made me panic when I started running out…

Hard Not to Give Up Hope

Fresh Jersey Tomato

April 17, 2018

No bites. At anywhere I applied. And I try to stay hopeful. But it is getting hard. I am leaning on my faith, trusting in God that I'm where I'm supposed to be now and will be where I'm supposed to be whenever its time. But the sorrow and depression coming to a tense, hostile…