new found appreciation for academic freedoms
My top 6 lessons learned from going corporate 6 months ago (AKA reasons I should resign soon):
1. I despise commuting–until someone figures out a way I can blog from the car, I’m over sitting in my car for at least an hour in the morn and sometimes 2 on the way home. It’s Tampa, people, where the hell is everyone going? This place sucks!
2. I hate cubicles–now that the office has added glass partitions and random potted plants, I just feel even more closed in. And word is that they are adding security cameras too! Guess I won’t be blogging from work…
3. I’m not really allowed on the Internet so there goes any chance of catching up on school work from the workplace.
4. I love having the freedom to make impromptu travel plans but here I have to seek approval. Grrrrrrrrr
5. I just bought a sassy Cannondale bike and long to ride it everywhere but so far I’ve only been out on it once on Sunday.
6. I love sleeping in. Enough said! Actually to make a stronger argument, my best writing happens at night so it’s kind of difficult to stay up late and do that anymore now that I’m up at 6 am, Monday-Friday.
With that said, I’m outta here and off to spoon and dreamland with my AC.
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Sister, we belong in academia (in fact, someone said this about me today). I have almost all the same complaints. The hyper-vigilance of the admins, the early schedule (pure insanity). The only thing I don’t have is a lot of traffic on my commute. And yeah, Tampa must suck because I live in a suburb of Boston and I commute 25-30 miles one way each day and it never takes more than 45 minutes. I write well enough at any time, but I did my best blogging at USF with the Daily Show on — or later.
Gotta go. Hang in there.