{"id":1975,"date":"2020-08-10T11:22:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T15:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2020-08-10T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T15:22:18","slug":"update-looking-for-work-in-all-the-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/10\/update-looking-for-work-in-all-the-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Looking for Work in ALL the Places"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_88 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\"><p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Today on the Lstrblg...<\/p>\n<\/div><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/10\/update-looking-for-work-in-all-the-places\/#Update\" >Update<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/10\/update-looking-for-work-in-all-the-places\/#Review_Six_Frigates\" >Review: Six Frigates<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Update\"><\/span>Update<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I decided early on in the Great Isidening that I wasn\u2019t going to push it. I rejiggered this site and decided I\u2019d write if I felt the urge. I was still grieving the loss of my job\u2014or at least succumbing to a low grade melancholy that arose from the realization that the entire enterprise had been a bit of waste. Life was about experiences, and being laid-off was a new experience for me, for certain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or, at least that\u2019s what I told the C-suite exec who pulled me aside after a meeting to tell me what I already knew\u2014it was on the chart in front of me during the meeting and the presenter had the courtesy to appear chagrined: the cuts to the payroll would come across like a tiger\u2019s paw and Communications would be gouged deeply. So, I knew before my boss did. She had assured me, a month previous, that Comms was too lean to get cut further. I think she believed it too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had been planning on leaving even before the 4Q19 results came out. It wasn\u2019t quite the most glamorous position, and the commute was slowly murdering me. I felt more than a little ashamed to have been recruited so easily from a good position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, I\u2019m writing now. My last meager severance payment has been made and it looks like another month or more before I receive unemployment. Fortunately, my wife and I are savers. I\u2019d like to say that we have a grand plan for financial independence, but largely we save out of an innate frugality and fear of doing the wrong thing with what we have. We need a new car (the beautiful old Saturn Vue was finally put to rest after an incident with a deer on the Pennsylvania Turnpike) and we\u2019ve been making due with the terrible Ford Focus I bought to commute. We\u2019ll likely replace both, along with our leaky home windows, once we\u2019re on a better footing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re engaged in a minor competition to find a new job first, which my wife is winning. The deal had always been that one of us would work full-time while the other stayed at home with the kids. While I\u2019ve had a few nibbles, Aly has already landed two offers. The first offer didn\u2019t work out, regrettably, but the second one might.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, secure in knowledge that my family would be provided for (and a fully-paid up life insurance policy), I decided to fulfill an old dream to bike to the shore this past weekend. 78 miles, with exactly no training. I\u2019ll share some details tomorrow, but (not to spoil things) I lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Review_Six_Frigates\"><\/span>Review: Six Frigates<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the great joys of life is reading about death at sea during the summertime, whether that\u2019s historical, fictional or scientifical. I\u2019ve been sitting on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B000W5MINK\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1\">Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy<\/a><\/em> by Ian W. Toll since last summer. It was recommended to me by a retired admiral with whom I once worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I admit, I was a bit hesitant to begin despite the rave review&#8211;or perhaps because of it. Specialists steeped in the history of given topic often like to show off their knowledge of minutia and, for some reason, I often find sailing minutia particularly tedious. I like a bit of detail for verisimilitude, but I prefer not to steep in sailing jargon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortunately, I had nothing to fear. Toll did a fine job of threading the needle between too much talk about canvas and too little context. <em>Six Frigates<\/em> was well worth the wait, which is your blanket review. It follows the inception of the U.S. Navy post-Independence with the construction of the titular ships, themselves revolutionary in their time&#8211;a combination of speed and firepower&#8211;that the fledgling nation to project its power for the first time. Toll does good work of covering the Barbary Pirates and the significance of the oft-overlooked War of 1812 in establishing the United States as a minor global power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, to keep with summer reading theme, Toll presents some ripping descriptions of battle. Good stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update I decided early on in the Great Isidening that I wasn\u2019t going to push it. I rejiggered this site and decided I\u2019d write if I felt the urge. 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