Have you had a good day at work recently? Has that workday goodness been independent of the goodness of your overall day? I am leaning towards the belief that this is a good sign, if you are on the road to self-actualization. As a culture dominated by capitalistic intent, we have been exposed to media ideals that it is honorable to work yourself to death for the success of a company - that there is no higher calling than "dying for a cause" greater than yourself. One interesting way that this concept has permeated by axiomatic world is Severance, the greatest TV show I've ever watched that managed to follow up on an otherworldly S1 with a conceptually impossible S2. It is a must-watch for the modern office worker - the modern remote worker, the modern tech worker. In the quest to find out who you are, wouldn't it be helpful to know that there are so many others like you?
Dang.
Put a lid on it man.
Yeah. Chill. You asked a question of them. Holy shit. Is this visible?
I had a great day at work today; something I haven't had in a long time. I don't know when the last day was that I deeply, personally cared about what I did at my place of employment. I knew I cared about the mission, but it felt hard to care about anything. I felt like I wasn't in a place I could thrive in, and often indulged in escapism. The last thing I ever wanted to think about was work. Unfortunately, I need to think about work. My job has done me the fantastic favor of surrounding me with people who are smart, ambitious, and driven. In order to keep my job, I must now do those things. One thing I had liked about my job, at one point, was that I didn't have to be those things, but it is time to grow up, and everyone must grow up, and I believe, for the first time in awhile, that I might just have fun growing up.
It is hard to grow up.
It is hard to lose people you care about. It is even harder to let people down you care about. Today, I let someone down that I cared about. I didn't recognize their social and emotional needs, and was so caught up in my own moment I forgot to really think about what would be logically the best thing to be doing. If you're a dedicated reader, or me, you probably know what I'm thinking about. How annoying is that? You little creep.
I did the thing! Wow! I had a great workday, and really freakin killed it. I mean, I was throwin out ideas, left and right. I was displaying domain knowledge I haven't thought about in years. I realized something; a true truth, that I will display on this blog for one night only!
![]() sang-bin jeong visits sejong international school in minnesota to meet local south korean kids who know who he is. he sees every grade, politely helping
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![]() getting read to is awesome. go get read to. ask someone to read to you! audiobooks count, sorta, but i think it's different irl.
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![]() sb7 is a man of the people
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![]() i love the loon in the background chilling. sang bin jeong is chilling
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![]() passage about sb7 doing community work
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![]() SBJ answers some questions
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![]() SB7 gets talked up
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![]() remember this?
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SANG BIN JEONG AND BONGI HLONGWANE, THEY ARE BEST FRIENDS! SOMETHING TO CARE ABOUT! and they're real best friends. they just hang out all the time, beyond what the media portrays. they asked the media to not portray it because it was weird af
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I'm done coding. I don't like doing it right now. I need a break from it. I don't like doing front-end development, I want to think about the kind of stuff we're doing, and make high level decisions. I don't know if I deserve it, but I think I can make a real positive impact. How the hell do I do it? How do I convince my job that I need to take a break from the thing that my job description says I'm hired to do?
I planned a longer payoff for this, but truthfully, I've had a long day. It took a lot out of me, as you've seen. I enjoy living the consequences of a life well lived, but a life well lived makes it harder to write about it. Perhaps that's why there's no secret to life or a magical pill to happiness - it's because anyone who discovered it just did it, and then had no need to create more for others anyways. They were already fulfilled.


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Eli
are you telling me a sang bin this jeong O_o
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Eli
are you telling me a sang bin this jeong O_o
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