My current company has been my dream company since I was a teenager. That the pandemic exposed my boss as a monster was truly disappointing, but I thought I could work around and over her and keep trucking on.

It wasn't until that paperwork that I understood that she doesn't see herself anywhere close to how she is. And that she was going to block me from moving around and over her ... and not even out of spite, out of incompetence.


So when I hit the market again. Man. It felt good to remind myself through emails and the like, just exactly who I am and who I was. We had a conversation two days ago, about my notice to leave and she kept bringing up all of these things about my work and how we misaligned, not a bad conversation; but just free of the context that for over a year now we've been in a pandemic, in which I had two small kids in the house, and that I've had to teach myself the job. That part just completely doesn't factor into the conversation. That I've been on quarantine longer than I was an employee before quarantine.

All to say. When the offers came in,they were good, really good. And then one came in that was dumb good. We will see what the work entails, because you can know a job but not know what the work is ... but sheesh.

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“There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus