If there is even such a word, or phrase. My boss(es) remind me of famous people when being interviewed and they can’t say anything too straightforward so they kinda say something bland and generic/inoffensive but forgettable, during big meetings.
(Context: my boss thinks her team is stellar when we truly have communication style issues.)
I am starting the last book of the Neopolitan quartet by Elena Ferrante and I’m legitimately planning to just read a maximum of ten pages per day so it doesn’t end too soon. I want to savour it so much that every detail is sealed in my memory.
What are the books that have evoked the ‘don’t want it to be over’ feeling for you, before you’d finished them?
I (33) will reach the 5th year mark at my current job come September --- I started applying to higher-level internal jobs about two years in, with callbacks few and far between let alone interviews. I work in higher education administration.
Over the past ~2 years, when I wanted to salvage my self-confidence by seeing whether same-level jobs would give me a callback, I do usually get an interview and have been offered the job once. But I eventually turned it down because I didn’t want to jump for hardly any difference in salary.
It's getting to the point where I am just so bored at my current job though, and every day I'm basically on autopilot. My boss/coworkers find me reliable and a decent worker, and like me enough, but I’ve already hit a ceiling here..
TL;DR: do you have any experience jumping laterally and it ended up being a great decision? Or should I just keep waiting for that higher pay grade job and keep my head down at my current job/plug away until then?
Scratching my head on why people don't realize this when talking. For instance they'd say something like "I was shopping at Costco and bought too much rotiserrie chicken so I gave one to Julian." Like I am supposed to just know who Julian is without a label before his name, e.g."my partner" or "my friend" or "my brother".
Should have read this way sooner. I’m just glad all the rest of the series is out so I can run to my local library to get the next one (and the next two), otherwise that last-page last-paragraph cliffhanger would be brutal. So glad I picked this one up after seeing an avid reader finishing it and giving it higher rating than usual.
I loved the emotionally nuanced storytelling of these two young women and I think it’s skillful contrast by the author how Lila, as clever and capable as she is, is still sort of willingly confined to her community whereas Elena is more ordinary textbook smart (and maybe less money/business-oriented) but wants to carve a path out of her “pleb” upbringing. I think this is such a beautiful novel of realistic characters — no one is a cliche — and I hope every fictional novel I read after this gives me this level of admiration for the storytelling 😭