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economics/impulses/parentheses/Work

Posted on Monday, March 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Jobs have become acts of charity for corporations. Sarah Kendzior, 2015

poem/Work

A Procrastinator’s Love Song

Posted on Tuesday, January 29th, 2019 by Will Cox

Lots of things to do, there are lots of things to do.Lots of things to do, there are lots of things to do.If I got up this morn, then I could do them too.Lots o...

communication/learning/Work

Feedback

Posted on Friday, May 18th, 2018 by Will Cox

I don’t recall many of my college successes with great clarity, but I do recall my few failures. Two in particular stand out: both D’s on short pape...

family/Work

To Do List

Posted on Friday, April 13th, 2018 by Will Cox

Home Economics is not "Consumer Sciences"

Place/Work

Step Away From the Computer

Posted on Tuesday, February 13th, 2018 by Will Cox

Nestled among the advertisements for upscale apartments (Enjoy Four Seasons Fort Lauderdale! Only $4,300,000!) in this week’s edition of The New York Time...

Books/economics/Work

Science Fiction was never entirely about The Future

Posted on Sunday, January 28th, 2018 by Will Cox

I’ve been reading stories from the November/December 2017 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine that I picked up at Barnes & Noble before C...

family/Work

Envy

Posted on Tuesday, December 5th, 2017 by Will Cox

Looking at my résumé, I feel like I have to justify the decisions I’ve made. It’s not the curriculum vitae I thought I’d have. At each step al...

Work

A Happy Little Working Song

Posted on Friday, December 1st, 2017 by Will Cox

This still doesn't answer the question of how to afford food without a job.

family/Work

Need-Blind

Posted on Wednesday, November 29th, 2017 by Will Cox

The ocean of the Internet tosses up interesting flotsam, and then it sinks below the surface again. I read some passing reference, perhaps by Niall Ferguson, to...

Work

The Timesheet

Posted on Tuesday, November 14th, 2017 by Will Cox

Today is a sick day. I’m not often sick. Well, here I am: sick again. It’s not from work, exactly. My love brought something back from Santa Fe, and...

family/Work

Attention Must Be Paid

Posted on Monday, November 6th, 2017 by Will Cox

My work — the employment for which I’m paid, that is — is invisible. Nothing to see here; move along. Long ago, the company asked us to let un...

Place/Work

In the Scriptorium

Posted on Monday, November 6th, 2017 by Will Cox

Only try to do it yourself and you will learn how arduous is the writer’s task. It dims your eyes, makes your back ache, and knits your chest and belly to...

Work

Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

Posted on Friday, November 3rd, 2017 by Will Cox

The most satisfying work I’ve done has been sweeping an empty room, turning off the lights, and closing the door. Because the work was done. Had come to a...

family/Work

Publish, or Die Trying

Posted on Wednesday, October 25th, 2017 by Will Cox

My father is a Presbyterian minister, and has been for fifty years. Sometimes I hear rumors that he’s retired, but it’s a working retirement. His la...

liberty/rant/Work

Who Forged These Chains?

Posted on Friday, June 30th, 2017 by Will Cox

For someone who works with computers, I have very little respect for them. Perhaps that’s left over from a programming class where the teacher reminded us...

Place/transportation/Work

Be Careful What You Wish For

Posted on Wednesday, February 15th, 2017 by Will Cox

Norway’s SlowTV film of the Bergen to Oslo railway is beautiful and deeply moving: nostalgic. Though I’ve never been to Norway, I’ve ridden tr...

General/Work

What Are You Here For?

Posted on Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 by Will Cox

I have, since I found out about it, wanted to go to space. I remember, vividly, watching Star Trek in color in the basement of a friend who had television and s...

Work

What is Work? What is Rest?

Posted on Thursday, May 12th, 2016 by Will Cox

I spent the other day driving around. First to the doctor, where he confirmed my self-diagnosis of bronchitis, and then across the county for an x-ray to elimin...

Work

Qualification

Posted on Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 by Will Cox

Certain things aren’t talked about — or at least are avoided because they are uncomfortable to talk about — in polite society; that is, beyond our immediate cir...

law/Work

Sorry. Procedures.

Posted on Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 by Will Cox

I’m reading an excellent book right now that’s discussing how we surrender our judgment to detailed rules and procedures: The Death of Common Sense: How Law is ...

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