Category: blog
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Inspiration Strikes At Weird Times
I went to bed on Thursday night like any other night (perhaps a little later than normal after getting home kind of late from a local astronomical society meeting), but it was definitely not a normal night of sleep. I slept great until about 2:30am when I had my usual mid-night wakeup to pee. However,…
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Week 8: Quiet Progress, Holding Steady, and Learning to Be Okay with “Enough”
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. This past week didn’t feel dramatic.There were no huge breakthroughs or sweeping changes. Instead, it felt quiet — sometimes heavy, sometimes steady — and full of the kind of progress that’s easy to overlook if you’re only measuring productivity by output. And…
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Week 7: In Between What Was and What’s Next — and Shipping Something Real
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. This week didn’t come with a clean sense of momentum or a big emotional breakthrough. Instead, it lived in the middle — between what my life used to look like and what it’s slowly becoming. Some days felt heavy and unmoored. Others…
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Week 5: Heavy Days, Hard Decisions, and Holding the Line
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. This week didn’t move in a straight line — emotionally or practically. There were moments of momentum, moments of excitement, moments of deep fatigue, and moments where life simply demanded attention all at once. But if there’s one thing this week reinforced,…
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Week 4: Progress Isn’t Linear — But It Is Real
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. This past week reminded me of something I already knew intellectually, but am still learning emotionally: Recovery doesn’t move in a straight line. Some days felt focused and productive. Others were heavy, quiet, or emotionally draining. And yet, when I step back…
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Week 3: Finding Stability in Small Steps: Two Weeks Into My Journey
The Journey Begins: Rebuilding, Recovering, and Moving Forward A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. It’s been a little over two weeks since my role at FanDuel Sports Network came to an end. In that time, I’ve experienced a mixture of emotional highs, quiet challenges, moments of clarity, and…
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Week 2: Mapping the Road Ahead — My Burnout Recovery Plan
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. Last week, I wrote about the shock, relief, confusion, and emotional whiplash that came with losing my job right before Thanksgiving. It was a week of letting things sink in, finding a new rhythm, and beginning to process everything that had led…
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Dinner Time! Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya!
For the first time in probably months, I felt like doing some actual cooking rather than go get take out. I decided I’d make my amazing chicken and sausage jambalaya. Everybody that has tried it has raved about it and I will admit its definitely my favorite thing to make even if it takes longer…
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Week 1: Relief, Reality, and the First Steps Toward Stability
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. (Wednesday before Thanksgiving → Black Friday) This was my first full week of being unemployed — a sentence that still feels a little strange to write. The week started with shock, surged into relief, dipped into sadness, and eventually settled into a…
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The Journey Begins: Rebuilding, Recovering, and Moving Forward
This series will be a candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. Last week, after 3½ years with FanDuel Sports Network, I was let go from my role as a senior .NET software developer. It was unexpected, and like anyone going through a sudden transition, I’ve been feeling a mix…