A letter to Grandma Marty

Work sucks. I can literally feel myself wilting away from it. My extrovert-ness is very upset right now. However, I am waiting to hear back from a company I did a second interview for last week. That actually looks like it has a lot of potential and I'm expecting to hear good things. The company is a tech company and I would be working on one team with six other devs who are in charge of the billing system for one of their websites, which has a lot of business intelligence stuff around it, which I find fascinating. 

I haven't gotten my diploma yet but since the semester just ended, I wasn't expecting anything yet. If I haven't received anything by the end of Feb then I'll start creating a fuss :] And I haven't been waiting for the diploma. If people ask I say I am finished, and I have yet to run into anyone who says "prove it!"

In the meantime, I just started doing this small certificate program through John Hopkins on data science. One of the other PMs that I'm working with (who has become a mentor/good friend) and I are doing it together. https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1?utm_medium=dashboard 

I've also been doing a lot of reading lately. Just finished Yes Please by Amy Poehler, and I must say, Tina Fey's Bossypants (both books are along the same lines) is way better. But I think if I was ten years older with two small children, I would relate to Amy's book better. But at the same time, I love Amy's dont-take-shit-from-anyone attitude towards everything, which I feel like I possess as well - which sometimes comes across as bitchy, but I'm getting better as owning it and surrounding myself with people who dont see it that way and still love me when my bossy pants come out.

I read Yes Please for a book club I joined. I joined two girl-power book clubs and this is the first month I'm meeting with them. One is a potluck at someone's house and the other meets at a bar, so two very different settings and will probably attract different women, but I'm excited to meet the women in both.

And I read http://www.amazon.com/Ceiling-Walls-leadership-career-start-corporate/dp/0967312922 which was a serious learning book but a really good read about how women aren't usually mentored regarding business and financial acumen (bc leadership workshops are built around men and men usually fall down on the communication side, which is where we women excel in) and how that makes it so we are passed up on things and how to "force" people to mentor you about these things. 

I'm still feeling very disconnected but I think a lot of this has to do with the lack of routine in my life. I've always thrived on routine so not having one for this extended period of time, combined with the lack of work (I'm back down to working 20 hours again), makes me very bored and I end up just watching tv. Half the time the only reason I leave the house is bc I force myself to. Once I have a job outside of work it'll get better and I'll be interacting with more people.