You slog for hours in sleet and snow, get soaked to the bone, and then come inside, change into warm jammies, and relax by a fire. Then you have to put your wet, nasty clothes back on and go back out in the sleet. That's how it feels when I have to go back to work after a break.

Higher Ed can be a wonderful life for the right person. For a decade I had that life and was that person. Then I moved schools and the past decade has been somewhat nightmarish. My work situation is toxic, to put it succinctly. Now, after two months of forced-layoff (i.e. summer) I have to go back again, and it's worse than any year before this. I'm going back into a crab bucket of colleagues with admins who make the Pointy Haired Boss look benign, and a culture that has leaned into student-complaints-as-a-service.

I kind of hate my job, overall. It is by far the main source of stress in my life. I can't afford to retire, and the job market for remote research/data science--especially for those of us who haven't spent the last 5 years building AI pipelines--is very tight, especially with tens or hundreds of thousands of laid-off government workers, contractors, and consultants after Elon's government smash-and-grab.

Just complaining, nothing needed. Now I need to go to campus for the first time since June and get some shit from my office, pick up my new parking pass, etc. I'll be OK when I settle into the grind of teaching, before the first student complaints come anonymously through my Chair. I probably have a couple of weeks before then.

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