You can’t handle the truth!

Speaking with a friend recently who has been applying to jobs, looking to return to a work force that dumped him pretty abruptly.  He’s capable and experienced — and out of work.

He’s had several interviews — several have been quite promising.  He is still unemployed.

He shared two situations that stuck out.  In one, he made [...]

It’s my fault

I recently had a class where the students’ evaluations didn’t match my feelings and thoughts on the class.  I’ve frequently had this experience where the students loved a class I hated, but this was the other way around — I thought things went pretty well; the evals suggested otherwise.  People were polite, but clearly this [...]