Top Goodreads Librarians (Jan 2025)
Literature

On Being a Top Goodreads Librarian

I’m a Top 30 librarian on Goodreads (in the last week). Have you ever learned something about yourself that made you think—um, whut? Yet at the same, it made complete sense? That’s where my head’s at right now. Let me back up and explain how I got here. Growth of a Goodreads Librarian Goodreads started […]

Long Point Camp fire circle
Life

Figuring It Out

One effect of losing your day job is that you begin to reflect on past work experiences. At least, that’s been an effect on me these last few months. A recent reflection took me back to one of my earliest jobs. During my high school and college years, I worked as a summer camp lifeguard.

Semicolon in the sand
Literature

Kurt Vonnegut and Semicolons

Summary: Kurt Vonnegut advised against using semicolons, but he employed them regularly in his own writing. Learn about the eight different ways he used semicolons: What Vonnegut Said about Semicolons When the topic of semicolons arises, inevitably, someone will mention Kurt Vonnegut. Even people who don’t spend their lives writing, editing, and thinking about punctuation

Authored by Curtis Weyant
Life

Unemployment: Day 12

Let’s talk portfolios. I spent the better part of yesterday cobbling together a writing portfolio. I was prompted to do so by a job that I wanted to apply to — the first one I really liked that required such a thing. Work Product and Attribution The reason it took me so long to put

Squirrel resting on a bench
Life

Unemployment: Day 10

I took the weekend off from being unemployed. Rather, let’s call it a couple half days. A little over week ago, I posted a list of things I was going to do every day to have a successful, sustainable, and hopefully short unemployment transition. I’ve been doing pretty well, completing most things every day. Everyone

Curtis the Lifeguard
Life, Uncategorized

Unemployment: Day 7

Hard to believe it’s been a week already. It’s funny how quickly we can settle into a “new normal,” even if we hope that it’s not normal for long. Moving On I moved a lot as I grew up. By the time I graduated high school, I lived in 9 cities in 3 states and

Upward trend
Life

Unemployment: Day 6

My LinkedIn impressions are up 40,000% in the last 7 days. I’m clearly amazing at engagement. Someone should hire me. Fun Numbers The reality behind the metric is that I rarely posted on LinkedIn before I was laid off last Friday. Since then, I’ve been posting daily. It doesn’t take much to increase 40,000% from

Ghosts
Life

Unemployment: Day 5

I got ghosted. 👻👻 No, this isn’t a post about my dating life (though it’s happened there, too). This is about someone who reached out to me the day I first posted that I had been laid off. SEO CEO According to his LinkedIn profile, the person who reached out was the CEO of an

Man with head on desk
Life

Unemployment: Day 4

Today’s the first day that my jobless status feels “real.” The weekend was a weekend—they weren’t days I would have worked anyway. Yesterday, Monday, I was able to dig in and check off items on my list of daily things to accomplish, making the day pass by fairly quickly. Today, however, it’s been harder to

Bridge path
Life

Unemployment: Day 3

An odd coincidence occurred to me this morning. About 24 years ago, in August 2000, I got my first “real” job in at FleetBoston1 Financial in Waltham, Massachusetts. On August 2024, I lost my most recent job. Although my logical brain knows that coincidences like this don’t really mean anything, I’ve always been fascinated by

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