When you’ve just graduated and are still looking for a job, it’s easy to feel like getting that first job will solve all your problems.  Then you get the job offer and it comes with a whole new set of adventures to tackle.  If you’re like me, you plan and implement your move half way [...]

The summer before I left for grad school, I found myself working at a tractor parts warehouse.  It was not my preferred type of employment, but had the advantages of paying well for the area and providing the opportunity for plenty of overtime.  (An unforeseen perk was that I learned to drive a variant of [...]