Focus… focus!

So, finally my brain decided to start working again and my body decided to stop feeling super weak. I’m still coughing and still feel a bit of a congested nose and chest, but do not feel as bad as I used to this past weekend. I am fully aware that the next few days are going to be challenging, particularly because I *have* to get a real job (this academic stuff is unfortunately mostly non-paid or under-paid, so I need a real job – perhaps consulting is calling now!).

Something related to sustainability, urbanization, regional planning, wastewater or solid waste, who knows – I am even willing to jump on the climate change bandwagon.

Fired off a couple of abstracts for conferences I needed to present at, I’m currently revising one of my students’ papers and will probably remain focused for the next few hours (which is good) but I also need to start firing resumes left, right and center.

Gave some serious thought to NOT blogging at all in the next few weeks so that I could focus on job-hunting and academic stuff (that despite the fact that is mostly non-paid or under-paid, is still stuff I *have* to do – you can’t really tell a journal “sorry, I am on a mission to get a real job, that preferably pays big bucks“… reduces your credibility). And somehow I am not 100% sure that environmental jobs pay big bucks.

But hey, if I were in this for the money, I wouldn’t be doing it. I *love* what I do, and despite how much I complain about academia, I love it too.

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