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Five Things I Learned at Work this Week

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Okay, honestly, two weeks–my first two weeks on the new development/grant-writing job.

  1. When you’re “of a certain age,” the best desk chair is the one that makes you sit up straight.
  2. Budgeting can actually be fun, when you’ve got a workshop teacher who sees said budgets as “telling a story.”
  3. A seven-minute commute is just as stupendously fantastic as you predicted it would be.
  4. Your teenage son can (totally and easily) survive fewer hours of your scintillating presence than he is used to being tortured graced with.
  5. New [people, places, tasks: take your pick!] shake up and wake up your brain.

Here’s to change–the good kind, anyway!

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Becky Levine is a children's book writer, working hard to strengthen her picture-books skills. She is the author of The Writing & Critique Group Survival Guide, a book to help you get started with a critique group, learn to revise from a critique, and strengthen your own critiquing powers. She has also published two nonfiction children's books with Capstone Press. She is currently seeking representation. Becky lives in California's Santa Cruz mountains, where she spends a lot of time sitting on the couch, knitting needles in hand, thinking through the next revision. At her day job, she writes grants for a nonprofit healthcare organization.

4 thoughts on “Five Things I Learned at Work this Week”

  2. You almost convinced me on the budget thing. However, it’s a story I prefer to let others tell.

    Thanks for the light-hearted post. I need to learn to blog so shortly and sweetly!

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    1. Boy, is it something I need to learn, too. The Friday Fives seem to be the only way I can get there!

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