It's been years!

I haven't blogged in years.  So much has happened.

that new job at the firm? I lasted 18 months and then they fired me.  I left happily and started a new job at a start up 2 weeks later. 

6 months later the start up fired me.  I was unemployed for 6 months then I got a temporary gig in the city.  I was there for 7 months and then i had to leave.  2 months later I got another job and 10 months later they fired me.
wtf?

so the firm: I was given new clients after they'd done a finance deal so there is basically nothing to do.  after the finance round closes, they have however many millions of dollars to build their company so there's no work.  i couldn't keep my billables up because of instances like this.  and i'd always volunteer to help another paralegal but they didn't want to give their billable work away.

the start up: i went in as a paralegal and left as an account manager.  they role changed weekly.  it isn't anyone's fault, it's the nature of a start up.  that is how they become a company by adjusting all the time.  i am a paralegal, i am no account manager.

the other job: it was pretty good, i made good money and the location was easy.  it was an old company where people were there for decades--30, 40 years!  my mgr was a micro mgr and my predecessor would review my work all the time.  such a bad situation but i was willing to deal with it until the new year.

the temp gig: i remain friends with the woman i covered for and she is leaving next summer to move to Germany with her husband so that job will be available again.

also like a year after diamond passed away i got another dog, liberty.  liberty looks exactly like diamond but she's a different color like a weimaraner color.  but she's a pit

when will I succeed at work?  when?