mindfulness

  • 14 years in Quebec: an immigrant’s path to a fulfilling professional life – 4

    My seven months at Pardeux is a time I could probably write a book about. Closer to home, the company was everything I wanted, and it was heaven when I was hired. But soon I saw that the time came for me to have a nasty boss, again. 🙂 A person can be dark and…

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  • 14 years in Quebec: an immigrant’s path to a fulfilling professional life – 3

    So In 2017, I started looking for work – again. I built a portfolio (a great friend helped me), had 2 interviews and the second interview gave me a full-time job as an Instructional Designer with Novaconcept, an elearning company in Montreal. I was ecstatic. G., the president and senior ID, is an emphatic, competent…

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  • 14 years in Quebec: an immigrant’s path to a fulfilling professional life – 2

    So early 2010, I lost my job as a project manager in translation. The boss there had made me feel incompetent and dumb. I thought that translation was not for me, project management even less so, so I ran back to where I had been happy before: language classes, teaching, education, and people! For the…

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  • 14 years in Quebec: an immigrant’s path to a fulfilling professional life – 1

    I started working when I was 21, freshly graduating from college in summer 2000. I quickly found a job as an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) instructor in a vocational school in Chisinau, Moldova. After three months though, I left to teach EFL in a big private school. I was delighted: full-time work, good…

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  • Unde gasim linistea interioara?

    … e launtrica linistea interioara, desigur. e acolo, in inima sau in minte, sau in ambele. si azi vreau sa admit ca-i admir pe cei care sint linistiti launtric intotdeauna, necatind la ce li se intimpla. sotul meu e asa… nu are pretentii, nu se plinge, intruna zimbeste, si face ce are de facut fara…

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  • Social media si eu: love-hate relationship

    Azi incep un detox Facebook. Azi am decis ca e timpul sa-mi traiesc viata in afara ochilor lumii. Azi am zis stop tuturor conflictelor, mici si mari, care le-am avut online si offline, si ma apuc de impletit, de copt piine si placinte, si de alergat diminetile. Sa vedem cum merge. Peste o saptamina, revin…

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