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		<title>Next step</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to finish school early in March. I&#8217;m so sick of burning the candle at both ends without any life balance&#8230; I&#8217;m burned out. Working so hard to pay for MBA &#38; MS, director level responsibility at work and living at home not even able to break even with tuition and other expenses. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pittcon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pittcon was amazing and reinforced that I really love this industry. I&#8217;m working incredibly hard at 60-70 hour weeks with dual masters degree work on top of this, so I am keeping a weary eye for burnout. I get very tired sometimes, physically and emotionally. Still I have the focus and momentum&#8230; things are exciting and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Carpet, New Beginnings, Life is Good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So after 10+  years of this eggplant color carpet, the parentals have arranged to have the carpet redone. Lots of memories and history with this purple haze, though I&#8217;m not particularly hung up on the carpet. More so, I am fixed on the mock moving out to clear the space for the new carpet. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tired</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Work is doing great, short story we&#8217;re growing&#8230; I am not going to blog too much about work anymore because there is a lot of strategy and it would not be wise to share this with the world and competitors. Not that anyone reads this blog of course&#8230;  this is more a journal for my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh Neglected Blog, Hai There</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written in a long time. Recent things regarding work: Went to Germany in April for Analytica. Mostly all work but still amazing. I had never been to Europe since it was never practical, and what better way than to have a company trip! Hopefully going to distributor meeting during Oktoberfest this year. Application [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day in, day out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things are good, things are great: Great job, great company, recent UCLA grad, currently doing fully employed masters programs, have hobbies, surrounded by loved ones. Still, i float through numb and unaffected. I lie to myself and psyche myself up for things I don&#8217;t really care. A constant nagging of apathy and dispair; I fend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Day as a Grad Student</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I start school again. A fully employed MS Biotech/MBA through CSUCI allows me to earn two masters degrees while working full time. Most of the classes are offered in the Thousand Oaks off-campus location. I will be taking MGT 471 Project Management, BUS 502 Quantitative Methods for Decision Making, BIOL 504 Molecular Cell Biology, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1st Day of Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I started my first day and I tagged along to USC to demo a photometer. Then some time in the office getting setup with user accounts and email. It was a great introduction and I can see this being a really rewarding job.]]></description>
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		<title>New Job &#8211; Implen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I fill out the W2 and finalize the offer and paperwork. I&#8217;m so excited and nervous that I can&#8217;t sleep. Also, I want a Smart Car. These things repeat over and over in my head and keep me awake. Really, let it go, tomorrow will come. I&#8217;ll enjoy it much more if I can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next Step</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have finally admitted to myself that I do not like or want to work in a research lab. It was a scarey thought that I repressed and ignored while in college, because I had no plan B. I knew if I gave plan A up of research, motivation for school would plummet. So now [...]]]></description>
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