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spent a week in St. Catharines

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

I pulled the plug on my job of all of eight months and went to visit with my grandparents in St. Catharines for a week. I definitely needed the time away. I found myself thrust into a management role for the first time but lacking the support to make that actually work. And then it became clear that the business model is a build-and-flip with little value being added, and little in the way of upside for me visible in the future. And the icing on the cake is that I'm supporting a boss with little education, ability, focus, or drive. When I visited my father in Calgary last year he described me as "completely exhausted" and that hasn't gone away.

Note from 2021.12.31: Your grandfather would be dead before the end of the 20th Century. He warned me, to my confusion, that there would be no inheritance for me. I guess he figured I was hanging around sensing that he was dying and trying to make an impression. I never understood that man or any of the men in my family and I guess I never will.