whore (hôr, hor) n.
A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.

For the duration of my job search, I made a valiant effort to get a job where I would no longer practice healthcare architecture, because I really want to work on a different project type. However, since I apparently have no other marketable architectural skills, I will be doing healthcare at the new job. I am selling what’s left of my architect’s soul for a pay raise and Dental. I simply couldn’t hold out any longer and wait for a job that wasn’t healthcare. And that makes me a whore.

Today is my last day at El Hellhole. (After giving myself a hefty dose of paranoia at Dooce, you’d think I’d stop writing things like that) Although this place was bad news from the start, there are things I could have done to make it better for myself- I simply made the quick decision that I wasn’t staying, and acted accordingly thereafter. I have to make this new job work, and stay at it for a few years (or at least one), to repair the damage to my resume.

I present to you my New Job’s Resolutions:

• I will not do anything to alienate myself from any of my coworkers, no matter how annoying I may find them.
• I will not confide in any coworkers about personal frustrations in the workplace. Especially about other coworkers.
• I will actively try not to complain. Upon failing that, I will try not to complain too much or too loudly.
• I will, at the very least, bring a picture of ManThing to put on my desk, to signify that I plan to stay for a while.
• If a superior does something that makes me angry, I will address it right then, and not let it fester into seething hatred.
• If aforementioned superior continues to do these things after I’ve addressed them, I will document them, so I may sue the J. Crews off them at a later date.
• I will not (outwardly) become touchy and bitter when the subject of my food allergies must be disclosed. (I didn't want to say "brought up," because...ew.)
• I will put more money in savings. If, by some unfortunate karmic twist, this job doesn’t work out, I can take the two-month break I have needed for over a year in order to refresh my attitude towards architecture before looking for another job. So that I won’t consider Container Store a viable option again.
• I will not distract myself by constantly checking hotmail/ other people’s blogs/ my site stats. Not even at lunch. (Wonder how long that one will last)
• I will suppress my attention-craving tendencies, and will not verbally, nor via e-mail, tell anyone (else) about this site.
• I will not post at work.
• I will not post at work.
• I will not post at work.