I never seem to be happy working

I am hardworking. Reasonably clever. Bosses never appreciate this. I don't know why. The best explanation I have is that the vast majority aren't. And so they take advantage of those who are. Like me. Might as well give the work to someone reliable who can do it, and do it well. Credit is theirs, blame is mine. 

This seems to be a repeating trend in my entire working life. Bonus and increments aside, it would really be nice to be appreciated. By anyone. I do my work well. I am tired. For once I would like to work somewhere where hard work and diligence is truly appreciated, where I am not 'rewarded' by more work, but a pat on the back and clearance to go home.

A good friend of mine told me today that in an equal world, that would be the case. But we live in a cruel and unjust world where the strong are rewarded with more work, and the weak are rewarded with gratitude and appreciation. 

And people wonder why my ambition is to become a hermit. 

Books read in 2021

 My annual habit - the books I read in 2021:

1.           The Guest List – Lucy Foley

2.           The Kind Worth Killing – Peter Swanson

3.           The Gilded Cage – Camilla Lackberg

4.           Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins

5.           Hag’s Nook – John Dickson Carr

6.           Bodies from the Library – Tony Medawar (selected and introduced)

7.           Our Constitution – Shad Saleem Faruqi

8.           My Story : Justice in the Wilderness – Tommy Thomas

9.           Before the Fact – Francis Iles

10.        The Red House Mystery – A. A. Milne

11.        Demien – Hermann Hesse

12.        The Inner Eye – Nicholas Humphrey

13.        God Knows – Joseph Heller

14.        The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins

15.        World War II in Minutes – R.G. Grant

16.        Speeches That Made History – Bounty Books (publisher)

17.        Just Six Numbers – Martin Rees

18.        The Beast Must Die – Nicholas Blake

19.        Malice Aforethought – Francis Iles

20.        The Last Séance – Agatha Christie (collection of supernatural stories)

21.        The Silent House – Nell Pattison

22.        When You See Me – Lisa Gardner

23.        The Case of the Constant Suicides – John Dickson Carr

24.        The Hollow Man – John Dickson Carr

25.        The Hands of Mr. Ottermole – Thomas Burke

26.        The Problem of Cell 13 – Jacques Futrelle

27.        The Man in the Passage – G. K. Chesterton

28.        Beloved – Toni Morrison

29.        Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries – Melville Davisson Post

30.        Kill the Major – Paul Malone

31.        Troubled Blood – Robert Galbraith

I will always love mysteries, adventure, thrills! You know, the things I never get in real life 🙄

Happy New Year 2022.