Items of Note Regarding My First Week of Self-Employment
I think I’m just as amazed as you people probably are that I actually worked a solid 40 hours. More, if you count the time I spent on my portfolio. Read more for observed positives and negatives after one week.
I am now self-employed.
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Bringing your goddam kids into the office
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Mike Rowe: We are engaged in a civil war on work.
A fantastic speech on what Mike Rowe has learned hosting Dirty Jobs and doing work with sweaty, stinky america.
What do you do?
For a living, that is. What’s your day-to-day like? I know all of you, but I can’t say I have an idea what you spend all your days doing.
The Tim Chronicles Vol 4: Latent Neo-Nazism?
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Sammy tells a story
Had this sitting in an IM window when I got back from lunch:
12:25:30 PM Sammy B: We had to draw pictures of a bisected onion today.
12:25:44 PM Sammy B: When I was finished drawing mine, I realized the center of it looked kinda like a vagina.
12:25:52 PM Sammy B: I disposed of the worksheet immediately.
My Pre-Ruined Weekend
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Calling In/Out to Work
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The internet can teach you terrible things about people you know.
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How many Dilbert comics have to mirror your real life experiences before it's officially depressing?
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I hate Piano Man, 102.9 WMGK
The song used to be a lot of fun, I’ll admit. But years of overplaying has soured me on it. So this week, they’re expanding our office and there’s a huge whole in the wall behind my desk covered with thin plastic which hides the construction and construction workers doing said construction. These construction workers apparently love the local classic rock station 102.9 WMGK and are not aware of the rather weak acoustic properties of a thin sheet of plastic.
I work for the government.
Awful. I know. But I have my reasons. The absolutely ridiculous volume of training they force me to complete year in and year out is definitely not among them, however. Until now.
I hate habitat for humanity
SO MUCH. I did it for the first time today. All the other teams got to do cool shit like nail drywall or lay cement. What did we do?
The All-time #1 worst web assignment of my life
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My Brain is Fried
I honeslty thought it was thursday. All day I thought it was thursday. Dave starts packing up to leave cause we have early out fridays and I’m like “oh, leaving early?”
What's a Guy To Do?
So, a recent development at my job had me thinking I was finally turning the corner. But…
Attn: Portal Fans
I just accidentally reply-all’d to most of the company telling them the March Birthdays cake that will be in the kitchen at 2:30 is a lie.
Ooops.