i tell a lot of people 'no'

employed?

god, i'd be good at that.

 

I used to do this.....

Got a job interview today and I feel like shit. I have a sore throat and headache but don't want to cancel it. I hope I don't do too badly.

Thankyou, yeah it'll be over before I know it.

The interview (if you can call it that) lasted for almost 2 hours but was very informal. Anyway they offered me a job so i'm pleased to get of the job seekers alllowance!

jewler ie: i make jewlery

Guess who just did someone's tax return?

They're only six months older than me too, holy shit.

Still the same after 10 years, although now I have a higher position and higher salary. And bigger feeling of tiredness.

I am an administrator/coordinator with the University of Houston's Graduate School. I facilitate the revision and creation of graduate degree plans, coursework, run several campus wide committees, among a ton of other duties. been here just over 6 years. I am maybe more tiredness than _slavo_. hahahhahahahhaha

rob! where did the nalgas go! :D

I’m not sure if I ever replied to this, and can’t be bothered to look, but I pivoted from an accounting and business admin job to unemployment to freelance journalism to salary journalism to fucking “enemy of the people” journalism this decade.

Technically speaking, I’m a reporter and entertainment and features editor for a small town newspaper. But that newspaper is part of a bigger regional publishing company, so I do a lot of side shit like newsroom training, creating internship plans serving on the editorial board and being a pain in everyone’s ass.

I’m almost never not working and I make less than I did with the accounting gig, but I’m happier because I’m better at this than I was at that.

Still... probably time to move on soon.

gosling approves

THOSE EYES!!!

*immediately intuitively understands how LinkedIn helps people get jobs instead of just wasting people’s time; gets job*

Gosling FTW

I put a fuck-ton of time and effort into this is the thing.

As you know, Slambang, a mere 5 years ago it was either return to graduate school somehow or make fucking journalism work. I made it work through sheer force of will and sticktoitiveness, so it’s hard to really seriously consider changing things up again. But I’m on the lookout for journalism-adjacent jobs with better pay and bennies.

good job, man. honest hardworking journalism is the occupation that the world is in desperate need these days (=read: in the times of hoax and fake news and hybrid war from Russia)

yes you’ve done well and deserve hearty congrats. however if you’re gonna be working 70 hours a day you might as well get paid for it so that you can take proper care of yourself and not succumb to stress disorders.

whenever you’re ready you gotta start moving to the next level in your career because otherwise you’ll start becoming the indispensible assistant. by which i mean, hierarchy climbers will use your conscientiousness to prop themselves up.

which, you know, it’s part and parcel of the game... but you have to have a surplus to invest in yourself so that you can propel yourself as well.

then again if you’ve reached a “comfortable” place where you can coast for a while it’s time to gather some “fuck you” money. but i don’t think you’re comfortable, correct? if you snap under strain, who will catch you?

gotta build yourself some backup structures for antifragility. i learned this the last recession! lol.

k.

remember to pay yourself first.

Yeah, I don’t make it enough to coast. I don’t make “fuck you” money. If I snap under strain, a newspaper won’t come out.

So yeah. You’re right. I mean, I know you’re right, I just need to balls up.

yes. in the meantime though it helps to cultivate an efficient lifestyle. simplify things, save money and time wherever you can (sometimes mutually exclusive sometimes mutually supportive)

ive been recommending money mustache lately. some people may be rubbed the wrong way for his posturing but he provides good information about the getting and keeping of the fuck you money without necessarily having to make more

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/

throw that spaghetti onto the wall and see what sticks

Airforce. 36 years.

hahahaha fox and his friends

nice setup!

not too terrible

These days, I co-own a vintage shop specializing in furniture mostly, but we also do clothing and records and barware/housewares etc. Naturally I wrangle the record room but I also spend a couple of days a week restoring furniture in the workshop and I bring large heavy things into people's houses of course. I don't think I'm ever going to get away from that. I get to see a lot of different kinds of homes, and it's cool to work in a field I'm actually interested in. It's mostly 50s and 60s Scandinavian stuff, which I think will always do rather well in this area, but there's also the cool fiberglass mod stuff I enjoy and some awesome machine age relics that show their age and their former lives.it's a lot of work and none of us could actually afford to shop at our own store, but I feel very comfortable with what I'm doing for once.

congrats!

that is awesome

proud for you dude

(&grammar be damned—for is more accurate here)

Real Saarinen chairs are pretty expensive. We sold a set of four with a table (all legit) for $8000.00 last year. We have four of the chairs right now actually. Legit ones are hard to come by but we get the Burke version pretty often too.

more or less but with better internet now

satellite was a bitch

still this aint fiber

@savage, that's dope to hear man.

Thanks so much!

For the curious:

http://instagram.com/findfurnish

oh, satellite has improved speed and raised caps in the last couple of years, but it also hiked prices and requires a 2 year contract plus new installation fees. pricey as hell vs. regular service, but would be worth it and a better deal than cell modems if we still lived there.

here for some reason they shaft you on the cell modems

i mean american internet in general is both pricey and mediocre vs other countries

likely smaller/higher population density allows more efficient use of the infrastructure there—just a guess

I just applied for a job in NYC.
Wonder if they'll ever respond.

ah! here’s a mixed bag and only cdma works in my parts