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teiresiasSo, it's about as official as it's going to get: a week from today, I'll be starting orientation at my uncle's surveying company in Bothell.
This job will, I think, be awesome for several reasons: first and foremost, the office is right on the Burke-Gilman Trail, which, for those uninitiated in the ways of Seattle, is a bike path that used to be a railroad, running through the city. I'll be able to ride my bike to work, which will save me from traffic and get me my exercise in one fell swoop. Also, I will learn how to use GPS systems and computer drafting software and all manner of neat procedures, which can only help me later in life. The company also has about 5 employees, which means I'll learn a lot of other things about running a small business, which I can also see being quite useful.
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priorysion once said to me that he'd do just about anything to avoid the 9-to-5 daily grind, and after my recent brush with corporate America, I'm inclined to agree with him. The hours of this new job will, of course, actually be 8 to 5, but a significant portion of that will be fieldwork, actually going out and surveying sites, and to begin with, I'll only be going in three days a week.
Still not sure what I'm going to do with the remaining time-- there's an editorial internship with Seattle Magazine I'm thinking about, as well as a bartending course. I feel like bartending, besides giving flexible hours and lots of potential extra income, might afford me the opportunity to observe enough fascinating human interaction that I might actually be inspired to write fiction again. That, and I would avoid the aforementioned daily grind. I think that that, more than anything else, is the key to happiness.
Despite recent evidence, it may be that I do not, in fact, suck at life.
This job will, I think, be awesome for several reasons: first and foremost, the office is right on the Burke-Gilman Trail, which, for those uninitiated in the ways of Seattle, is a bike path that used to be a railroad, running through the city. I'll be able to ride my bike to work, which will save me from traffic and get me my exercise in one fell swoop. Also, I will learn how to use GPS systems and computer drafting software and all manner of neat procedures, which can only help me later in life. The company also has about 5 employees, which means I'll learn a lot of other things about running a small business, which I can also see being quite useful.
priorysion once said to me that he'd do just about anything to avoid the 9-to-5 daily grind, and after my recent brush with corporate America, I'm inclined to agree with him. The hours of this new job will, of course, actually be 8 to 5, but a significant portion of that will be fieldwork, actually going out and surveying sites, and to begin with, I'll only be going in three days a week. Still not sure what I'm going to do with the remaining time-- there's an editorial internship with Seattle Magazine I'm thinking about, as well as a bartending course. I feel like bartending, besides giving flexible hours and lots of potential extra income, might afford me the opportunity to observe enough fascinating human interaction that I might actually be inspired to write fiction again. That, and I would avoid the aforementioned daily grind. I think that that, more than anything else, is the key to happiness.
Despite recent evidence, it may be that I do not, in fact, suck at life.
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Date: 2005-10-20 08:09 am (UTC)I am seriously reconsidering the collective.
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Date: 2005-10-20 08:14 am (UTC)Are you talking to me, or Jon?
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Date: 2005-10-20 08:22 am (UTC)Congrats on the job, Jon!
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Date: 2005-10-20 08:25 am (UTC)Yes, this is when I fade into existence, scream "BREASTS!", and fade back out.
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Date: 2005-10-20 08:34 am (UTC)Is this a return from the sabatical, or were you forced at gunpoint to make a comment? XD;
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Date: 2005-10-20 09:06 am (UTC)Well... minus the glorious part. :o)
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Date: 2005-10-20 12:12 pm (UTC)Thanks!
Date: 2005-10-20 02:36 pm (UTC)You both rock my life, I hope you know.
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Date: 2005-10-20 08:32 am (UTC)And the only way to make a 9-5 workday worse is to spend it constantly sitting in front of a computer. -ANY- deviation from that is worth severe trauma for. And bartending... just... DAMN. You could -so- get me into a bar if it meant getting to see you do that.
I believe there's an abundance of evidence supporting your rocking at life, not the contrary.
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