Possumblog

Does getting a new job count as a moron project? I imagine it does if you get a new job that sucks more and pays less.

I am thinking about just giving up on jobs. If I can break my bad habits (sleeping under a roof and eating regular meals), I'm gone.

Dan, I'm thinking now that staying here is the moron project.

Maybe a bit off the track but it reminded me.....I watched Oprah yesterday and she had the guy on there that does the "dirtiest jobs" show. I know that people get paid for knowledge and not for back breaking labor. And I can currently say that I enjoy the fruits of my brain-wave powered job. However, let me just say that it is a crime that someone that has to crawl around a city sewer system to make sure that we aren't up to our ears in it, those people that have to pick up road kill off the highways, people that have to work in blazing heat and freezing cold..... just do NOT get paid enough. Bloody hell I think it's crying shame. I can honestly say that if I had to do those jobs we'd be up to our ears in Poo and dead animals. My pay would have to equal the mega lottery DAILY to work a job like that. As a matter of fact, maybe I should stay late today to make myself look good so I don't endanger my job in any way.

I agree--it's tough to complain when you look around and see all the alternatives that could be so much worse.

My problem is that I ignore those and look around at all the ones that are so much better.

Yeah, I find that it is very hard to complain but I give it that old college try and complain as much as possible.
I've seen the alternatives and I'm holding out for my dream job: working from home. And, no, I don't mean unemployment check collecting. :| One of these days my company is going to get into the "work from home" phenom and decide that having me under their thumb isn't as much fun as it was once thought.

My dream is to be the male equivalent of a millionaire heiress socialite. Failing that, it would be fine if I could be employed in a manner consistent with my vocational training.

People can get paid to clean up after their kids and not talk back to their wives?

Sign me up!

No, no--wrong training. I'm talking about the training I received in school. Should there ever be a call for people who are good at drawing doodles in the margins of notebooks, I should make out like a bandit.

I keep suggesting that Justin should convince him employers to pay him to stay home, but so far, he doesn't think they'd go for that. Such a pity.

Well, maybe he needs to just chuck all that workaday stuff and go into partnership with your son. I think they'd probably make a pretty good legal team, although you would probably have to be careful that Boy doesn't wind up being senior partner through his skillful negotiating.