Spike ,'Get It Done'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I hate using the phone.
I got lucky at work because the person who had my extension before me sweettalked the IT guy into taking it off the main netword - so that when the receptionist isn't at her desk, I'm the one person who cannot pick up the phone when it rings as we're supposed to do.
I hate using the phone but I can fake it ok. PA systems are a whole other kettle of fish. I should never be allowed near one.
I should never be allowed near one.
Singing or standup?
Speaking of the phone, I pick up the Dean's phone sometimes, and I just got to talk to Lillian Vernon HERSELF. V. exciting.
Lillian Vernon, like, the catalog?
YES!!
Singing or standup?
Neither. I can only Karaoke VERY VERY drunk. And that's never pretty.
WOW!!
I have no phone fear, but I have major PA angst. But I enjoy public speaking. Go figure.
Wow, Jess might win the suckiest jobs of all time award.
My job history, more or less:
Sold products of my sister's dairy farm to local customers who came by and requested them. In Spanish.
Cashier, museum gift shop. Nice, but boring.
Taco Villa. Left after having to pull ungodly filthy underwear out of the drain in the urinal, then clean the obscenties written in taco sauce off the dining room walls.
Miller's Outpost.
College Financial Aid Office
College theater - usher, then lighting tech, then 3 years of stage managing.
College library. Yep, that's 3 simultaneous work-study jobs, for a total of 56 hours/week, and I still couldn't afford textbooks.
Craptastic Dilbertland office job
Foreign Service, admin.
Teacher
Postmaster
Tech Writer
Interface Designer
Project Manager
I don't miss working.
When I worked at WGBH in Boston I got to talk to Alistair Cooke once. Shockingly, he was extraordinarily nice and civil.
And Bob Villa was still working there around the corner. And I got to eat vegetables from The Victory Garden.
When I worked for the Accounting Firm for Hollywood Has-Beens and B-Listers I talked to all kinds of people like: Bobby Womack (soul musician), Art Clokey (invented Gumby), Chris Knight (middle Brady), and Fred Willard (comic actor). We had Lily Tomlin in the rolodex too.