Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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 worked for a private-sector company that had 200K+ employees (3M). Great(-ish) campus. Freedom to spend 20% of your time 'exploring' -- as long as it didn't impact your deadlines, or muck with the anyone's Gantt chart. Which is to say: No 'exploring'.
The money and hours sucked, but the admins seemed to be happy(-ish). They didn't seem to care if a product shipped or not.
I'm just not sure I could live that way.
Boo creepy foot doctor! (YouTube link.)
HEE!
Secretarial work makes me miserable, but I am not my job. It's hella secure, pays well enough that if I wasn't such a financial moron I'd have a way better savings account and nicer clothes, and the benefits are pretty generous.
I think an administrative job at a university would be great, msbelle. Plus, free college for mac down the line. Plus, once you're in, you can apply for all sorts of other jobs, take classes, all sorts of good stuff. The TIAA CREF retirement package is pretty nice, too. Plus, summers off.
Education discounts on computers and software is pretty good, too.
jobs with beautiful campuses don't exist in NYC.
I worked at Columbia! Bitch of a commute but it was pretty.
Apropos of nothing... Allyson, I feel a rant coming on. You up for a call (if I can remember where I left the phone)?
I found the phone...
Allyson hates me.
Sigh.
Boo Creepy Foot Doctor Funny.
Yay baseball! That was fun.
Working at a college is a sweet gig (well not for me because I am a lowly consultant) but for the actual college employees. Lots of vacay. My college gives manager types laptops, so work from home possibilities. Good benefits. Reduced tuition. Pretty secure (although we went through a big budget crisis about two years ago). But, you have to put up with crazy professors (no offense to any college professors we have on the board who are obviously of the non-crazy variety). Sadly, most of the professors in my program are some of the least capable people on the planet. It's like they used up the last teeny little bit of brain power they had left getting their PhDs, and now they are just full up of crazy and ridiculous with a side of pompous and entitled thrown in for good measure.
Of course this harsh judgement may be a result of the fact that I had to go all the way up to campus to help one of our faculty members run a meeting for five people. That I had been helping him plan. For the last two weeks.
Also, Creepy Foot Doctor is hilarious.
Is Cecil Adams a Buffista? The Straight Dope