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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Anne W. - Mar 31, 2015 3:49:23 pm PDT #23348 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Thank you, everyone. Jesse, I will be taking you up on that offer in the not-too-distant future.


Rick - Mar 31, 2015 3:53:41 pm PDT #23349 of 30000

it has other benefits?

Well, you spend very little time doing what other people tell you to do, so it is a good match if you don't like doing what other people tell you to do.

It's lower pay for longer hours , but most of those longer hours are spent looking into some idea you got at some point, so if the work is boring or unproductive (and it sometimes is) you have only your self to blame.


-t - Mar 31, 2015 3:56:07 pm PDT #23350 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm sorry to hear that, Anne. Good luck to all of you with dealing with everything.


sarameg - Mar 31, 2015 4:06:09 pm PDT #23351 of 30000

Nanita, if I ever start feeling stuck (or Congressionally laid off) I'll let you know. I like supporting astro because it was truly my first love (and staring at the sky is still my solace) and fuck, I've known the players and personalities and quirks since infancy. There was no learning curve there at all.

And it's a better option than my emergency fallback should I ever need temp work: call center help. I'm glad to be out of it (but still exercise the people handling acquired from it in current work) but I fucking rock it and Have Opinions (which is why when I get good CS, I contact the shit out of the CS, supervisor, company and sing high praise.)


hippocampus - Mar 31, 2015 4:07:46 pm PDT #23352 of 30000
not your mom's socks.

So sorry Anne. Hugs and strength to you and your family.


-t - Mar 31, 2015 4:27:33 pm PDT #23353 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Passover without potatoes or nuts will be challenging.


Hil R. - Mar 31, 2015 5:30:53 pm PDT #23354 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I've got a pretty good idea of what I want to do, but I can't find anyone who'll hire me to do it.


Hil R. - Mar 31, 2015 6:33:37 pm PDT #23355 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Passover without potatoes or nuts will be challenging.

Do you eat kitniyot?


Strix - Mar 31, 2015 6:45:10 pm PDT #23356 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Anne, much-ma to you. My family is going through the same thing with Dad, and it's horrific.


Susan W. - Mar 31, 2015 6:46:52 pm PDT #23357 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

So sorry Anne. Strength to you and yours.

I'm very happy with the current iteration of the day job, which is basically financial compliance monitoring, analysis, and troubleshooting in a university central office. It's reasonably satisfying work, I love my coworkers, and I feel secure in it, given that my boss gives me rave reviews and the highest percentage raise allowed each year (not that it's much, but still). But the only logical steps up would be to either become a manager in my current department or go back to an academic department as an administrator, and both of those in different ways sound like hell to me. I'm much better at managing information and processes than people, so I don't want my boss's job, and if I were an administrator I'd lose the ability to go home at 5:00 every day and not think about work over the weekend. So...I guess I do this another 20-25 years? Maybe?

At the same time I'm rethinking what I want from my writing career. I still love telling stories, but I've become burned out on wrestling with the publishing industry in my current niche thereof. So I'm taking a self-imposed sabbatical at least till our European trip this summer is over to try to figure out where to go from here.