Looked into Live Journal for the first time in a lo-o-ong time.  People are still here! Sadly, LJ won't let me see more than the last four posts on my friends page - only as far back as August 10. Is this a new thing? Is this my punishment for being gone for so long? Oh, sorry I couldn't spend more time with you, LJ, but I was working!

I left KVIE to work for the Sheriff's Department in parking enforcement.  Not meter maid stuff, but patrolling neighborhoods and fining people for parking on the sidewalk or too far into the street or in a disabled space at Walmart when they're not entitled to.  For a while I felt like I was shitting in people's neighborhoods, then I realized that ( Read more... )

Ha ha!  What a difference a boss makes ( Read more... )

I was so happy to get a job … until I had to actually work there.

My new job is a clusterfuck.  No one will answer a question because usually they don’t know the answer.  No one will look up if anyone asks a question, because it might mean more work.  No one knows enough about the job (or even what their job is) to do more than cursory data entry. ( Read more... )

So, in another lifetime when I was in the Air Force, I was a fighter jet mechanic.   Hmmm, on one of these, actually: 

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I have discovered the kind of work force you get when it is based solely on testing and not interviewing: Middle-aged, accented, not pretty (and sometimes just odd looking) people who know how to do a job or get one started.  These are the people who have been unemployed for as long as I have because, although they may have been the perfect ( Read more... )

Today is the first day of my new job!  From what I gathered over the phone (because there was no interview) it is a clerk position with Census 2010.  I'm guessing that I'll be inputting all of the info from those packages people got.  It would sound extremely boring if I hadn't been unemployed for the last year and three and a half months.  Boyo, I ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning (sadly, as Warren Ellis says, I did not die quietly in the night) and did my usual morning mantra:  "It's...Thursday (because I'll lose track if I don't.)   Need to look for a job."  And then realized that I didn't have to use that anymore.  Because I got a job.

I.  Got a job.  A job.  Where you have to get up early (have to ( Read more... )

A friend of mine...okay, a friend of my daughter's... is the author Marjorie Liu. She writes crazy/exciting urban fantasy novels and X-Men comics. Anywho, PassionFruit Games is making her first novel, "Tiger Eye," into a video game and they're looking for beta testers. For the whopping three people who might read my blog, here is the ( Read more... )

I just had my first PAID voice over gig today! Woo hoo! A producer friend who also no longer works at my old job is doing a pitch for an international non-profit organization and she was nice enough to think of me when it came time to get a VO talent. Me, talent. Snork. The organization is Read more... )