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Hrm. I can't remember the last time I wrote... Let me do a quick little double check for the dates first.
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Aside from a lazy emo survey on the 2nd, December 25th? Yeah, a month. At least I'm sticking to my general MO.
Alright, let's see how I can swing into this trend again... Maybe I'll start actually writing more. Maybe I'll have stuff to say for a change? One can hope, after all. I don't think I want to type too long right now, though I'll give it a shot, but oy. I have a big headache pushing at my temples. Though that's from getting up so freaking early and sitting in an office all day being lectured on ISPs and Domain names and Server routing.
See, the main reason for typing here is that I have a new job.
Yes, my days of being lazy and unemployed... AKA, being the usual lonely and miserable me... Have undergone a change. A shift. A metamorphosis, if you will. I entered a chrysalis stage brought on by the environmental factors of 'having no goddamn money', and emerged from it as a struggling wageslave. Not a butterfly. Butterflies are gay.
I applied to a couple jobs in the past few weeks, and only received interviews for two... One was for a call centre for a major credit card company, where I'd essentially be taking complaints all day from people angry to quit the company and having to convince/sell them to stay. This job was across the river, at least a half hour's drive away through the heart of the city, and had hours from eight in the morning until two or three at night.
The second job was for a webhosting company, doing support and maintenace for business owners who called in with issues regarding their company websites or emails, and only a few sales involved. This job was from nine in the morning until seven at night for the position I was applying for, paid the same rate, and was only a five minute drive away.
I desperately wanted to get the second job, even though they were three days late calling back and I was already set to begin with the gas guzzling job... But they did.
So, yesterday and today I've been embarking on the beginning of three weeks in training. So that I will eventually be able to explain, over and over, to computer illiterate business owners that they've set their six email addresses to all forward to each other, and that's why they can't find their mail. (Judging by one of the two calls I sat in on, today.)
But aside from the usual cons that every job has, this one also packs a lot of pros. It's an office job, something I've been craving. The pay is good. It offers full life and health insurance, including dental and eye care. I'll have at least two weeks of vacation a year. And the biggest perk, but one that I have no idea what to do with, is that they give me a free website.
Not just like some dinky one. I mean, like... 300 GB of disk space to play with. 3000 GB of bandwidth a month. And my own domain name.
The problem is that I have no idea what to do with it. Oy. Hell, I can't even decide what I want to use for a domain name, and I have to come up with one tomorrow. But you don't want to take a name that sucks or is unoriginal! And at the same time, you don't want to take a domain name that will be silly or goofy and then do something entirely different with it.
And also, unless I steal some sort of webpage editing software from bittorrent, I'm not sure what I'd do with it. Hell, I'd probably just use it to store pictures or something... But that feels like such a waste, doesn't it? I was also like "I should do a blog!" Of WHAT? I barely force myself to type in this enough as it is. Bah.
I probably think I'll just cave in and go with www.spideychris.com because... Well, I use that for everything I have to make a login name on the spot with. But... What if Marvel sues me!? Zomg! Those felching bastards.
It was suggested that I use www.chrisforthewin.com too. Hrm.
It is such a dilemma. I'm going to be scratching my head over this all night.
(Subliminal message: Go see Cloverfield!)
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Aside from a lazy emo survey on the 2nd, December 25th? Yeah, a month. At least I'm sticking to my general MO.
Alright, let's see how I can swing into this trend again... Maybe I'll start actually writing more. Maybe I'll have stuff to say for a change? One can hope, after all. I don't think I want to type too long right now, though I'll give it a shot, but oy. I have a big headache pushing at my temples. Though that's from getting up so freaking early and sitting in an office all day being lectured on ISPs and Domain names and Server routing.
See, the main reason for typing here is that I have a new job.
Yes, my days of being lazy and unemployed... AKA, being the usual lonely and miserable me... Have undergone a change. A shift. A metamorphosis, if you will. I entered a chrysalis stage brought on by the environmental factors of 'having no goddamn money', and emerged from it as a struggling wageslave. Not a butterfly. Butterflies are gay.
I applied to a couple jobs in the past few weeks, and only received interviews for two... One was for a call centre for a major credit card company, where I'd essentially be taking complaints all day from people angry to quit the company and having to convince/sell them to stay. This job was across the river, at least a half hour's drive away through the heart of the city, and had hours from eight in the morning until two or three at night.
The second job was for a webhosting company, doing support and maintenace for business owners who called in with issues regarding their company websites or emails, and only a few sales involved. This job was from nine in the morning until seven at night for the position I was applying for, paid the same rate, and was only a five minute drive away.
I desperately wanted to get the second job, even though they were three days late calling back and I was already set to begin with the gas guzzling job... But they did.
So, yesterday and today I've been embarking on the beginning of three weeks in training. So that I will eventually be able to explain, over and over, to computer illiterate business owners that they've set their six email addresses to all forward to each other, and that's why they can't find their mail. (Judging by one of the two calls I sat in on, today.)
But aside from the usual cons that every job has, this one also packs a lot of pros. It's an office job, something I've been craving. The pay is good. It offers full life and health insurance, including dental and eye care. I'll have at least two weeks of vacation a year. And the biggest perk, but one that I have no idea what to do with, is that they give me a free website.
Not just like some dinky one. I mean, like... 300 GB of disk space to play with. 3000 GB of bandwidth a month. And my own domain name.
The problem is that I have no idea what to do with it. Oy. Hell, I can't even decide what I want to use for a domain name, and I have to come up with one tomorrow. But you don't want to take a name that sucks or is unoriginal! And at the same time, you don't want to take a domain name that will be silly or goofy and then do something entirely different with it.
And also, unless I steal some sort of webpage editing software from bittorrent, I'm not sure what I'd do with it. Hell, I'd probably just use it to store pictures or something... But that feels like such a waste, doesn't it? I was also like "I should do a blog!" Of WHAT? I barely force myself to type in this enough as it is. Bah.
I probably think I'll just cave in and go with www.spideychris.com because... Well, I use that for everything I have to make a login name on the spot with. But... What if Marvel sues me!? Zomg! Those felching bastards.
It was suggested that I use www.chrisforthewin.com too. Hrm.
It is such a dilemma. I'm going to be scratching my head over this all night.
(Subliminal message: Go see Cloverfield!)