I realize that sometimes my blog titles are a little too
grandiose for the
ramblin'-
on's that follow it but I guess I can thank marketing for that. And Michael Bay's theory of "Explosions make every movie awesome and if that I put all those explosions in a 3 minute trailer, people will come see my billion dollar budget movies and be severely disappointed that the other 87 minutes of the movie is poor acting and nails-on-a-chalkboard dialogue." Whoa, that one got away from me.
Alright here we go. Getting into some new territory. I have a new job.
Crap. That news has been delivered many times through this medium, hasn't it. If you want to count every job, then it's... number 6. Jeez. Okay, in order:
#1 - Location: DC / Job: Auction Analyst / Time There: 10 months
#2 - Location: New
Paltz / Job: I call it Operations, my sister would call it Company Gopher. / Time There: 4-5 months
#3 - Location: SF / Job: Recruiter aka Satan's Used Tissues / Time There: 1 week
#4 - Location: SF / Job: Motorcycle Salesman / Time There: 1 week
#5 - Location: SF / Job: Asst Control Buyer for frilly
girly nancy type things / Time There: 5 months
#6 - ...
[Addendum: Yeah, I was at two jobs within a month, each for only a week. Call me what you will but sometimes soul sucking employment isn't worth the measly paycheck they exchange for your values.]
If you want the company name, e-mail me directly or check out either
Facebook or
LinkedIn. No name dropping in these posts to prevent any sort of
interweb-tomfoolery. Here's what I can tell you, and you should be honored that I am even telling you at all, you vagabond. (Sorry, I feel like I just challenged a peeved 19
th century Englishman).
Search Engine Optimization and Pay Per Click advertising / marketing /
interwebness. Basically, it goes like this:
Person - Hey, I am looking for this particular thing! I'll try the Internet.
Internet -
I AM THE MIGHTY INTERNET. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR, PERSON?
Person -Um, oh hey Internet. Whoa, you're tall. Oh right, I'm looking for "this." [Editor's Note - I can't tell you what "this" is].
Internet -
HERE ARE YOUR RESULTS. GO FORTH AND BE INFORMED AND SEEK WHAT BEST MEETS YOUR NEEDS. INTERNET, OUT.[I sorta channeled an Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode for that; It was the one with all the Pop-ups and the random guy is like a Wyzzard, or spelled someway.] Anywho...I work for a little company out of
SOMA near the ball park and it's a breath of fresh air. And by fresh I mean that I am not surrounded by middle-
agers and people worrying about whether or not their colostomy bag is full or not.
To put it this way, the age range is 20 to 36, with the mode being 25 (most likely). There's the standard graphic designers, engineers who are constantly playing
foosball, the sales staff always on the phone and the random smattering of other oddballs who have creative thinking and can
get shit done.Get. Shit Done. This is what I've been looking for all this time. My quest for a job where something is actually accomplished and as a bonus (or requisite) working with the
InterWebs is pretty fulfilling. Oh, and I made it through one full week so that's a good sign, right?
Beyond the job, there was something else I was gonna expound about. I am gonna steal Ed's technique of writing nonsense and worthless words until I can remember what it is because it seems to of worked for Ed on quite a few nonconsecutive occasions. But alas, it's late and this really isn't working for me right now...
So I'll leave you unfulfilled and wanting more. Like... a John with a narcoleptic hooker. (
Yeesh, my bad.).
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