Ages ago I went into an anecdote about being asked to help someone try to get a research grant, and by help I mean do the fucking work. All of it. This is something of a side story, but it has different themes despite tying into some of the same events. When you see a…
Tag: Work sucks
On being annoying
Currently, I am hustling. I don’t have much secure work to speak of, and I am doing what I can. Part of that entails being flexible to whatever comes along, no matter how much I dislike it. There is a teaching aspect to what i am doing, and for as much as I am not…
S*lF-eMpLoYmEnT – The Bad
Inspiration for this blog comes from many places. Part of it is the pure catharsis of trying to recodify the events of my life in as comical a way as possible. Considering how awful life can be sometimes (all of it, not just my own), little actual work needs to be done. The initial inspiration…
Self employment: The Good
I realize that I am not always the best human being walking the globe. I don’t expect to be. Frankly, I done alright with my mediocrity. But there are at times moments when I realize that everyone is reacting to something and I seem to be reacting in a very different way. My first dose…
Joining the Brass Polishers Union of the RMS Titanic
Back in high school I took a bunch of drafting and technical design classes. One day I came into the class and found along the back wall of the computer lab where the class was hosted was a vector design of the RMS Titanic. “Behold,” the teacher told us, “the symbol of this class!” It…
The co-worker who brought her jeans in to work, part the second
I have previously moaned about some coworker – in fact, I feel like I have done a lot of that. And I have also tried to do so cautiously, with a warning that if you think they are a moron, they likely think you are a moron too. And I also cautioned that often stupidity…
Locus Horribilis 