Posted in Employment on Oct 1st, 2007 No Comments »
It’s been a while since my last update. I didn’t want to admit it in public, but it turns out that I just wasn’t ready to “survive without a job”. There was just too much I didn’t know and I didn’t have a large enough aggregate income stream to keep going without a job.
I’ve taken [...]
Posted in Employment, General, Writing/Publishing on Mar 16th, 2007 No Comments »
You know, this whole ‘trying to become autonomous’ thing is a heckuva lot of work.
I guess I could be spending much less time looking busy and collecting a paycheck at a company somewhere, but we all know how unfulfilling that is. Safety sucks.
Now that the reading period for APW is open I’ve received 22 [...]
Posted in Employment, Financial, General on Mar 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
Up until now I’ve been a complete poseur, but now I am officially trying to survive without a job.
Last month my total income from ads, software sales, and the “tip jar” for freeware applications on zetacentauri.com came to a total of 5% of my monthly living expenses. That doesn’t exactly equate to survival, but [...]
Posted in Employment, General, Web Design, Writing/Publishing on Feb 27th, 2007 No Comments »
I went to the place I refer to as “that place I don’t work at anymore but they don’t realize it yet” today. It was emotionally and physically draining. Sure, the place issues paychecks, but I just don’t have time to go there. So many more important things to do… I didn’t [...]
Posted in Employment, General on Feb 21st, 2007 No Comments »
I’m rapidly getting to the point where working for someone else isn’t worth it at any price. I have too much that is too important to me to be sitting at a desk doing something I don’t care about and am entirely uninspired by. No matter what I’m doing for an employer I [...]
Posted in Employment, General, Web Design on Feb 16th, 2007 No Comments »
One of the worst things about working for someone else can be filling out a timesheet. This is especially true when you’re doing work that is supposed to be charged to various account numbers. It’s even better when you have to redo a timesheet because account codes have changed and nobody bothered to [...]
Posted in Employment, General, Web Design on Feb 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Slept in and eventually went to work today only to find that the parking lot hadn’t been plowed and the building wasn’t open. It’s so nice that it wasn’t important enough to tell me that it was closed. An hour of driving round-trip for nothing is no big deal - it’s the kind [...]