The Drunken Blog

A question that I keep getting asked is how I like my new job. I don’t really have a real, scripted answer for that question, so I usually just make something up by the seat of my pants (speaking of which, I just thought about that saying - by the seat of my pants, and so far as I can tell, it literally means you’re talking out of your ass). The response usually varies somewhat, but it’s basically the same, “Ya, I like it, it’s a lot better than my old one” etc. etc.

In reality, though, I am pretty indifferent towards my new job.I don’t like it, but I don’t not like it either. I do a lot of menial tedious work here. From going through thousands of survey questions in the database to make sure there are no grammatical errors, to copying and pasting survey questions from one document to another, or taking the number associated with that question in one form and finding the question that it goes with in another form and pasting it there.

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We’ve all had days where at the end of it you want nothing more than a drink. Yesterday was one of those days for me. It was just a long day with a 7 hour meeting. I was tired. The sad thing was, I wasn’t even going to get to go to happy hour because I had plans to see the lighting of the tree at the Capital Building. Of course, I would have walked into the closest bar after that, but delayed gratification and I don’t get along very well, so I wasn’t very upset when I got cancelled on for the tree.

I went to Chadwicks and everybody that I knew was already there, so I started off the festivities. I was going to see something get lit that night, and if I couldn’t see the Capital tree get lit, it might as well be me getting lit.

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How often can you say that you just experienced the pinnacle of anything? Most of the time you probably don’t even know that you just did something, and in that category nothing for the rest of your life will ever compare. That happened to me yesterday. I had a ham sandwich, and I can say with 99.97% certainty that I will never have a ham sandwich that compares to that one.

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Irony – you can’t spell it without the “o”, with is also in “month”, which is about how long I have been working at AIR, which you can’t spell without the “r” in irony. Really, it’s just a big perverse circle of letters being used in one word, only to be abandoned for another word with little or no remorse. I’m just glad that I’m not a letter.

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I’ve worked with some overweight people in my time, I don’t have any problems with them, they do their work, I do my work, we talk, it’s fine, no problems at all. No problems until the other day that is.

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I’ve been at work for an entire week now. Things have changed pretty significantly in that I now have work to do sometimes. I still have a lot of down time, but if you look at my outlook calendar, one would wonder how I have any free time at all. I had to work last Saturday, and I have to work this coming Saturday as well. I’m not really a fan of this working on Saturday stuff. That’s why when I got a call from SRA saying they wanted to “reconnect” I got pretty excited. They called me on Friday sometime. I didn’t actually get the call, just the message. I gave them a call on Monday and spoke to the guy. Sadly, the job was for the same job for which I had previously interviewed; a call center job making $27k. He wasn’t too sure, and seemed a bit discombobulated. I told him if that was indeed what they had open, I was not interested, but if it’s anything else, I would be more than interested.I already am having fantasies of coming into work and saying to my boss, “hey, you know how you made me work those Saturdays? Well, I really don’t like working Saturdays, so I found a new job.” That would be pretty sweet. But seriously, one of the biggest reasons I took this new job was so that I wouldn’t work weekends. Supposedly, it is only temporary, but these things, from my experience, tend to be slippery slopes.

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Staring blankly into my screen, I think that’s what I’ve been doing for the past 15 minutes. I just realized I was doing it when my eyes started to hurt. I don’t really like the old fashioned CRT monitors. I guess I’m just a lowly research assistant, so I’m not entitled to a nice LCD monitor yet. Today has easily been my hardest day at work. Granted this is day two. But I had to figure out how to occupy my time for 8 hours. That’s a really long time to stay occupied. I mean, there is only so much you can do on the internet (I mean, only so much is appropriate for work).I got in today around 8:30. I had some training that I didn’t finish from yesterday, so I started off doing that. It took me about 20 minutes; it was supposed to take three hours. I was a little disappointed at the swiftness with which I finished the training – I was hoping it would kill more time than it did. I then finished all of the paperwork that I had. Health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, retirement plan, the whole 9 yards. It was a lot of fun. I even got to order my business cards. I wonder when they will come in?

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