Working Saturdays is FUN!

So, I get suckered into working on a Saturday at my projectionist job. Not just a Saturday, mind you, but an 8:30am start. Then, yesterday it turns out they need me to come in at 7:30am to make sure the client has what they need. Turns out they may not even screen anything and will just be using the big room to shoot stuff for a Discovery channel show in it. Robert Osborne will be in the house later this morning.... WAHOO!!!

Actually, I like him quite a bit. I even have a copy of a commercial he did back in the 80s for a psychic hotline--I think I even remember his dialogue from it "I'm Robert Osborne and I endorse xyz hotline and it is endorsed by the stars."

Whatever the hell that means.

Anyway, so now it looks like I'll just be babysitting, which I guess is fine except for the fact that I reeeeally wanted to sleep in today. I'll just have to sleep in tomorrow. Monday morning I've actually got a court appearance. My lawyer is trying to have that lawsuit dismissed. Man, I'll be so happy when that is all over with. It's clearly an illegal lawsuit but since I'm clueless how the law works I may still get screwed. Hopefully my lawyer knows what he's doing.

So, I'm just sitting here. I was going to back up some files to my box.net account, but they were on my 3g iPod which can't get power from my usb port and alas, it seems that my iPod has met the same fate as so many others--the battery is having trouble holding a charge for very long. So sad...

Instead, I think I'll work on the site. I've been slowly retooling the look since the footer refuses to display properly and the sidebar was getting too cluttered for my tastes. You might expect to see some weirdness over the next day or so, but by Monday things will be stable. Or at least, I hope they'll be. :)

Anyway, I hope you're having a great weekend! I'm making $15/hr to babysit and work on my site. That's pretty cool, actually...

Remember The Tick's Nightmare Job?

I've got the Tick's nightmare job.

Remember that one episode of the cartoon where some random badguy (I think) made the Tick imagine his worst nightmare and it was him being trapped in a desk job?

That's what I'm dealing with.

It's not so much the desk job itself I hate, though. The work is fine, brain-numbing data entry. It's just that I'm so drained when I get home I don't want to spend the last five hours of my day making another effort. I want to relax, have fun and not feel like I have to do anything.

Alas, I must. This bites. I need to get a job as a writer or make some serious money off of things I've written.

In short, I'm hating my life right now. This is precisely what I feared most about going back to a 9-5er--no--it's worse. I get absolutely nothing out of my dayjob. To me it doesn't make sense to spend most of your waking hours working for some company and not for your overall benefit. Sure, you get paid, but that's just compensation for the work you do. You don't actually get ahead. You just spin your wheels. When I work as a projectionist, I at least get to study the movies I watch or bring my sketch book along and draw if I'm not going to watch the movies.

The only thing I get to do at my 9-5er is listen to podcasts all day. Big deal--I can do that while I'm drawing at my screenings that I'm not watching.

I just don't want to spend 10 hours out of my day (8hrs+lunch and commute) working for someone else's benefit while wasting my life away. I get so frustrated when I look around at other people in the world and see them not noticing that they're just wage slaves and any dreams they might have had as kids are long dead, yet still things they could go after if only they bothered resurrecting those dreams.

Instead most of us just climb on the treadmill, too afraid to risk anything...