well that's about it. started a job about 4 and half weeks ago and i am bolting like a FEMA director standing in the path of a hurricane.
what did i learn? commuting sucks hard, an 1.5 hr commute in each direction is mind numbing. i like my sleep, 5 am alarms really bite. townhomes and custom homes are probably the worst things ever created - in conjunction with the likes of Toll Bros, Hovnanian, etc... - i nearly slit my wrists lengthwise the first day i stepped in here. being happy is more important than any amount of money. having more time to do the things that make you happy and following through with them is more important than any financial success. being free of the guilt of thinking you could beat down your ego and work for a firm like this, stupid me, stupid fucking me.
i am off anew at 5pm 092305.
btw anyone interested in doing designs or competitions together? you know collaborating on interesting work? drop me a line, lets see if we're compatible.
competitions beta? some friends and i recently formed a team for such an endeavor. I was already considering some long distance teammates, specifically, my good buddy +q. but he's busy with the whole grad school application process...
oh, and we're doing it as a welcome distraction from our own less than satisfying jobs...freakin' idealism
BOTS - that was funny as hell, and yeah i think that goes without saying.
momentum - driving that everyfreaking day, 1.5 here 1.5 back - how? my wife and i thought it would be temporary thing until she found work around here, it never really materialized and i awoke from my dead presidents coma...
the recent gas prices must have been killing you up there with that drive. thats gotta be almost a full tank a day. it wouldn't suprise me if you spent $650-800 on gass this past month (basing this on you not driving a Hummer or Lamborgini).
hope you enjoy the last drive home when your.. what 19 hours now, is up. enjoy the new place man.
Here's a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry, be happy
In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy now
Don't worry, be happy Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy Don't worry, be happy
Ain't got no place to lay your head
Somebody came and took your bed
Don't worry, be happy
The landlord say your rent is late
He may have to litigate
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy
Working four weeks at this lame ass job
It took me one whole day to say I was robbed
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy, Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy, Don't worry, be happy
good to hear you are giving up the commute. i used to commute an hour each way when i lived on the east coast. it sucked. when i moved to san francisco, i walked to every job i worked at. gawd, i loved it. life is too short to spend that much time traveling to and from a job. good luck beta.
Good luck Beta. I have to travel approximate 3.6kms to work, and I would find that very difficult to give up. I put in 30L of petrol which lasts me approximately 3 weeks. I leave my house at 8.25am and get to work at 8.30pm. I can go home for lunch, and I can also work more, and still see my family becasue I have no commute time.
Sounds like your countdown to leaving, beta, is the same clock as mine for moving into my new house. Sadly my new house is an utter disaster and near unlivable if those guys I hired don't show up to put in my kitchen in the next two hours!! I better get a door on the one working bathroom before they show up...
I lived in an under-renovation house for five years without a kitchen - I was really hoping to avoid that situation this time around, but I guess I can live w/o a kitchen for a week this time if I have to.
Just reminds me of what my clients always have to live through!
lb, did i tell you the one about hosting a derby party with 50 people when we had no kitchen? seriously: no counters, cabs, appliances, etc because we had just sanded the floors. it was an empty room.
over the time without the kitchen, our favorite indian restaurant got to know us really well.
good luck this weekend.
and good luck to you, too, beta and lars. hope you're taking some time out before starting at new jobs.
yeah steven...
i'm quittin without a job to go to...plan to take my time and
find the job i want... i'm thinking probably a month or two
off...plan on painting (art) a few hours a day and working on the
portfolio and a couple furniture designs...maybe a consulting
job here and there..but it's time for me to get back into capital
A architecture.
Good thing that you're leaving but what were you thinking?
You took a job with a company that produces a newsletter called "Markitect" and positions itself as producing "Market-based Ideas and Designs for Today's Builders and Developers."
this goes back about two months ago i wanted to increase my bank in order to pay off debt, student loans and shiite like that and while i was working crap i would do the things that kept my mind sane. it was all about the bank - my dead presidents coma. mea culpa and all that.....i was in a bad place in my head, when i think about it now all i needed was a vacation...
i'm still amazed that people engage in 1.5 hour commutes. i don't drive now, but i used to have a car and i had a 20 minute commute on the freeway. actually not too bad, but even so, i actually found my self screaming in my car for entertainment. i couldn't stand the radio anymore, and the car was sooo isolating. so i just made a habit of screaming as much as possible. nobody could hear me. nobody cared is i was in distress or anything. i'd just let loose as much as possible, kinda like
puddles, i feel you on the commute thing. used to drive to my high school, then drive to work, then drive home each day. with about 1.5 hours in the car each day, i felt like i was losing any life i had. i have never been able to just listen to radio since then. (i have to have earphones at work, or i get pissed from having to listen to shitty dj's all day.)
used to ride my bike to work 45 minutes one way when i lived in a small city, now i sit on the train for about 40 minutes and walk for 20 more to get most places in the centre. But it is still MUCH faster than driving. This is a BIG city.
sitting on the subway is a good time for me though. can't take phone calls and nothing to do but listen to music and work things out in my sketchbook.
glad to hear you is quittin an awful job. good luck with the next...
beta, an hourly worker huh? well maybe you should head out for a 5 drink lunch then, roll back in 30 minutes before the end of the day, pack up, clock out, and collect your money.
i quit a job where i was with students most of the time... the last 5 hours they made a party hat and it had post-its with msgs that would change hourly.
i think the last one was "get me the hell outta here!"
unfortunately i kept working past 5 and so i ended up with "what am i still doing here?"
20 Hours Left
well that's about it. started a job about 4 and half weeks ago and i am bolting like a FEMA director standing in the path of a hurricane.
what did i learn? commuting sucks hard, an 1.5 hr commute in each direction is mind numbing. i like my sleep, 5 am alarms really bite. townhomes and custom homes are probably the worst things ever created - in conjunction with the likes of Toll Bros, Hovnanian, etc... - i nearly slit my wrists lengthwise the first day i stepped in here. being happy is more important than any amount of money. having more time to do the things that make you happy and following through with them is more important than any financial success. being free of the guilt of thinking you could beat down your ego and work for a firm like this, stupid me, stupid fucking me.
i am off anew at 5pm 092305.
btw anyone interested in doing designs or competitions together? you know collaborating on interesting work? drop me a line, lets see if we're compatible.
congrats, beta. you're becoming wise. (you gotta make mistakes.)
good for you beta.
what's next?
knowing to slit your wrists lengthwise already demonstates a deeper understanding of the core issues.
i thought the same thing....
So sorry for the rough path, betadinesutures, but you did learn something valuable it sounds like.
Good luck with the next act!
1.5 hour commute? please tell me you haven't been driving that each day. how did they get you to do that?
competitions beta? some friends and i recently formed a team for such an endeavor. I was already considering some long distance teammates, specifically, my good buddy +q. but he's busy with the whole grad school application process...
oh, and we're doing it as a welcome distraction from our own less than satisfying jobs...freakin' idealism
Beta, where were you working? city, state, and company name, please.
K.Hov and Toll do pretty awful, unimaginative things. K.Hov seems slightly better than Toll, but still pretty bad.
BOTS - that was funny as hell, and yeah i think that goes without saying.
momentum - driving that everyfreaking day, 1.5 here 1.5 back - how? my wife and i thought it would be temporary thing until she found work around here, it never really materialized and i awoke from my dead presidents coma...
mm - i can only say jersey, and feinberg.......
you people are pretty damn supportive, thanks.
ap - that sounds pretty cool...
the recent gas prices must have been killing you up there with that drive. thats gotta be almost a full tank a day. it wouldn't suprise me if you spent $650-800 on gass this past month (basing this on you not driving a Hummer or Lamborgini).
hope you enjoy the last drive home when your.. what 19 hours now, is up. enjoy the new place man.
16 hours
and 650 a month is about right.
You have inspired me to follow suit mr beta
Here's a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry, be happy
In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy now
Don't worry, be happy Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy Don't worry, be happy
Ain't got no place to lay your head
Somebody came and took your bed
Don't worry, be happy
The landlord say your rent is late
He may have to litigate
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy
Working four weeks at this lame ass job
It took me one whole day to say I was robbed
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy, Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy, Don't worry, be happy
good to hear you are giving up the commute. i used to commute an hour each way when i lived on the east coast. it sucked. when i moved to san francisco, i walked to every job i worked at. gawd, i loved it. life is too short to spend that much time traveling to and from a job. good luck beta.
Good luck Beta. I have to travel approximate 3.6kms to work, and I would find that very difficult to give up. I put in 30L of petrol which lasts me approximately 3 weeks. I leave my house at 8.25am and get to work at 8.30pm. I can go home for lunch, and I can also work more, and still see my family becasue I have no commute time.
thanks e and dia.
count it down with me people!
14.5 hours left
beta...
i'll count it down with you if you'll count it down with me
next week...
52.5 hrs left
Sounds like your countdown to leaving, beta, is the same clock as mine for moving into my new house. Sadly my new house is an utter disaster and near unlivable if those guys I hired don't show up to put in my kitchen in the next two hours!! I better get a door on the one working bathroom before they show up...
deal lars!
liberty your situation reminds me of those house flipping shows...that really sucks....
I lived in an under-renovation house for five years without a kitchen - I was really hoping to avoid that situation this time around, but I guess I can live w/o a kitchen for a week this time if I have to.
Just reminds me of what my clients always have to live through!
lb, did i tell you the one about hosting a derby party with 50 people when we had no kitchen? seriously: no counters, cabs, appliances, etc because we had just sanded the floors. it was an empty room.
over the time without the kitchen, our favorite indian restaurant got to know us really well.
good luck this weekend.
and good luck to you, too, beta and lars. hope you're taking some time out before starting at new jobs.
yes, take a vacation like me. I'm loving it. Quitting was the best thing that ever happened to me. Stop and smell the air.
yeah steven...
i'm quittin without a job to go to...plan to take my time and
find the job i want... i'm thinking probably a month or two
off...plan on painting (art) a few hours a day and working on the
portfolio and a couple furniture designs...maybe a consulting
job here and there..but it's time for me to get back into capital
A architecture.
and beta...if i did the math right...13/51 left.
Beta,
Good thing that you're leaving but what were you thinking?
You took a job with a company that produces a newsletter called "Markitect" and positions itself as producing "Market-based Ideas and Designs for Today's Builders and Developers."
How is that worth commutting for? Ugh!
this goes back about two months ago i wanted to increase my bank in order to pay off debt, student loans and shiite like that and while i was working crap i would do the things that kept my mind sane. it was all about the bank - my dead presidents coma. mea culpa and all that.....i was in a bad place in my head, when i think about it now all i needed was a vacation...
enjoy the new places. (beta and lars)
mm i forgot to ask; do you want a copy? we have them on rolls in the mens toilet...
11.5 hours
larslarson - 8 and 46
it's gonna be a good friday beta - enjoy the feeling of quiting a shite situation!
congrats and good luck - lose your car keys for a week if you can.
rayray's right - happy happy happy friday beta!
i'm still amazed that people engage in 1.5 hour commutes. i don't drive now, but i used to have a car and i had a 20 minute commute on the freeway. actually not too bad, but even so, i actually found my self screaming in my car for entertainment. i couldn't stand the radio anymore, and the car was sooo isolating. so i just made a habit of screaming as much as possible. nobody could hear me. nobody cared is i was in distress or anything. i'd just let loose as much as possible, kinda like
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow, that felt good...i guess that its been a while
of course, if i could have surfed archinect while driving, i might have kept the commute.
puddles, i feel you on the commute thing. used to drive to my high school, then drive to work, then drive home each day. with about 1.5 hours in the car each day, i felt like i was losing any life i had. i have never been able to just listen to radio since then. (i have to have earphones at work, or i get pissed from having to listen to shitty dj's all day.)
used to ride my bike to work 45 minutes one way when i lived in a small city, now i sit on the train for about 40 minutes and walk for 20 more to get most places in the centre. But it is still MUCH faster than driving. This is a BIG city.
sitting on the subway is a good time for me though. can't take phone calls and nothing to do but listen to music and work things out in my sketchbook.
glad to hear you is quittin an awful job. good luck with the next...
not including lunch;
4 hours
wait for it...
beta, go have a three drink lunch, come back, clear your desk, and say good day.
e, i'd love to, really i would, but this day is worth $250 and i can use the bread...
oh, i just got my mailbox today...with my schedule for next week......
what's next week look like? pure bliss?
beta, an hourly worker huh? well maybe you should head out for a 5 drink lunch then, roll back in 30 minutes before the end of the day, pack up, clock out, and collect your money.
i quit a job where i was with students most of the time... the last 5 hours they made a party hat and it had post-its with msgs that would change hourly.
i think the last one was "get me the hell outta here!"
unfortunately i kept working past 5 and so i ended up with "what am i still doing here?"
2
hell yeah beta! good for you, man...my soul is crumbling because of the job i have...i gotta jet soon...
are you doing this blindly or do you have some cash saved up?
1
thanks for taking this ride with moi
til then.
t-minus thirty minutes?
11 MIN
8 minutes!
and now, bet's making that last long drive home.
home!
you're safe, safe, safe....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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