I got a JOB!

[Th1onein]

I am employed again! Hurrah! Hurrah! From $0 to over $1000 a week! Oh yes, oh yes!

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. Thats great!

Where are you working at?

[2Design]

2. what is your job....over a 1000 a week.... I need a job like that....

[GOPisEvil]

3. Congratulations!!!

$1000 a week?!? Are they hiring? :7

[Th1onein]

9. It's actually my old job.........

Long story, but I hired a guy who stabbed me in the back, about a year and a half ago. True to form, though, he stabbed THE BOSS in the back a couple of months ago, and got fired, and I got re-hired.

It does, indeed, pay to be honest, sometimes.

It's a sales account manager's job. The only bad things about it are that it is VERY stressful and you have to be willing to live in hotels and corporate apartments all year round--lots of travel.

[GOPisEvil]

10. Ugh...that can be stressful.

If you ever travel down to Austin, say hi. :hi:

[Th1onein]

12. Oh, I've BEEN in Austin before! UGH!

I know a lot of people who absolutely love that town, but I do NOT. I don't know about anyone else's experience there, but it seemed like every other person who came in to apply for positions with my company there was on drugs. Maybe I've led a sheltered life, but I learned more about what addiction to crack cocaine and heroin look like, in Austin, than anywhere I've ever been.

[GOPisEvil]

13. LOL!! Yeah...there's a large "heroin chic" population.

It comes from having so many musician-types here.

Don't judge us by them, it's really a nice place.

[Th1onein]

14. Oh, I could tell you some stories.....

I have nothing against pot, but there was this one guy who would come back from lunch so buzzed, he absolutely could not function. "Ohhhh yeeeeaaaahhhh," he would say, after lunch, eyes red as a demon's. It would have been almost comical if he hadn't wasted so much time, staring at things.

Then there was the woman who SEEMED fine when I hired her, but appeared at work the first morning "nodding out" on heroin.

Then there was the heroin addict who worked next door, and who got strung out and came around our office BEGGING for twenty dollars, sweat popping out all over his face. (And, yes, I gave him a twenty, because he looked like he was in so much pain, and to get rid of him, too.)

I won't even go into the crack addicts. Geez.

[GOPisEvil]

16. Yikes...how sad!

This really is a neat place, but it sounds as though you've met the worst of us.

Maybe with the economy the way it is, there are better applicants these days.

[Th1onein]

17. Well, when I look back on the experience now, I have to laugh......

It was a quick initiation into the world of drugs and drug addicts. And, I think that I was very innocent about that sort of thing back then, but I learned a lot from the experience. And it WAS funny as hell sometimes.

[On the Road]

4. Congratulations!

:toast:

Do tell more about the job!

[Yogi]

5. Good for you!

Best of luck.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

6. Kick ass!

And sign me up! I need that kinda loot!

[bif]

7. Thumbs up!

way to go.

[Jack_Dawson]

8. Go buy a prime cut ribeye and six-pack of good beer and...

BBQ it up tonight to celebrate!

:beer:

[fob]

11. That sucks. Hope it doesn't put a big dent in your DU time.

:evilgrin:

[Mad As Hell]

15. Me too.

A temp lawyer's job. Good good pay. Start tomorrow. It will definitely cut into my DU time and, as I have become addicted, that is going to be a definite problem. On the other hand, I will have more money to give to the causes and give I shall. In addition, I will never go back to being politically apathetic as the state of this nation is pathetic thanks to *I and *II and that other dead guy.

[Th1onein]

18. Congratulations!

That's the first thing I thought of, too: I can donate like a regular person now! I've been so broke for so long....