I won't lie, I already started to fade a little yesterday and today. Forcing myself to write sans inspiration (or knowledge of the topic for that matter) takes me right back to the miserable papers I had to write while completely drowning with senioritis last year.
Updates on the office experience:
- My ability to answer the phone and take down and relay messages has greatly improved. Woo.
- I'm learning a lot of things- and very quickly, ie- HTML (which I despise), tons of marketing stuff, and things about the communications world I never thought I'd give two shits about.
- I was put on salary a week ago, after them only knowing me for a week. I'm rather impressed with myself.*
- I have slowly drained all the technology I was given on day one so that I now must be provided a new monitor that's bigger than my TV at home and new computer to handle my speedy multi-tasking abilities. My new monitor arrived today, broken. My bosses believe that I am jynxed.
- I'm bonding with the other creative, a designer, over how ridiculously nuts and vague our bosses can be. And also how hysterical they are.
- There is an insane lady who runs an "Express Lab" across the hall. She has thin hair that she dyes black and wears hot pink lipstick that rubs off on her teeth. I'm 99.9% positive she has a crush on one of my bosses and she's asked me at least three times if I could help her out with SEO stuff, even though I told her I'm only just learning how.
Now, though, if I have any energy and any eyesight left at the end of the day, I stuff down some of Seth Godin's blog and read quite a bit of media news from where ever the links lead me. My research at work has given me a better perspective of just how much there is going on on the web. Wow.
Other than cool videos or FML-like sites, have you guys found anything cool on the web recently?
*I should note that I'm still making less than half of the average starting salary for somebody in my position and, though I'm alloted, I don't take lunch breaks. But I do get there at five of 9, and leave at 5 after 5. I'm all for working hard and I am very aware that I need to prove myself as an employee, and a creative one at that, but my job search, my research and my experience has taught me something. Business is cold and selfish. Sure we can be friendly, heck- we can even be "friends," but the bottom line is- what are you doing for me? What am I going to get out of this relationship? Are you going to take advantage of me? How far can I push you before you think I'm taking advantage of you? People take advantage of other people in all aspects of life, but if there's one time they're more likely to do it- it's when their money is on the table. Business to business may be more relaxed than business to customer, but it's still money. And it all makes me so uncomfortable. That, right there, is why eventually I want to just write. You know, after I have enough money to be comfortable. :p
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