I'm in the same boat right now. Relatively new at my company and don't have the autonomy to do anything. So I just hit here. Hate it.
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Dak
mentat
It's actually a fairly prestigious job too. I'm hoping to implement some changes here shortly - idk how long I'll last if they don't pan out.
The Ozzman
Melted by feels
I did that for a while in an independent league. It became apparent that I was too old to make it further. It was fun though. Got a big chip off my shoulder.
The Ozzman
Melted by feels
I never got a chance to play college baseball because my high school coach hated me and told every school I tried out for not to sign me/give me a scholarship. So instead of getting a fullride to play somewhere (which is what should've happened) I didn't get to play at all in college. I played in collegiate leagues instead and then made an indy team after I graduated. With loads of debt due to the lack of a scholarship (grades were average but not great).
viewerfromnihil
Vein-Marbled Tower
Occupation-wise, I'm in an in-between place. I'm an English language assistant at a vocational college. It's pretty easy. No preparation involved and it's 12 hours a week. Pay isn't much, but I still manage to travel around and have fun. A lifetime of relative poverty makes it pretty easy. I'll be picking up a few extra hours a week here soon as a contracted lecturer through the local community college, so I'll be able to call myself a Privatdozent (adjunct lecturer) soon, an otherwise somewhat unglamorous title which will in any case provide me with a 50% pay increase. Beyond that, I'm a PhD student currently on leave, so spend a good amount of time at the university here. I'm rather happy with what I'm doing.
For fun I like to drink in public, get blasted with strangers in cities I've only just wandered into, and wake up in unfamiliar places only to recognize I forgot to remove my contacts. I also play guitar and, despite having covered Covered with Sores with a friend just a month ago, I primarily cover Elliott Smith songs and sometimes write songs about ex-girlfriends/boyfriends and being sad. I also like to play licks in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan, but in a minimalist (not that he was exactly melodically/rhythmically complex) and out-of-tune fashion, and wouldn't mind starting a noisy band with that being my shtick at some point.
For fun I like to drink in public, get blasted with strangers in cities I've only just wandered into, and wake up in unfamiliar places only to recognize I forgot to remove my contacts. I also play guitar and, despite having covered Covered with Sores with a friend just a month ago, I primarily cover Elliott Smith songs and sometimes write songs about ex-girlfriends/boyfriends and being sad. I also like to play licks in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan, but in a minimalist (not that he was exactly melodically/rhythmically complex) and out-of-tune fashion, and wouldn't mind starting a noisy band with that being my shtick at some point.
King Richard
Hello there
Phylactery
Active Member
I might have a math problem for you tomorrow
You didn’t deliver on this! I am disappoint.
Vegard Pompey
ALLY TO GOOD, NIGHTMARE TO YOU
Tomorrow I have an interview for a Chicago based hedge fund. Aside from the fact they'll have to pay me three times what I make now due to the cost of living, I am hopeful.
The Ozzman
Melted by feels
The Ozzman
Melted by feels
It is, haha. It's honestly not a terrible area. I had mistakenly thought that moving away and starting over would make me happy, and it turns out that external things like that do not accomplish much for me in terms of overall happiness.
Krow
Garbage Connoisseur
viewerfromnihil
Vein-Marbled Tower
I know the Cambridge, Ohio area well enough that a drive through Akron was all I needed. Granted, better than there.
CiG
Harbinger of Metal
I'm hoping to get out of here. My phone interview was weird - I spoke with the owner of the firm, and he was grilling me about the fundamentals of specific stocks. Like do you really think I'm gonna somehow know every single P/E ratio of every single stock at a given time? Fuck off.
