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jhocking:

--- Quote from: yelley on 31 May 2008, 19:10 ---i am excited about the new job though! since i got laid off a few weeks ago i was really worried that i wouldn't find another job soon enough and i would have another summer of unemployment like last year. i still have so much debt to pay off from those few months, and it was such a depressing time for me... i was so scared i'd have to repeat that!

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So what's the new job? I hope it's something cool!

I'm starting a new job Monday too, although the situation is different for me. For instance, I actually have a couple sources of income already, and I'm taking on this new freelance job in addition. The money will be very helpful right now though, since for the past few months I've just been buffeted by one huge bill after another. Most recently for example, I paid a couple thousand dollars for dental work, and I still need to go back to get more done. I really really wish I had dental insurance.

Anyway, the job should be interesting; I'll be programming Flash games for a kids-oriented website. Plus, I'm mostly going to be working remotely, and only need to go in a couple times a week for meetings.

Johnny C:
Thank God for Joe, otherwise this would just be a bunch of sad-sack cryin'.

jhocking:
Sorry I worded that all wrong.

Guys, I have periodontitis and I'm not even 30 yet. Not only do I have to be extra vigilant for the rest of my life to make sure my teeth don't fall out, I've been hemhorraging cash on all the dentist's visits. And this is after the ton I owed in taxes, not to mention an extremely costly visit to the emergency room. Man, it's a damn good thing I just picked up another freelance job to help pay for all this.

yelley:

--- Quote from: jhocking on 31 May 2008, 19:45 ---So what's the new job? I hope it's something cool!


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well, it's pretty much the same job as i was supposed to have before; i'll be a food microbiologist for primus labs. it should be easy for me to pick it up, since i toured their lab facility and discovered that they use mostly the same food testing methods as my previous employer. considering that i wrote all the procedures for the last lab, one would think that i'd be quite good at them already. so of course i am extremely nervous. i'm going into a job where everyone expects me to know how to do everything already! even though technically i do know how to do it already... i'm still worried.

another good thing... the new lab facility, after i finish the training in santa maria of course, is less than 4 miles from my apartment! so now instead of scrambling to buy a new car, i am going to buy a bike and put that second car money towards paying off last summer's unemployment debt.

speaking of debt... i paid off one of my credit cards recently! i made one late payment last summer and my rate went up to 29%! i was making payments and getting nowhere... luckily i was able to use some of my severance pay to make that card go away. ^_^

KickThatBathProf:
Congrats joe and yelley on your job superiority!!

A rather odd event happened in my life.  Some random woman called me up and told me she had my class ring from back in high school.  See, this was some 4 years back that I lost it and I just assumed that it vanished entirely from the earth.  But no, her son found it in an air duct in a boarding school I've never been to, ever.  Weird.

(Not that I really care about my class ring now, except for nostalgia)

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