The Things I Do For Excitement

So I have this thing that isn’t quite a cold but it’s pretty annoying. Slight nasal congestion, sore throat…but not much else. Oh, and an occasional cough that sounds horrible, but isn’t really. My cow-orkers are all offering me cough drops, so I’m guessing they’re tired of listening to me. Lucky them!

I’ve spent the morning calculating surface areas, and I’ve only scratched the surface (heh) of the stack I have to complete. This is boring and tedious, but it’s good to know I need a masters in chemical engineering to calculate the area of the lateral surface of a truncated cone. At least I have my MP3 player. So far I’ve been through the Garden State and Hedwig soundtracks, and I’m listening to Princess Mononoke now.

Had a couple of nibbles from recruiters lately, which is encouraging. This weekend I need to fluff my resume a bit on Monster and Careerbuilder (read: make the resume appear newer on database searches). It’s a pity that I don’t want to completely ignore the first seven years of my work experience, otherwise I could take any of the nice low-paying jobs that I’ve been offered. On the bright side, takaza is in line for quite an impressive raise, which opens up the acceptable salary range for me. But I’m still not going to take any of this entry-level crap.

Well, ’bout time for lunch now. The cafeteria here is quite adept at taking a good idea and rendering it into something barely edible; we’ll see what they put in the slop-buckets today.

12 thoughts on “The Things I Do For Excitement”

      1. woodychitwn

        I’m all over the hot chocolate lately at work… But I use a travel mug, and the packets say they make 6oz, so I need to use three of them for every cup…
        I don’t want to know the calories, or the fat, or any of that good stuff. But I limit myself to only one a day. One delicious, tall mug of steaming hot chocolate… Mmm…

    1. woofwoofarf Post author

      Parallel to the base, so this formula applies:

      It’s funny that you pointed to the bymath.com page, because that’s the one I’ve kept in the background all morning as reference.

      1. hartree

        Good thing they don’t see that funny line with two legs and decide they need a physicist for it. 😉
        I always found that sort of thing was good to save up for when I was utterly brain dead at work. On a day when I couldn’t do anything creative, at least I’d have some “mass production” work available.

  4. delphi_of_clf

    *nods* I can understand where your coming from job wise. And at least you have the degrees to show that you know what you do.. I’m still in the process of getting that little sheet of paper that says I know what I learned a long time ago.
    If you don’t find what your looking for job wise, take whatever looks best, then keep looking for something better. If you’re stable enough financially, that should be fine for a while. Whatever works, really.

    1. woofwoofarf Post author

      As for taking whatever looks best, well, that’s what I’m doing now. See, I had a pretty good job down in North Carolina, but that ended in October, 2002. I spent the next two years looking for a position, and the contract job I have now is the result of “get a job, any job.” It’s not a bad gig and I’ve been told it’s solid through at least 2008, but I want little things like better pay and vacation (thank heavens benefits are covered through ‘s employer). Anyway, I’m in a pretty good position here to pick and choose, but it’s becoming apparent that the salary I had three+ years ago isn’t what I’m going to be in the market for this time. We’ll muddle through somehow, though.

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