Today is my last day with the stressful high pressure job....turned in my two weeks notice and start a new less stressful (and less money but oh well, worth it) job on Monday....
I told them in my interview that I HAD to have the week off around labor day, they said that's fine, no problem! It was one of my criteria for job hunting.....!
Now I can go to BM this year being more carefree.
Your job.
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diane o'thirst
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I'm self-employed, a crafts vendor, and I will be missing two Saturday Markets to go to the Burn. So yes, I'll be missing out on those income sources.
However, I describe artists as "economic bottom-feeders:" we get the dollars that nobody else snaps up. And occasionally, I go spend ten hours at Market and come away with nothing, or a negative cash flow. It depends on the crowd that particular day. I do know from experience that the first of the month is always a thin time because everyone just paid their rent or mortgage and don't have disposable income to give to the artisans of the community. So in truth, I'm not losing much anyway.
I offset that by acknowledging that those two weeks I'm away will be thin times, so I respond by stockpiling supplies throughout the year. Make hay while the sun shines, basically. When I have money, I go get something and stick it in a Burning Man box. If I have a little extra money left over or a windfall comes my way, it goes into the Burn stash. That way when the annual migration comes around, I just pack the car and we're off to the races.
However, I describe artists as "economic bottom-feeders:" we get the dollars that nobody else snaps up. And occasionally, I go spend ten hours at Market and come away with nothing, or a negative cash flow. It depends on the crowd that particular day. I do know from experience that the first of the month is always a thin time because everyone just paid their rent or mortgage and don't have disposable income to give to the artisans of the community. So in truth, I'm not losing much anyway.
I offset that by acknowledging that those two weeks I'm away will be thin times, so I respond by stockpiling supplies throughout the year. Make hay while the sun shines, basically. When I have money, I go get something and stick it in a Burning Man box. If I have a little extra money left over or a windfall comes my way, it goes into the Burn stash. That way when the annual migration comes around, I just pack the car and we're off to the races.
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Well, I switched jobs this year from grocery bagger to employee of the State of Wisconsin, DOT/DMV. Early on I was told that there was no chance I could get the time off I wanted (August being extremely popular, and the first week of September also being popular). Then, too my extreme surprise, I got the vactation time approved around mid-July, and have been wondering how I can afford to go ever since!
Anyway, one of the benefits of working for the State of Wisconsin is generous vacation time. One of the drawbacks is low pay (people don't want to pay for the benefits the state provides them-- part of the American Way, I guess
). Anyway, the job pays better than grocery bagging-- both in dollars and vacation time. Also, the possibilities for advancement and the work are better than when I was working at the hospital before I got canned and took up bagging groceries as a temporary arrangement which lasted almost three years!
For more specifics on my job, I am either a worker on the "Frontlines In The War Against Terrorism" or a "Glorified Cashier" depending upon whether the government is giving us more work or talking about paying us for the work. (If a terrorist comes into the Racine County DMV office, I plan on hiding undneath the counter and hoping someone with a cell phone can call in the police/FBI/US Army/Boy Scouts/whatever.)
More realistically, I get to review people's documents, give eye screenings, and all the other fun sort of things which go into issuing Driver Licenses and/or state I.D. cards, and/or vehicle titles and/or registration. I also get to try to find records of that car which has spent the last 30 years in someone's barn out back, for which the title has long since been lost, and, just now, the owner has decided to sell or get running. Or maybe there never was a title (I didn't even KNOW that Norton was still in business in 1973, or that, in some states, titles weren't required until 1975....)
Anyhow, for some reason they seem to actually like me at the DMV, so I am hoping to stay here for a while-- and just recently (deciding my life is NOT dangerous enough) I have applied to advance to Examiner-- and get to take people out on the road and see if they actually DO know how to drive!
B.
P.S.: I think I have GOT to go this year! I've been telling everyone at work about wanting to go to BM! Almost none of them have even heard of it! Although at least some of our customers have.
Anyway, one of the benefits of working for the State of Wisconsin is generous vacation time. One of the drawbacks is low pay (people don't want to pay for the benefits the state provides them-- part of the American Way, I guess
). Anyway, the job pays better than grocery bagging-- both in dollars and vacation time. Also, the possibilities for advancement and the work are better than when I was working at the hospital before I got canned and took up bagging groceries as a temporary arrangement which lasted almost three years!For more specifics on my job, I am either a worker on the "Frontlines In The War Against Terrorism" or a "Glorified Cashier" depending upon whether the government is giving us more work or talking about paying us for the work. (If a terrorist comes into the Racine County DMV office, I plan on hiding undneath the counter and hoping someone with a cell phone can call in the police/FBI/US Army/Boy Scouts/whatever.)
More realistically, I get to review people's documents, give eye screenings, and all the other fun sort of things which go into issuing Driver Licenses and/or state I.D. cards, and/or vehicle titles and/or registration. I also get to try to find records of that car which has spent the last 30 years in someone's barn out back, for which the title has long since been lost, and, just now, the owner has decided to sell or get running. Or maybe there never was a title (I didn't even KNOW that Norton was still in business in 1973, or that, in some states, titles weren't required until 1975....)
Anyhow, for some reason they seem to actually like me at the DMV, so I am hoping to stay here for a while-- and just recently (deciding my life is NOT dangerous enough) I have applied to advance to Examiner-- and get to take people out on the road and see if they actually DO know how to drive!
B.
P.S.: I think I have GOT to go this year! I've been telling everyone at work about wanting to go to BM! Almost none of them have even heard of it! Although at least some of our customers have.
"Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do.
Do things that have never been done."
--Russell Kirsch
Do things that have never been done."
--Russell Kirsch
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PlayaPetal
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I'm a professional sculptor, which pays the bills about negative-five percent of the time. Just getting ready to quit my current dayjob on Monday- Screenprinting huge banners for a local sign and display company. THEY think that a skilled tradesman should also be their janitor, and tell us that they won't hire a real janitor because they'd rather save the money to give to us as raises, which nobody has gotten in years. Clean your own damn toilets, wankers! I'm gonna go play in the dust!
Howdy From Kalamazoo
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unjonharley
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robotland wrote:I'm a professional sculptor, which pays the bills about negative-five percent of the time. Just getting ready to quit my current dayjob on Monday- Screenprinting huge banners for a local sign and display company. THEY think that a skilled tradesman should also be their janitor, and tell us that they won't hire a real janitor because they'd rather save the money to give to us as raises, which nobody has gotten in years. Clean your own damn toilets, wankers! I'm gonna go play in the dust!
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temperamental little bitch. see ya in the dust.
I'm the contraptioneer your mother warned you about.
Hey Doc! Can I borrow $5?Dr. Pyro wrote:It doesn't suck to be me. I manage a major stock brokerage firm in Sacramento, can take as much vacation as I please, earn more money than I can spend, and can live as lavishly as I please, even in an environment such as Burning Man. And I do. Caviar anyone?
Medicated and Motivated!
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EB
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I'm a TV writer -- one-hour dramas (Law & Order, et al.) I've got a cool gig coming up about the '77 Yankees.
The only time I was completely free to attend BM was after I quit a show. Otherwise, I'm completely at the mercy of the writing gods (script due dates, production deadlines, etc.) which makes serious planning/emotional investment almost impossible. In this industry, everyone's scrambling to get shows written in the summer (now) because they need to get shot and ready for the fall tv season.
Each January I buy five or six tickets with grand designs of getting a crew together and by each August four of those tickets get posted on the "Tickets" thread.
I'm on assignment right now, hoping to turn it in EARLY (?!) so that I might get a jump start on the notes so that I might be able to go this year(what's a man without dreams...)
The only time I was completely free to attend BM was after I quit a show. Otherwise, I'm completely at the mercy of the writing gods (script due dates, production deadlines, etc.) which makes serious planning/emotional investment almost impossible. In this industry, everyone's scrambling to get shows written in the summer (now) because they need to get shot and ready for the fall tv season.
Each January I buy five or six tickets with grand designs of getting a crew together and by each August four of those tickets get posted on the "Tickets" thread.
I'm on assignment right now, hoping to turn it in EARLY (?!) so that I might get a jump start on the notes so that I might be able to go this year(what's a man without dreams...)
Irony. You're soaking in it.
I'm a tree climber/arborist. I tell my boss sometime in January that he needs to think ahead to August about what he's going to do without me for a week and he never does until...mmm...sometime in late August. He always lays two weeks of twelve hour days on us (it's only he and I) right before I get to leave, then says 'happy birthday (August 27, if you guys want to get me anything - especially Doc Pyro [I need $1000 for a truck>hint hint>]), have a good yuppy-pagan fest' and off I go.
There's no question about whether I'm going or not. He knows I'll quit to go. Tree climbing is a helluva specialized trade and there aren't that many of us and as it happens, I'm a kick ass worker. I'm not in too much danger...
There's no question about whether I'm going or not. He knows I'll quit to go. Tree climbing is a helluva specialized trade and there aren't that many of us and as it happens, I'm a kick ass worker. I'm not in too much danger...
Thanks to Addis, I had more free time.
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unjonharley
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I'm extremely lucky....
Fortunately I work at Google and management not only attends but they are extremely supportive of those that take off to go. No need to make up a bogus excuse.
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raspberrymeeegs
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joel the ornery
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theCryptofishist
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theCryptofishist
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unjonharley
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Not if you use the wood to build a sailboat and sail over! Hey, and you could put wheels on the boat and use the wind to get out to the playa!oFZo wrote:Unfortunately the shipping costs from Holland to the US might be more than the employee-discount I can arrangeBAS wrote:I'm a salesperson in lumber and the like (Plywood anyone? Laughing )
Maybe next year! No time for a project this year.
B.
B.
"Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do.
Do things that have never been done."
--Russell Kirsch
Do things that have never been done."
--Russell Kirsch
I recently graduated from college with a degree in Paralegal Studies. During my studies I've been, waitress, figure model, errand runner. Now I'm just working on getting to the Playa in one piece. Upon my return to the default world I will be a Paralegal and studying for the CLA: Paralegal version of the Bar exam.
Things are slow at the resturaunt biz. However, been able to save just about enough pesos to make the journey "home".
Things are slow at the resturaunt biz. However, been able to save just about enough pesos to make the journey "home".
BOOBIES!!!
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Abraham Lincoln
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