Are you at work right now?

I mostly get drunk during the day and then teach kids defensive driving classes at night. Cool job. Snotty brats though.

Where I am it's 11 PM, but yes, I'm at work. I'm babysitting you see. The little tykes have just about drifted off to dreamland and the parents allowed me computer priveleges, so here I am.

Whenever I'm in front of the computer, I'm working (at least that's what my husband thinks).

I can only post on AW from home. I don't have Internet access at work. But since I am a Retail Slave, my hours change all the time. So do my days off. So I am on the board at random times all week long.

You just never know when to expect me to come creeping up behind you.

I'm just a young'un, so no working for some corrupt corporation for me!



...yet.

I get paid for being on AW.

One dollar.

For every post.

I

can't

keep

up.

I spend all my day giving Maryn pedicures and cleaning her pool.

I wish I was allowed to log onto AW at work. Right now, if I did, I'd get fired.

I post only at home. I work only at home. Both activities are part-time and irregular.

I'm house-sitting, and I'm making sure no one runs off with the computer by using it.

Gotta protect that keyboard.

Also, I'm taking a breather from my real job to get ready for that final push to the end of the tasks at hand.

Since I ran out of books until the bookstores open again tomorrow, I figured I'd bug all of you.

And I'm getting paid for my time. As a housesitter. It's a great job if you can get it, but the yard work's a bear if you're a dedicated apartment-dweller like me.

I'm using my downtime at work to surf AW for awhile. It's finally slowed down and I'm taking the break I deserve...you know, the one I get right before I have a nervous breakdown and decide to beat someone to death with my phone. Only 1 hour and 10 minutes until the end of my shift.

I work 7p-7a on a somewhat confusing schedule that allows me every other weekend off.

Yes, I love my job...it's just hard to love it at the end of 12 hours! And I think my user name should give away what I do for a living...

I have an Intel3000 65.7 Geg HZH chip implanted in my medulla oblonganta.

I can post 24 hours a day wherever I may be without any boss having a clue.

It's thought recognition technology and I love it.

billythrilly7th said:

I have an Intel3000 65.7 Geg HZH chip implanted in my medulla oblonganta.

I can post 24 hours a day wherever I may be without any boss having a clue.

It's thought recognition technology and I love it.

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Oh dear. You didn't get the memo?

Microsoft discontinued the Intel3000 chip back in '05 due to security flaws, constant dropped connections and the tendancy it had to make the user drool.

Most everyone has upgraded already to the Intel4000.2, compatible with men named Mac who eat apples.

MidnightMuse said:

Microsoft discontinued the Intel3000 chip back in '05 due to security flaws, constant dropped connections and the tendancy it had to make the user drool.

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Well, you'd think Billy would have noticed when he kept on drooling like usual and the chip didn't do a thing. I would have noticed.

'Work' is school right now, but since I am on vacations I can post all day long without remorse. When I'm at school, I only post in the afternoons during the time I'm supposed to be doing homework

I am indeed at work.

Where do you work? I'm currently a Project Manager for an educational publishing service company. We basically do everything that publishing companies don't feel like doing (outsourcing is very big these days).

What are your hours? Usually 9-6, but when books are getting ready to go to the printer, I've worked as much as 70 hours a week for a month or two.

What do you do? I am the only person anywhere who is supposed to know where every last page is at all times. I create and maintain schedules, traffic materials, commission art, develop design and production specs, watch the budget, and provide communication between the editors and the production staff. Currently, I am managing an elementary school reading program that consists of 7 books for each grade from K through 6, for a total of something like 12,000 pages of material (the equivalent of maybe a dozen volumes of an encylopedia). I've been working on it since last September and I'll be working on it until next February.

Do you like it? Oddly enough, yes. I do. But most of my career has been spent in the production pits of magazines, so it's kinda like home to me now. Plus, I get do so a bit of editing now and then, so I get to keep my hand in there, too.

Wow - when I say it like that, I can see that I really must be nuts.