The great job conundrum...

[JJtheVagPounder]

I got a plan. It's solid:


wait for it.....



I'm gonna win the lotto. BOOM!

[mohican]

Well, I am graduating with a degree in graphic design in March so, there's that. It's just one of those "so close, and yet, so far away" situations. And who knows if I'll even get a job coming out of the gates. There are much more experienced people out there that are looking for work. Argh....

I majored in design first year in college. Second year I got cold feet, worried about not getting a job and switched to business. I have never have a job that I like. Looking back I should have stuck with what I love to do instead of going the safe route. Go with your design path. You are seriously talented. I would think the commercial art world are always on the look out for new fresh talent. Might have to relocate where the jobs are. Check this out ... This is the company that does the promo for http://www.superstarmedia.com/site/ Is this the type of company you're looking for?

[chefcraig]

Oxymoron



Prove me wrong......

I thought that meant this guy...

[Sensible Shoes]

Isn't that guy dead?

[JJtheVagPounder]

Well, I am very limited on my web design. Although, I do have a website that I built, it is super basic. I'm going more towards the print end of things. Layouts, corporate identities, things like that. I would love to draw for a living. LOVE IT. But it will probably just remain a side thing.

[twonabomber]

Ha. Those are the people that make the money. I was a producer. 30 years. anyway, as much as you hate it, don't leave without a plan.

couldn't you go into freelance production?

note i didn't say porn. :D

[LoungeMachine]

Oxi....

Oxy.....



Craig is easily confused.....

[chefcraig]

Isn't that guy dead?

Yeah, but I couldn't find a good image of the twerp on the right.

[twonabomber]

Oxy...Oxi...Ozzy?

[JJtheVagPounder]

Isn't that guy dead?

Billy Mays? Oh yeah. He's dead as hell. Hey Billy, is MJ up there with you?

"No. POW!"

[guwapo_rocker]

I'm so confused....

[JJtheVagPounder]

Billy Mays died around the same time as Michael Jackson. When this happened a local morning radio host had a guy call up acting like Billy Mays from beyond the grave. The guy sounded all coked up (Billy was suspect) and played the part perfectly, talking super fast and super excited and sniffling every now and then. Well, the DJ asked “Billy” if Michael Jackson was up in Heaven with him and he replied….

“No. POW!”

You had to be there.

[VAiN]

Billy Mays died around the same time as Michael Jackson. When this happened a local morning radio host had a guy call up acting like Billy Mays from beyond the grave. The guy sounded all coked up (Billy was suspect) and played the part perfectly, talking super fast and super excited and sniffling every now and then. Well, the DJ asked “Billy” if Michael Jackson was up in Heaven with him and he replied….

“No. POW!”

You had to be there.

Oh, and I was there... We sure got some mileage on that one. Speaking of MJ, that motherfucker died on my birthday and stole my thunder!

Back on topic, hang in there JJ, this is going to be a good year, I can feel it... And that's just not Fridays hangover talking.

[JJtheVagPounder]

You have too much fun. And then I make you have more. We may be alcoholics.

And yeah, it'll get better, it's just the torturous waitnig!

[Seshmeister]

Case in point: it is Sunday here in sunny Boca Raton, Florida. Whilst people are enjoying time with their families, I am sitting here working a ten and a half hour shift. Now, some may think that there are some perks to working Sundays that will keep the help in check. Well, yes, I can dress down. However I cannot wear sneakers or I will get written up. Now, is that in and of itself a big deal? No. But when the managers who enforce this wear sneakers or flip flops, it pisses me off. Do as I say not as I do indeed.

Whatever. I’m just bitching. Trying to pad my post count a little. Just hanging out. Working. Listening to Van Halen. Wait. No I’m not. I’m not listening to Van Halen. Why? Because the ability to listen to music was taken away because someone thought I was listening to satanic music when Running with the Devil came on. “Ok, Vag Pounder, I can kind of understand where they’re coming from.” Oh, can you? How about this? I was singing Ice Cream Man not too long ago. Ice Cream Man. You know the tune. I got a verbal warning. Yep. No singing. Next time is a write up. It’s “distracting”. Fuck. You.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle

The Peter Principle

The Peter Principle states that "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence", meaning that employees tend to be promoted until they reach a position at which they cannot work competently. It was formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle, a humorous [1] treatise which also introduced the "salutary science of hierarchiology."

The principle holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Eventually they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain, being unable to earn further promotions. Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out their duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence." "Managing upward" is the concept of a subordinate finding ways to subtly "manage" superiors in order to limit the damage that they end up doing.