Monday I decided that working at a job that you aren’t meant to stay at can and will erode the human soul.
Before you know it you walk in your front door, announce your home, and promptly plant your ass on your couch and put your hand down the front of your pants. And if that isn’t an eroded soul, I don’t know what is.
On a different front, I was talking with my boss this morning, and we were IMing a guy in Taiwan who is supposed to be helping us getting some software for displaying advertisements across networks going. Well, he isn’t the tech guy, but he is the boss. So while I’m talking w/ my boss who is typing to this guy, the guy says I should just fly out to Taiwan for a week or two.
So I think “Holy shit, I’m actually worth something cuz they want me to help in Taiwan.” Which is good cuz I already thought I could direct this project for them if I were there. Hell, I could help code the stuff if it isn’t written using those weird-ass chinese characters…I mean, code is code. About that time my boss points out that my wife would freak out if I were gone for two weeks, and that we don’t really have the money to drop for a spontaneous trip to Taiwan. So I say that I will go if Charley (the guy in Taiwan) will pay for it, and I will only go for a week. That really doesn’t fly w/ Charley cuz he is a bad business man and doesn’t have a ton of money to fly me out there, but he isn’t totally opposed to the idea.
But the kicker of all this is that my boss mentions that he should be sending me in June out there instead of him, to go to “the show.” And by show he means….oh yes, you guessed it….Computex. Fuckin’ Aye, how cool would that be to be at computex?
But, alas, the plane is booked, and everything is in Jeff’s name, so I won’t go to Computex. But it would be freaking awesome to go to computex, and all I would have to do is go visit a few of our vendors and have them take me out to lunch or something, and then go see all the cool shit at the show.
So, while my job erodes my soul, it kinda has its upside. My boss is cool most the time, and on days like today when he is in a good mood I can have a pretty good day. I suppose the upside doesn’t make up for the eroded soul, which is why I have my resume updated on monster (as well as occasionally posting it to some other places) and I’m answering calls from recruiters.