February 26, 2004
Employment 2
I fucking hate looking for work. The whole process makes me bitter and despairing even before it has begun. I hate the necessity for it, and the the grim drudgery of doing it and the way there always seem to be plenty of inappropriate jobs around but never, you know, the right ones. Although that last may just be the infamous Groucho maxim at work.Anyway, one consequence of this whole business is that I have felt the occasional uncharacteristic and unwelcome urge to censor myself on here. Not in the broader sense of removing potentially-risqué old posts or information about me that might seem inappropriate because, really, je ne regrette rien, and full disclosure is for the best anyway.
It's not like I'm going to be pretending that I'm an unassuming, devoutly-religious heterosexual who loves Macromedia Flash, and if anyone's going to get worked up about the contents of my blog then I'd rather not work for them anyway.
Nevertheless, I did ditch an earlier version of this post a couple of days ago thinking it might be strategically unwise. No great loss, but it left a sour taste. On the other hand, it's hard not to have a sour taste when you've been wading through crap like this all day:
You will focus on project based activities and the implementation of design solutions to deliver the architecture. Have input into the identification and allocation of design resource and provide design and delivery of end to end design solutions.
Deriding that passage was one of the things I began to doubt the wisdom of -- I am most likely relying on recruitment agents to get me employment, after all, so laughing at their illiterate outpourings might not help to get them on-side -- but honestly, if I ever get desperate enough to chase work in the particular alternate universe that gave rise to that Dilbertian drivel, you have my express written permission to hack me into bloody chunks with a hatchet and feed the remains to feral dogs.
Meanwhile, some kind of pictorial evidence of last night's festivities may or not be forthcoming once I've had a look at it. Fun was had, anyway; and into the wilderness we go.
Posted by matt at February 26, 2004 12:00 AM
