January 2012
34 posts
i sounded like such a grownup, douche bag in that last post… is this what having an office job does to a person?? to quote Charlie Brown “augh!”
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Forbes Travel offered me the position. i have 48 hours (more like 43 now) to make a decision.
here’s the catch—it’s for less than half what i make now; it’s an internship for likely 6 months before it’d be full time; even upon gaining a staff position, i’d make exactly what i make now; no health benefits for ‘til i’m on staff; no guarantees, no...
blackbeatnik asked: You are such an inspiration to me and I hope I become as awesome a copy-editor as you are. I hope that wasn't creepy seeing as how I don't really know you or anything about you besides what I see here. So yeah... back to reading my Patterns for Purpose textbook.
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sam amidon — saro
saving my soul today
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WatchKodacrome at the Hideout, Chicago
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just finished an amazing interview at Forbes Travel. the position, though only an internship (paying less than half the salary I fought so hard for for six months), sounds so amazing. if they offer I might take it—I feel like I have to. my job is killing me, and getting worse, near daily.
December 2011
42 posts
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mimicking birds — under and in rocks
I’m...
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youth lagoon — goodbye again (john denver...
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after fighting for it for months (not to mention the years of struggling to get back to it), my company offered me a salaried staff position—19 paid vacation days, 401k, insurance, and on and on.
Funny thing is—I didn’t sign the contract. Im sure I will tomorrow, but, signing away my soul to join corporate America officially..? Maybe this is just my last act of defiance (as I was lectured...
“Impossible odds, but comparatively they’re really not / there will always...”
– mimicking birds
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bon iver — beth/rest (solo piano version)
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