Michael R. Barrick's blog

This new gig is mind-numbing. I at least have a couple of things to do today, but nothing taxing. On the one hand it is easy money, too easy really - it feels like theft. But on the other hand it feels like a tiny murder. I'm going to lose three months of my life here. I felt kind a desperate last night to do something and found to my horror that after spending three days in an almost bodhisatva-like state of perfect blankness I couldn't get my mind sparked up enough to come up with anything.

I just started a relatively short contract job today. It's pretty much on the level of the sort of work I was doing about 10 years ago, but these days underemployed beats unemployed, so I took the gig. And one day in I have to wonder how a lot of people occupying I.T. positions stay employed at all. I have a baseline criteria for evaluating a workplace: if my home network is technically superior, they fail.

The Basics

Let me start by glossing over some of the classic arguments against extraterrestrial visitors:

This year's shiny new pennies come out :-)

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/881374.html