[m4w] trashpicking a new soul

dumpster diving for jesus? ok, not precisely.

Is your life increasingly full of fertilizer? Then take up gardening!

Spearhead said it best:
Love is the shit, that makes life bloom, you never know when you're going to step in it.

My love life usually feels like an all shit/no pony sort of deal. Although that infers I'm optimistic.

::

Work is interfering my LJ use. I now have my 2 weekly deadlines, and at least one other newsletter a week. My team jokes that they stole my passport. "We're not letting you leave the country." Tomorrow may be my only day off for months.

I write while sulking in my corner getting ready for another round with Distiller, which is being an extreme Butt today.

I may be Speedy Gonzales on the ol' Quark, but the architects of the job description for my neighbor's replacement have delusions of InDesign expertise dancing in their heads.

Will they realize that almost anyone with sufficient high-volume exposure to InDesign at this early date was trained on the job by a company that is probably unwilling to part with them just yet? The rest of us have just been perusing tutorials, trying to find an affordable more than one day long class, and wondering when exactly we'll be assigned actual on-the-job experience.

I fully expect them to hire some recent grad who can't reformat a boring-ass print job from copier to offset and back in their sleep (yet) but has a certificate in InDesign because they've spent maybe a whole day more with it than I have. Never make up for my speed. Never be happy with the creativity to chore ratio. Sheepishly offer me a permanent job in a year, if I haven't been budgeted out and locked into a different contract by then.

If we're really going to convert everything to InDesign (Quark could bounce back, Mac had years of a similarly suicidal business plan and they're still with us), it will have happened by then. Honestly, I'm not going to really learn InDesign until it's all that stands between me and my work deadlines. At this point, I know it as well as Framemaker, which is not saying much, but is probably about as much as any resume they'll get.

::

what a pretty, lovely, sunny day.
looks so nice and warm outside.
it's lying!

[m4w] trashpicking a new soul

dumpster diving for jesus? ok, not precisely.

Is your life increasingly full of fertilizer? Then take up gardening!

Spearhead said it best:
Love is the shit, that makes life bloom, you never know when you're going to step in it.

My love life usually feels like an all shit/no pony sort of deal. Although that infers I'm optimistic.

::

Work is interfering my LJ use. I now have my 2 weekly deadlines, and at least one other newsletter a week. My team jokes that they stole my passport. "We're not letting you leave the country." Tomorrow may be my only day off for months.

I write while sulking in my corner getting ready for another round with Distiller, which is being an extreme Butt today.

I may be Speedy Gonzales on the ol' Quark, but the architects of the job description for my neighbor's replacement have delusions of InDesign expertise dancing in their heads.

Will they realize that almost anyone with sufficient high-volume exposure to InDesign at this early date was trained on the job by a company that is probably unwilling to part with them just yet? The rest of us have just been perusing tutorials, trying to find an affordable more than one day long class, and wondering when exactly we'll be assigned actual on-the-job experience.

I fully expect them to hire some recent grad who can't reformat a boring-ass print job from copier to offset and back in their sleep (yet) but has a certificate in InDesign because they've spent maybe a whole day more with it than I have. Never make up for my speed. Never be happy with the creativity to chore ratio. Sheepishly offer me a permanent job in a year, if I haven't been budgeted out and locked into a different contract by then.

If we're really going to convert everything to InDesign (Quark could bounce back, Mac had years of a similarly suicidal business plan and they're still with us), it will have happened by then. Honestly, I'm not going to really learn InDesign until it's all that stands between me and my work deadlines. At this point, I know it as well as Framemaker, which is not saying much, but is probably about as much as any resume they'll get.

::

what a pretty, lovely, sunny day.
looks so nice and warm outside.
it's lying!