You may have noticed that I’ve been bitching about my job lately. A LOT. And I see no end in sight.
This whole stupid episode will probably become one of those defining stories of my life, and I can totally see myself at age 76 sitting under a covered patio with a glass of Jim Beam in one hand and a fly swatter in the other as my granddaughters listen to me tell the great eBay war story of ’05, AGAIN.
As I haven’t got much patience for whining, I’m beginning to annoy even myself. So I have devised a cunning plan. Ok, so no, it has nothing to do with BlackAdder – but it feels like BlackAdder and I love BlackAdder, so I’ll digress with whatever I want.
Step 1
Don’t post or email updates for Idaho Beach for a good long while. Family and friends will forget about it, and then I can write really mean things about them.
Step 2
Register on Monster.com. Do the resume’ thing, the networking thing, and the career newsletter thing. Get nineteen hundred email job offers for ‘independent’ sales positions and pyramid schemes.
Step 3
Save every scrap of work I’ve ever done for eBay onto CD. Take it home to create a digital portfolio. Realize that the Paint program on my laptop is not gonna cut it. Save to buy $500 Adobe Illustrator software.
Step 4
Take a break and blow off some steam by creating another blog that pokes a little fun at eBay Support and last year’s decision-making mascot, RASCI. http://gypsymongoose.blogspot.com/. Note: the traveling RASCI idea was a discussion topic at an actual taskforce meeting last year. Someone brought up how much they hated the thing and derailed the meeting for 30 minutes.
Step 5
Get some decent design books, take online desktop publishing classes, produce free materials for local businesses, create yet another website – http://maaspublications.typepad.com/ – all in the hopes of building opportunities for a) possible freelance/permanent design jobs and b) telling my current bosses to step the freak OFF sometime really, really soon.
Feel free to check out my new website, but keep in mind I’ve had it all of two days. I’ve got a fairly particular idea of how I want it to look, and as I’m a newbie with TypePad, most of what’s posted is me trying to figure out how to put what where.
And so, off I go! With a bing and a bong and a buzz buzz buzz!
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