It's the best kind.

Well except for chocolate coins. Those are the actual best kind.

I use Monopoly money.

@Apple: As well as it can be, considering I'll be heading back to work in the main office next week.

That good or bad?

I trade dead budgerigars.

edited 17th Jul '13 7:24:33 AM by edvedd

I sell propane and propane accessories.

I finance both sides of a pointless corporate war to drive the participants to bankruptcy so I can buy them both at rockbottom prices.

I steal money from homeless puppies.

pony!Sylveon :3

Now that would be kind of impressive.

Strictly speaking, it's not anything. Pay'll stay the same, and work's work. But I also won't be near anyone from the industry, the conditions will be much worse, and I'll have to put out extra money a month to commute since the building is a half hour away by train, as opposed to three by walking.

So... no, yeah, I guess that's pretty objectively bad.

But my roommate has informed me of a job as a QA at his company, so I'm gonna apply for that, and he'll be able to put in a good word for me. Plus I'm gonna drop off a resume for QA where I work right now today, and ideally it'll only be a couple months before a design position opens up here, and I know and have spoken to the producer of said project, so if I can get a well-documented project into at least the prototype stage by then... Silver linings and all that.

Yeah silver linings.

Post of the Day #440

Anyone watch new girl?

I like jess.

This is surprisingly good for an edit

It's a- no it's not the Box Gundam!

edited 17th Jul '13 7:48:22 AM by AceOfScarabs

Man, after hearing about all of you guys, my job seems downright fun. I mean, it's not glamorous or anything, but it's one of the first jobs I've held where I feel like I'm actually being useful rather than just filling a slot that could have been filled by anybody. I'd still like to move up a bit (I'm definitely looking at getting a teaching license, especially since the principal of the school I work at has said that he'd let me teach to get the necessary teaching hours.

Of course, what I'd really like to do is write, but honestly I kinda prefer keeping that as a hobby. The minute I start trying to do it for money it'll add a whole new level of stress to it, not to mention that I'd have to start making concessions to make the story into something more marketable, which would suck most of the fun out of it. One of the things I like about writing my own stories is that I can write the kind of stuff I like.

But yeah, ponies.

@Apple: I've heard good things.

My ad writing job is pretty tedious on the occasion, but I'm glad I have it.

New Whose Line is pretty good.

@JT: My job isn't too bad, I get to go to all the MINDEF bases to help with certain projects, also I got to see an honest-to-goodness Metal Gear. Or at least I insist I saw one. Non-nuclear version of course.

Take a joyride in it.

Haven't seen it Apple, but from the Trope Page it sounds interesting.

Kinda makes me wonder how the mane six would get along rooming. Living with someone can change your opinion of them very fast, or make you a hell of a lot closer to them. In my last apartment one of the guys I got along with great, and still miss occasionally, and the other guy has the dubious honour of being the only person I have ever legitimately hated.

@JT: It's probably a good rule of thumb that at any point you don't hear me complaining about my job, it's because I enjoy it. Much as I hate to admit it, I frankly just like the chance to complain. IT's far from a perfect job, but conditions aside I could do a lot worse than QA.

Don't worry, my job's awesome.

@Ed: I don't have the ignition keys or the smartcard passes needed to get to the coldroom and furnace to reshape the memory alloy card :V

edited 17th Jul '13 8:03:19 AM by AceOfScarabs

Right you are. Just writing for fun and writing to get it published (meaning: almost always an original fiction) are on a different scale of effort. And writing it just to get it published and writing for money are on yet another scale of effort.

I am currently writing a novel (the working title - The Cemetery Girl, by the way), and so far I got 60k words, which 144 pages on A4 paper, and apparently that roughly translates into 210 pages on paperback. I initially planned to get it published by the end of this summer, but seeing how I am not even close to finish even the first draft, it's going to be a bit delayed, all right.

Shiny and Cadance kissing

@D Roy: Good luck. I do have an original project I'm working on, but it'll be nigh impossible to ever get it published simply because of the scope and the fact that I'm largely doing it to amuse myself and as a result it has very limited appeal. I might put it up on a website at some point just so curious people can look, but it would take me years to get it into a remotely publishable form.

@Ed: Yeah, the first two episodes were actually pretty awesome. Hopefully they can keep it up.

edited 17th Jul '13 8:09:51 AM by JapaneseTeeth