New job

JongWK · Post by **JongWK** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:00 pm

It was a quarter past three in the afternoon here, when the phone rang. I picked it and a familiar voice spoke to me.

Former Boss' Son: "Hey Jong, would you care to visit the magazine in one hour?"
Me: (wary) "What for?"
FBS: "We need your help for this number, plus there might be a solid offer for you."
Me: "Uhm, Ok."

So it turns out they want me as Editor. Payment would be almost three times more than what I used to earn before I quit a year ago (not that I earned too much, but this would be a decent improvement).

Details are still being sorted out. Stay tuned!

Reika · Post by **Reika** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:15 pm

Much good luck!

Eva · Post by **Eva** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:39 am

Awesome. What kind of magazine is this?

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:28 pm

Who cares? Go JW!

JongWK · Post by **JongWK** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:09 pm

Eva wrote:Awesome. What kind of magazine is this?

A weekly entertainment mag. It has everything that will happen next week in Montevideo, plus highlights from the Interior (er, the rest of the country... shows how much of a city dweller I am

). The magazine has like 16 years of existence.

The previous Editor left everything up in the air: no notes, no finished articles, nada. This week's deadline is going to be soooo funny. :shock:

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FlakJacket · Post by **FlakJacket** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:07 pm

JongWK wrote:It has everything that will happen next week in Montevideo, plus highlights from the Interior (er, the rest of the country... shows how much of a city dweller I am ).

Well the place does make up nearly a third of the of the national population or so IIRC.

The magazine has like 16 years of existence.

Oh come on now, don't sell yourself short. I'm sure you can run it into the ground much faster than that.

Congratulations.

Brineshrimp · Post by **Brineshrimp** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:44 pm

Congrats, sir!

It must be something in the air, as I too have landed a new job.

During a time when teaching jobs are scarce (at least in Ohio), I found two. I leave the current job Aug. 5 and start the new one Aug. 23. I can't wait.

Caine Hazen · Post by **Caine Hazen** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 3:22 pm

COngratz to you JK!

And do you mind telling me what school district you're gonna be warping young minds in Brine...so I can warn all my friends with kids

Brineshrimp · Post by **Brineshrimp** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:41 pm

Willoughby-Eastlake in Northeast Ohio. Willoughby South High School to be exact.

With students these days, I doubt you have to worry about them. Chances are, they could teach me a thing or two.

Anguirel · Post by **Anguirel** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:57 am

Brineshrimp wrote:Willoughby-Eastlake in Northeast Ohio. Willoughby South High School to be exact.

With students these days, I doubt you have to worry about them. Chances are, they could teach me a thing or two.

Ohio High School? If I remember my biology rightly, that means they should just entering the "throwing their own poop" stage of intellectuiual development. You'll fit right in, Brine.

Brineshrimp · Post by **Brineshrimp** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:41 pm

Nah, the bastards are past that stage. Damn my luck.

JongWK · Post by **JongWK** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:04 pm

**Update**

Been working like Hell, but today's Thursday and that means I can relax --weekly deadlines are on Wednesdays (a day that makes Bulldrek look sane by comparison). Still getting used to all my duties, and improving the deadline time (we're still lagging behind the optimum, but it's better than the past week... I hope we fix it soon or I might have schedule problems with University).

Today's July 14. It's Bastille Day in France, but to me it's my father's birthday. He'd be 59 today, having died in a car crash on June 29 of '92 (yeah, these winter weeks are particularly depressing).

I keep wondering at where I would be now if that hadn't happened. A fucked up teenhood and my family's economic woes might have not been there, true, but I suspect I might have never found out about RPGs and you guys.

Yeah, it's that time of the year.

Dad, I miss you.