Wednesday, February 07, 2007

End of an Era

As of Monday, The League returns to the drudgery of the work force. My status as a hobo has been rescinded.

Alas.

No more staying up until 3:00 AM reading funny books and teaching Jeff the Cat how to Flamenco dance. That's gonna have to happen between 10:00 and 11:00 from now on. Nor shall there be any more getting up and watching News8 and Headline News throughout the morning as I eat my Grape Nuts, check e-mail and hit the job boards. (I confess, I am not going to miss hitting the job boards.)

The position is one heck of an opportunity. Longtime Leaguers will know that, as a rule, I don't talk about work. But is it okay to say really good things? I can say the job is outside of the realm of public institutions of higher education. It's relatively close to League HQ. The folks seem really nice who I'll be working with, and I'm going to be only a small hop from Rudy's BBQ. The job let's me do what I like to do, with an eye on growth. I know who my customers are, and there's no question of how I'm reaching them. The organization does something I think serves the public interest, so I get to be a tiny cog in that machine.

In short, I'm really looking forward to my role as a lion tamer at the Austin Zoo.

(are there lion tamers any more? How do you train for that? There seems to be little room for error.)

So, you know, a job. That's the dream, isn't it? I like money, and it turns out that you really need it to get by in our post-industrial society. Apparently the city of Asutin talks a good game, but at the end of the day, they want for me to pay for water and trash collection. So much for them being MY representatives.

Stupid money.

Anyway, it was a good run of unemployment, and I really fulfilled my Office Space dream of doing absolutely nothing. Unfortunately, my dream was somewhat hampered by the NBA not playing daytime games during the week. Nor was the World Cup on. And baseball doesn't start until late spring.

Still, it was a good run.

So, yeah. I got a job.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Crazy Astronautwoman gets fired for attempted murder.....Ryan lands a job the next day....hmmmmm.....coincidence, or something much much more ????

Seriously, I would like to thank the new Westlake Hooters for hiring, what I believe, will be a top notch manager and talent scout.

Good luck, and happy hooters.
Peabo

Anonymous said...

Congratulations!

Anonymous said...

Fantastic news, I wish you the best of luck and I know you will do great.

Anonymous said...

Congratulations--somewhat belated. I think that your long wait may be rewarded with a really cool job here. Hope so anyway.

The League said...

here? Are the good folks of St. Jude lurking?

Steven said...

I can only assume that it had something to do with the good karma engendered by our watchng the puppy bowl!

This is great news and congratulations! I can only assume we'll have more good discussions about where the fetishistic joy of semantics and code modeling collides with your pragmatic delivery of content.

Good luck!

Steven