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Jan. 12th, 2001 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishNo more flipping burgers
Putting on my silly hat
You know I don't want that no more
--Reel Big Fish, "Sell Out"
I got a call from Exegetics this morning at just before ten. Normally I'd be irritated at anyone who calls me while I'm still lazing around in bed for what I expect to be the last day of vacation before I have to go back to Sbarro and be a short-order cook on Monday, but it was from Exegetics so I forgave them.
Exegetics is a company with an office here in Bleaksburg. They make programs to digitally store government files that no one will ever look at but have to be stored for thirty years anyway. A lot of my friends work there. They've got two applications that have to get out the door by the end of March for which coding isn't quite finished yet-- nevermind testing. I applied to work there over Christmas as a code tester and documentation writer, but I hadn't heard back from them, so I figured it had gone nowhere.
Mikayla (who's currently wearing the Human Resources hat at Exegetics) was the one who called. She offered me a full-time position as a tester/documenter.
With benefits.
Salaried.
Roughly twice what I'd asked for and close to three times what I was making at Sbarro.
I was already lying down, so I didn't fall over.
Life is good.
And then... I log onto Pyramid (an online gaming magazine) and find that they accepted and printed a review I wrote for them in the space of about two hours so I could have a writing sample to show to Exegetics with my resume.
I'm published.
I'm gainfully employed.
Life is SO good.
Putting on my silly hat
You know I don't want that no more
--Reel Big Fish, "Sell Out"
I got a call from Exegetics this morning at just before ten. Normally I'd be irritated at anyone who calls me while I'm still lazing around in bed for what I expect to be the last day of vacation before I have to go back to Sbarro and be a short-order cook on Monday, but it was from Exegetics so I forgave them.
Exegetics is a company with an office here in Bleaksburg. They make programs to digitally store government files that no one will ever look at but have to be stored for thirty years anyway. A lot of my friends work there. They've got two applications that have to get out the door by the end of March for which coding isn't quite finished yet-- nevermind testing. I applied to work there over Christmas as a code tester and documentation writer, but I hadn't heard back from them, so I figured it had gone nowhere.
Mikayla (who's currently wearing the Human Resources hat at Exegetics) was the one who called. She offered me a full-time position as a tester/documenter.
With benefits.
Salaried.
Roughly twice what I'd asked for and close to three times what I was making at Sbarro.
I was already lying down, so I didn't fall over.
Life is good.
And then... I log onto Pyramid (an online gaming magazine) and find that they accepted and printed a review I wrote for them in the space of about two hours so I could have a writing sample to show to Exegetics with my resume.
I'm published.
I'm gainfully employed.
Life is SO good.
