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    Bad news: my gaming time will be reduced from this point forward. No longer will I be online in the early afternoons (with a short exception) or stupidly late at night during the week.

    Why?

    Good news: after an almost two year search following my graduation from college, I have finally been offered a J-O-B! I will be working as a probation officer for the same city court system HolyMan frequents when he has cases. He'll arrest them; I'll make sure they pay their fines after they're put on probation. Nine to five... hour for lunch (which is when I can pop home and game since I live so close to the office!)... and I can still game to eleven p.m. or midnight!

    So yeah... be happy for me, because me having a job means that HolyMan and I can finally move forward with our lives together!

    Edit: I have paperwork to submit, and it has to be approved before I can start work. I have about a week or week and a half of 'freedom' left. I will also be able to keep an eye on the forums from the office, too!


  • #2
    Good luck! That's pretty awesome, especially in this economy. I'm glad to hear things are working out well for both of you.


    And welcome to the Working Stiffs club. =D
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    • #3
      That's a great reason for not being on as much! Congrats!
      It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little - Do what you can.
      Sydney Smith.

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      • #4
        I am so happy for you!! But I am going to miiiiiiiiiiiiss you so much.
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        Glad everyone's being extra fucking ridiculous today.

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        • #5
          Congratulations!
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          • #6
            Congrats! .... But seriously get back to work.
            The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

            George Carlin

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            • #7
              Grats foog!

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              • #8
                YAY, I hope I don't have to come visit you though....that would be bad for my clearance.

                Love,
                ~Sapph

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                • #9
                  Congratulations!

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                  • #10
                    Congrats!!!
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                    • #11
                      Congratulations!
                      Cheers!

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                      • #12
                        One week down... many, many more to go! The new job is going well; only some of my defendants are completely bonkers.

                        It'll take me a bit to get into the routine where I work and then come home and multi-task everything I need to do at home while still gaming, but I'll get into the swing of things soon enough!

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by FoogooFish View Post
                          One week down... many, many more to go! The new job is going well; only some of my defendants are completely bonkers.

                          It'll take me a bit to get into the routine where I work and then come home and multi-task everything I need to do at home while still gaming, but I'll get into the swing of things soon enough!
                          Excellent, RL comez first. Good to hear from you again to.
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                          • #14
                            I have to revive this ol' thread yet again!

                            Bad news:
                            my gaming time will be reduced from this point forward.

                            Good news: even though I wasn't actually looking for a job, it appears I have one. I received a telephone call yesterday from a recruiter, and my university apparently sent her the résumé I created right before I graduated. I was asked to interview today, which I agreed to do because... why not?

                            I did no research. I didn't even have an updated résumé since it was last-minute and I wasn't actively seeking work. I hadn't had an actual 'real' interview in forever, so my interview skills were atrocious (IMO.) But apparently I'm still awesome even unprepared and rusty, so I was offered a position on the spot by the three interviewers, who were all store managers. They didn't even say they'd get in touch with me; it was 'well, that's all our questions... want the job?' Heh. One store manager who interviewed me tried her best to get me to work at her store, which is close-ish to me but still almost an hour commute.

                            I'll be an assistant manager at a nearby Wal*Mart, which is actually one of my favorite stores. I have to do two weeks of in-store training, and then I'll be sent elsewhere in the state for four weeks to do classroom training. Don't worry; I'm buying a laptop to take with me. I'll be working three days on / three days off after the training period, which means that there will be some days when I'm only IG a few hours in the evening and some days when I'm IG all day.

                            All in all I'm excited, because the starting pay is rather nice and I'm prepared for the work involved. I will miss endless gaming, but I figure I might ought to do something productive with that B.S. in Management I earned (other than leading Legion troops.)

                            So... huzzah!

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                            • #15
                              Yaaaay.
                              Lauan - knight of Thay " I have no fear, and death is merely an inconvenience to me. I do not die until ordered to do so, I do not fall until every last bit of life has left me. I stand tall, proud, a Thayan knight."

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                              "Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable." — James Baldwin

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