Finally, after 6 months of living in DC, I got a job. No more working for a temp agency and not knowing where I’d be working from one day to the next, let alone IF I would be working!
My new job isn’t glamorous. I’m working as an energy price reporter for Natural Gas Week, an industry newsletter. The content is dry and I’ll be working with prices all day, but the pay isn’t bad, they pay for all of our benefits (which are actually pretty good), and I can wear jeans if I want. Plus, they have all the free soda, coffee, etc. you want to drink!
Plus, I can get to it on the subway so I don’t have to worry about driving or paying to park.
Now all I have to do is wait til Sept. 15 for my first check!
Happy about the job. Sounds intensely boring, but so is mine. All jobs are unglamorous, if you think about it. Instead, think of how you have the inside track on gas futures. You can even influence prices! You could make a mint!
Insider trading? How the hell are you supposed to make money in the market if you’re not an insider? It’s supposed to be a craps-shoot for everybody? Screw that!
Yeah, you said I couldn’t read this until today. Interesting but you already knew my sentiments.
Dropzone, in his contract he is not allowed to do any short term gas trading nor is he allowed to do futures investments involving natural gas if I remember correctly. Sigh, I wonder if that leaves me out of it. hehehehe
Darn it, DCNewsman, there goes the last thing I could have dangled in front of SqrlCub to lure him away from you.
(“I’m big and cute…but so is he. And he’s right there and I’m in Texas. But at least I have a JOB and I can buy you pretty things, Cubby!”)
Sigh. So much for THAT argument.
(and everyone, let’s please not bother to make jokes about the other thing I could “dangle” in front of SqrlCub, okay? This isn’t the “Porky’s” message board.)
Yay! Yay! Yay! I’m doing the happy dance for you DCNewsman!! (What are my co-workers lookin’ at?) I loved my first paycheck here–what a f@#king relief! Of course, it was THREE weeks worth so it was extra nice looking when I finally had it in hand. Congratulations–that is SOOOOOO terrific.
Hmmm, an interesting legal question better asked of someone who knows what he’s talking about, but I’ll try anyway. Even if you two live together, DC doesn’t recognize same-sex couples, does it? So any spousal problems don’t exist. I think being friends mught screw you out of it, but somebody would have to investigate.
I could save you all that legal folderol: give me the tips (Hey! Mind outa the gutter, Cubster! And I don’t believe that “Ed Asner in a Speedo” fantasy for a second!) and I can invest them for myself, since I don’t REALLY know either of you!
And Peta, don’t worry, it won’t take you too many months of being out of Cleveland that pop will become soda. Now when I go back, it sounds funny to hear people say soda.
And Cheffy, unless you are here cooking for both of us, hands off.
