# I'm employed! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-employed/352997 "2006-04-17T13:40:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-employed/352997/1 "2006-04-17T13:40:37Z")
I just got a job! The second one in four days! I’ve been doing interviews and all kinds of things. Didnb’t get much of anything. On Thursday, I went out for an interview but didn’t really thin I’d get the job. It’s fun, well-paid work recording foundation status in preparation for blasting and mining (among other things). When I got back home, I picked up the phone and was offereed a job by a totally different company doing something completely different! It was a company I’d always wanted to work with: great place. I went in the very next day to start training. Today, I woke up and got an offer this very morning (like, 30 minutes ago) from the first company! It’s a good offer and the kind of neat thing I want to do. Good pay (not astounding, but I’m just starting, right?) and intersting work. I was sad to cancel on the people I’d just got in with, but I felt I had to do it. (I was technically temping, too.) I practically leaped out of my shoes for this one. Ecstatic “Yes!” flew from my joyful lips. I so wanted this job. I wasn’t sure it would be right for me when I first heard about it, but the more I find out about it, the more I like. Thank you to all the dopers who tolerated my annoying employment rants/depression during my long job-quest. PS: Thank you God! Happy Easter everyone! I know mine is! ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-employed/352997/2 "2006-04-17T13:53:21Z")
Great news! May I borrow some of your employment karma? I promise I’ll give it back when I’m done with it. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-employed/352997/3 "2006-04-17T14:29:26Z")
I’m not sure you really want it… it took a very long time to get started on me… 🙂 But I’m thanking it all the same. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-employed/352997/4 "2006-04-17T14:35:10Z")
Congratulations. Wishing you luck and joy in your new career. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Mr.Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Roboto)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-employed/352997/5 "2006-04-18T05:18:37Z")
Great, now you can pay taxes, lots of taxes-way past your fair share of taxes.