# I've got a new job. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 19, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699 "2010-08-19T02:37:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/1 "2010-08-19T02:37:16Z")
This is a followup to this thread: [My wonderful new job... Oh Shit! - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=569192) in which I described how I lost my job, and 2 weeks of pay, because of a dishonest CEO and an FBI raid. I was only out of work for about a month. Now I’m in the fourth week of a much better job. More responsibility, more money, and Friday I move into the big corner office! (I’m trying to decide if it’s because they like me or because they want to move me away from everyone else… :dubious:) Anyway, this one feels like a real job. That last thing felt like amateur hour right from the start. I liked my immediate coworkers and it was a fun place to work (other than the Kafkaesque way it ended), but I couldn’t see how it could last. It was a startup and they didn’t seem to be able to sell anything we did. Before that, for a number of years I had nothing but occasional freelance computer work and whatever else I could get, including mystery shopping, retrieving recalled goods from retail stores, and doing online evaluations of search engine results (yes, those are all real, paying jobs). I finally feel like my career is back on track. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/2 "2010-08-19T05:23:49Z")
Congratulations to you, too! (Lots of that going around right now. 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/3 "2010-08-19T08:40:09Z")
That’s good to hear. Good luck! Hope things will come around for you and stick that way. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/4 "2010-08-19T09:43:57Z")
Congratulations! Tremendous relief, ain’t it? ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/5 "2010-08-19T11:00:47Z")
Congratulations! (This is the second “I got a job!” thread I saw today - I hope there are a lot more in the near future!) ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/6 "2010-08-20T05:35:10Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Congratulations! Tremendous relief, ain’t it? You have that right. My (involuntary) freelance whatever makes money lifestyle left me lacking the quarters needed to qualify for unemployment, so I would have rapidly run out of options. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/7 "2010-08-20T09:59:24Z")
Congrats. May this job go much better than your previous one. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/8 "2010-08-20T10:58:00Z")
Wishing you luck and joy in your new career. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/9 "2010-08-20T11:39:38Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Friday I move into the big corner office! I hear this is where it usually starts to go wrong… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/10 "2010-08-20T12:35:58Z")
Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/11 "2010-08-20T14:33:14Z")
Congrats, and keep up the good work! ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/12 "2010-08-20T14:37:29Z")
Fan - TAS - tic! ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/13 "2010-08-22T03:02:24Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > > [@davidm](#): > > > > Friday I move into the big corner office! > > I hear this is where it usually starts to go wrong… Well, at that last job the raid did occur on the day I was moving into my own office… But the move yesterday went without a hitch and without any raids. Actually a bunch of people were changing offices. It was kind of like “musical offices”. Some of the moves made no sense to me - why move someone one office down the hall to another identical office (and this was after moving the original occupant of _that_ office into my old office)? But mine is not to question why… Since part of my job is IT support, I had to move and re-hookup everyone’s computer equipment. Some of the people being moved were company bigwigs, which made me a little nervous. Fortunately it went well and they even seemed impressed that it was done so quickly and everything was working correctly afterward. So I guess I’ve made a good impression in my first month. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/14 "2010-08-22T03:26:44Z")
Congratulations! Can I give you a “high 5”? Maybe the luck will rub off–I still need a job… : ) ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/15 "2010-08-22T03:52:18Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > > [@davidm](#): > > > > Friday I move into the big corner office! > > I hear this is where it usually starts to go wrong… > [@luv2draw](#): > > Congratulations! > > Can I give you a “high 5”? Maybe the luck will rub off–I still need a job… : ) If you think it will help, sure. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/16 "2010-08-22T04:25:16Z")
That’s weird. I have no idea how bucketybuck’s message got quoted in my last reply. 😕 I was only trying to quote luv2draw’s post. Maybe a mod can remove the extraneous quote. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/17 "2010-08-22T04:26:54Z")
> [@luv2draw](#): > > Congratulations! > > Can I give you a “high 5”? Maybe the luck will rub off–I still need a job… : ) For you and anyone else who’s interested, here’s how I got the job. Some of you may find this useful: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12827856#post12827856](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12827856#post12827856) ---
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/18 "2010-08-22T20:47:12Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > > [@luv2draw](#): > > > > Congratulations! > > > > Can I give you a “high 5”? Maybe the luck will rub off–I still need a job… : ) > > For you and anyone else who’s interested, here’s how I got the job. Some of you may find this useful: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12827856#post12827856](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12827856#post12827856) Thank you! Never thought to post my own ad. I look there and am careful because of a lot of junk postings so I guess I can be careful looking at responses to mine. You never know… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-new-job/550699/19 "2010-08-23T01:18:55Z")
> [@luv2draw](#): > > Thank you! Never thought to post my own ad. I look there and am careful because of a lot of junk postings so I guess I can be careful looking at responses to mine. You never know… > > 😃 You’re very welcome. I hope it works for you.