# Re-Employed, and it feels so good! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 14, 1999, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072 "1999-12-14T20:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072/1 "1999-12-14T20:00:00Z")
Well, I’ve ended my six-week paycheck drought yesterday…with a dream job! I’m working for a dot-com, twenty minutes’ walk from my house, for a higher salary than I was making at the place I got laid off of! Wa-hoo! * * * Chaim Mattis Keller [cmkeller@compuserve.com](mailto:cmkeller@compuserve.com) “Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.” – Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072/2 "1999-12-14T20:00:00Z")
Yay!!! Congrats! ::throws confetti:: * * * “There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.” - William James ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072/3 "1999-12-14T20:03:00Z")
CM, congrats!!! What an awesome opportunity!! BTW, your advice on “the care and feeding of programmers” has come in handy at my new job!! 😉 Again, congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072/4 "1999-12-14T22:51:00Z")
Great news, CMK! Break a leg! * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072/5 "1999-12-14T22:56:00Z")
Funny, cmkeller, I always figured you for a “.org” kind of guy. Good luck on your new job! And one thing I have to watch for myself: don’t spend too much time at your new job goofing off on the SDMB. * * * Quand les talons claquent, l’esprit se vide. Maréchal Lyautey ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072/6 "1999-12-14T22:56:00Z")
Terrific! On behalf of the NY SDMBer’s, I’d like to take credit for creating the good aura that made this possible. Who knows? Stay at our next meeting for a little while longer, and you just might get some options! 😉 Glad to see you back on-line. * * * Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine ---
**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072/7 "1999-12-15T01:21:00Z")
Waaa-hoooo!! Funny how things work sometimes, huh? Congratulations! * * * “…all the prettiest girls live in Des Moines…” –Jack Kerouac, _On the Road_ ---
**Author:** ![Jois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@Jois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jois)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072/8 "1999-12-15T05:43:00Z")
Yea! Is it having a place to go or getting that pay check - either way, it’s great! ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072/9 "1999-12-15T07:04:00Z")
Wonderful news, cmkeller! I hope things keep going well for you. Can’t beat walking to work; I have a ten minute walk to _my_ dot com. ---
**Author:** ![jazzmine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jazzmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jazzmine)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072/10 "1999-12-15T07:32:00Z")
Congratulations! I get to work for my .com at home, so here’s wishing you luck on moving up to the next level ;). trisha ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072/11 "1999-12-15T08:24:00Z")
Yay, cmkeller! Congratulations; it’s great to be doing what you love! Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072/12 "1999-12-15T15:47:00Z")
Let me add my congrats as well! It’s also nice to see you posting again. Live long and prosper! ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072/13 "1999-12-15T17:03:00Z")
CM- I am happy for you, and I am in a similar situation. Today is my last day at a nasty sweatshop type job that I have to drive through rush hour traffic to get to. I start my new job on 1/3/2000 with a 60% pay increase and it’s a 15 minute walk from my doorstep. If ever there was a reason to party… ---
**Author:** ![Cap\_n\_Crude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Cap\_n\_Crude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Crude)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072/14 "1999-12-15T19:12:00Z")
Mazel tov, CMK!! I knew it would have to happen. All thanks to manhattan and the positive aura. * * * –Da Cap’n “Playin’ solitaire 'til dawn With a deck of fifty-one.” ---
**Author:** ![Cap\_n\_Crude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Cap\_n\_Crude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Crude)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072/15 "1999-12-15T19:13:00Z")
Mazel tov, CMK!! I knew it would have to happen. All thanks to manhattan and the positive aura. * * * –Da Cap’n “Playin’ solitaire 'til dawn With a deck of fifty-one.” ---
**Author:** ![Cap\_n\_Crude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Cap\_n\_Crude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Crude)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 1999, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072/16 "1999-12-15T19:14:00Z")
There, ya see? I’m so happy for you that I double-posted! * * * –Da Cap’n “Playin’ solitaire 'til dawn With a deck of fifty-one.” ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-employed-and-it-feels-so-good/12072/17 "1999-12-17T04:16:00Z")
Thanks for the good wishes, folks, and for the positive aura, manhattan (I’m sure that it helped that TubaDiva added a moderator’s vlessing to the meeting!). Now, where did I leave that alarm clock six weeks ago…? 🙂 Chaim Mattis Keller