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again, my work
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Jun. 11th, 2008 @ 09:26 pm
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How many of you have experience with medical billing?
How many of you have experience with well-kept medical charts?
This is not my job. The former is; not the latter.
My job is to search for needles in haystacks. The needles are 5 digit codes; the haystacks are the most wretched execrable excuses for medical record-keeping. It's like a giant game of Where's Waldo? only much less colorful.
These charts are starting to make my brain hurt. One would expect that a doctor's office would keep decent records. Not this one! In every chart there's something misplaced or misfiled. In nearly every chart there are days just ... missing. Gone. Not there. There was activity on that day; I can tell from the Medicaid report. But the chart I check against, to make sure that every procedure actually done was actually paid for just isn't there.
In my world, things make sense. They make sense to me because I organize them (or not) in a fashion that is logical to me, in a fashion that I hope is logical and understandable to other people. I can appreciate the beauty in logic and organization that others impose on things. Were I office manager here, this never would have happened.
I understand why the records are the way they are. The period of time I'm looking at is from June 2006 to August '07, when the clinic closed. After Katrina in summer '05, it was difficult to keep good people working in New Orleans, as they headed for other areas.
It's making me tired. It's making my bran hurt. It's giving me cognitive fatigue -- think about how your body feels after you've been doing physical labor or working out. That's what's happening to me, only my brain is what's getting tired.
This is easily one of the more demanding jobs I've had. Low stress, high demands. But hey, I wanted a challenge. That's what I got.Tunes: Kula Shaker - Great Hosannah |
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finally, an update
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May. 3rd, 2008 @ 06:57 pm
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Well, apparently some of you are curious about my job. And in this first-real-entry-in-a-while, I'll tell you about it.
It's a small office, set up in an apartment. There's three people there, plus one part timer. I'm doing stuff I've never done before -- namely working with medical records. This doctor moved here from Louisiana, after Katrina hit. He had a lot of records, a lot of equipment; he was the head of one of those practices called "Fixy McFixalot, MD & Associates."
Not only did Katrina put a crimp in his practice, but in the last year or two he was in business, he outsourced his billing to a company that did a terrible job. They missed at least one claim in three. If the claim was never submitted, then it was never paid by Medicare or Medicaid or whatever insurance company the patient might have had. So the doctor has tens of thousands of dollars that live in a few thousand feet of shelved patient files.
One of the things I'm doing is helping him audit these records -- going through them and cross referencing the work that was done on a patient versus the work that was actually paid for. It's different; I've never really had a head for columns of figures or dense tables, much less poor photocopies of charts and cryptic handwritten notes. But it's kind of fun at the same time. It's kind of like a treasure hunt, only without the pretty jewelry at the end.
The other thing I'm doing is high-level conceptual work. The doctor has lots of great ideas, one of which is somehow making this business of data mining viable and extensible to others. In other words, this billing company screwed up on him, so it stands to reason that other practices also have money languishing in similar files. I'm trying to help make this happen for him. He's got most of the tools in place, like computers, a good database program, and a high speed scanner. He said that he's willing to purchase the other necessary tools\, like Adobe Acrobat Professional (he's been turning scanned files into Portable Document Format, but we need something better than the free Reader) and some optical character recognition software (to turn the PDF images into searchable text). He also wants to know at a glance what procedures were done on which patients, and the database is the ticket to doing that.
So it's all new territory for me. I've never worked with medical records, and I haven't worked with databases since college. They seem to like me, they seem to trust me, and I hope I can do right by them.
I'm happy to say that for once, I was at the right place at the right time. I've needed a job like this for some time -- challenging, low stress, not working for The Man in some way. It's all 1099 work, meaning I have to pay my own taxes, but beggahs canna be choosahs, right?
All in all, it's a good gig, and I'm happy I have it. The doctor is a smart man, crazy with ideas, and a lot like me. The person who I'm assisting is a sweetheart, too.Tunes: the world going by while outside |
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Dec. 20th, 2007 @ 08:30 pm
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Well, I got one of my Yule wishes ...
I start doing graphic design work at a student loan corporation ... tomorrow. Friday. The Friday before the major observed Yule holiday.
Not just any work. Graphic design work.
Eep!
It's far north of here. It's over 20 miles away, on the north side of town. I'm on the south side. I don't have a radio in my car -- thank god I at least have an iPod. I'm not keen on driving through traffic. Use of the toll roads might make things easier. But looking at the map, that route takes me quite a bit out of my way.
And it pays ... oh, it pays a lot. I've had just one job that paid me more, and that was only a dollar an hour more than this.
So yeah ... equal parts of squeee! and yeeeep!
The contract is supposed to last three weeks to a month. So if you wonder where I am -- that's where.Tunes: Venus Hum - Montana |
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I can't win!
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Dec. 3rd, 2007 @ 05:30 pm
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... or maybe I can. Depending on how you look at it.
Last post I talked about me dealing blackjack, right? I signed up to do it again this coming weekend. Friday I will be going to ... get this ...
The Four Seasons Hotel.
Now, this may not mean anything to you, but I used to work supporting high-end hotels. And this one is the high end of the high end. This is almost the Ritz-Carlton. This is the hotel where nightly rates start at $ZOMGRIDICULOUS and people leave half-drunk glasses of Glenlivet in the elevator.
Last week was Barton Creek Country Club, this week the Four Seasons ... what's next?
The day after, I'll be going to the Hyatt Regency -- almost as ritzy.
So yeah. Man, I need a haircut!
I'm grateful for getting the reason/excuse to go there ... I just hope they feed us :)Tunes: The Dandy Warhols - You Were the Last High |
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Part time shenanigans
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Dec. 1st, 2007 @ 06:49 pm
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Last night I started a part time job. Longtime readers will know that this has been difficult for me.
Now, though, I am being a casino dealer! So far I'm only doing one game -- blackjack -- and last night was the first time I'd ever done it. It was actually lots of fun -- more than I realized it would be.
I've got the motions and mechanics down pretty well. The hard part for me is remembering what total each of the players have. As you probably already know about blackjack, a player can have up to five or six cards, and I just haven't internalized all the math combinations yet. I can add in my head, it just takes me a little while. The night before last I didn't sleep well for some reason, so I went there tired. Not really good, but the other dealers were helpful, and the energy drink was a boon as well.
I had my first party at the Barton Creek Country Club -- eep! It's in far west Austin; very rich and ritzy area. It was a corporate holiday party I was working, and easily half of the employees were Indians. A number of them -- even some of the men -- were in traditional dress. I had a couple of self-professed blackjack newbies at my table, and they stayed there pretty much the entire night, except when they had dinner.
Speaking of dinner -- OMG! My employers had told me to not expect to be fed, so I had a chopped barbeque sandwich on the way out there. As it happened, they invited us to dig in too. Man, that was some good food! There were hors-d'oeuvres that I did not partake of. (We're allowed to accept tips and food, but we're not allowed to solicit them.) Anyway, on the buffet tables there was salad with some tasty-yet-unfamiliar dressing not unlike Thousand Island, but definitely not There was some kind of fruit, which I think was cold cut and brandied plums. There was something that looked like potato salad, but turned out to be a very tasty apple salad -- three different kinds of apples in some most excellent sauce. There were roasted winter vegetables, which weren't all that good -- sort of tasteless.
Following that was mostaccoli casserole -- that's a pasta like ziti -- and a rice pilaf with lots of wild rice. For the main course there was stuffed chicken medallions in a roast chestnut sauce -- very good -- and salmon that I didn't try. They also had two soups, a lobster bisque and a wild mushroom soup. I didn't try those either.
I'm almost sorry I ate beforehand, but man, that chopped barbeque sandwich was really good too. And I had to take care of myself! Waiting too long to eat makes Anam a very unhappy lad.
Oh, and they had dessert, too. Man! I had a slice of a dense chocolate mousse pie and a raspberry Linzer torte. They also offered pumpkin pie, dutch apple pie, and I think one other thing that I'm not remembering. The coffee wasn't that good, as it was too weak for my taste, but the wassail was wonderful.
Overall the evening went very well. I made new friends, and I can tell that I'm going to groove to this dealing thing, once I get it down totally. I was sweating remembering the cards, though :)
Tonight I am off to do the same thing, in another hour or two.
I think one of the reasons I like this so much is that I get to make people happy. If I screw up -- as I did a fair amount last night -- all I have to do is toss my players a chip or two, and they're happy. I couldn't do that in Vegas, but in Vegas I would ahve gone through three weeks of blackjack training, not three hours.Tunes: Locust - Master And Servant |
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about last night
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Nov. 17th, 2007 @ 04:09 pm
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Last night I had a really good conversation in my Traumatic Brain Injury chat room. A woman showed up, wanting to get help for her 25 year old son, who suffered a TBI nine years ago. Since then he's been in jail several times, all for stupid petty things.
This kid sounds a lot like I was -- gifted pre-TBI, still gifted afterward, doesn't want to be "retarded", interested in many of the same things I am, very high-functioning, and so on.
I could have easily gone down the road that he's going down with my injury. But I didn't. Now she wants me to help her son. There's only so much I can do, though; there's only so much she can do, since he's his own person and making his own way.
Now, I know these few lines can't convey the entire depth and breadth of the conversation we had. Trust me, though, it got very deep, very quickly. Eventually I put it to her: "if it came down to letting him destroy his life OR seeing the relationship between the two of you destroyed ... which would you choose?"
That is surely the road she's headed down -- if she bails him out of jail yet again, he will just do something stupid again, and the cycle will repeat. What she needs to do is help give him the tools he can use to get himself to a better place. This I never really had; I had help in recovering from my TBI, but I did the majority of the work on my own. I didn't have any resources or support groups to lean on.
*I* did it. Noone else. Me.
Later that evening, I was talking to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rhianwyn about this. She suggested that I become an advocate for TBI folks like me -- do public speaking, tell people about my injury, show them that recovery is possible. Maybe even talk to people bout being careful with their heads -- people in motorcycle classes, for instance.
I have no idea how I'd start that, but it sure sounds interesting and rewarding.
Comments and thoughts are welcomed, as always.Tunes: Black Kites - Lucretia My Reflection (Sisters of Mercy) |
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the book! the book!
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Oct. 1st, 2007 @ 10:17 pm
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I can has the book? I've wanted it for a while.
And now I has the book!
Yay, I gots the book!
I'm a big fan of LifeHacker. As if it were a guilty pleasure, I don't talk about it much. There are lots and lots of lifehacker entries left unread in my news reader (RSS reader). But I'm always on the lookout for any tip or trick that will help me be better organized, more productive, anything that might help me actually do things better and work smarter. I talked about this a while ago with respect to the Getting Things Done thing. That was useful, but it wasn't all I needed.
I have found some pretty useful stuff on lifehacker. I can't recall what, right now, but I have.
And now I have the LifeHacker book! squeeeeeeee
I can tote this thing with me wherever I go, and I am not tied to a computer to use it. I've only read the first chapter, but already there are useful things I've found, such as the hint to start a personal wiki so as to offload the tons of crap that's clogging my brain. I have already started doing that with hastily scrawled scraps of paper (which accumulate), torn-out pages from magazines (ditto), link lists, and so on -- I've even gone so far as to collect lots of the stuff in one notebook, but that book is not easily-searchable or reviewable. It is in my own handwriting, after all.
Man, I'm excited about this. This plus the desire I conceived a week or so ago -- I want to have a real workspace -- have really got me going. I've already started cleaning up, purging old and unneeded stuff, generally making it happen.
And guess what else? It makes me feel good to do this. Now, if only my personal life were as easily whipped into shape ...Tunes: John Stanford - do you feel the same |
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I did it!
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Sep. 9th, 2007 @ 10:19 pm
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I signed up for web hosting.
Finally.
I decided on Surpass, based on kylakae's recommendation. Of the three I was looking at, that was the only one with whom anyone had any personal experience. And she was pretty happy with it. So.
Now I need to wait for the order to be complete, then I'll point the name servers where they need to go, and then I'll get something up there. It'll be a portfolio at first -- that's the first thing going up. It'll help me get graphic design gigs. There'll be more stuff on there later.
So. *deep breath* There.
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when right things are wrong
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Aug. 21st, 2007 @ 06:42 pm
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Why does "doing the right thing" feel so wierd & wrong?
I had a job interview today. Well, not so much a job interview per se, so much as a screening. Yesterday I got a call from a place regarding an application I'd put in for a video game tester. Today I went in, filled out an application, took some aptitude tests (does anyone really use Office 2000 any more?) and a math test. I did very well on all of them; they even said so. I was somewhat surprised to note that I scored 100% correct on the math test.
"This place is actually a temporary employee company," I realised part way through. I did temp work off and on, a couple of years ago. It was okay, but it's pretty much the same thing as contract work, which I've said before that I really don't care for.
Still, it's the right thing to do, so why does the whole thing feel so ... blah? Like ... this is not the direction I want to go. That may be the source of the discomfort. I made it perfectly plain to them that I wanted to do graphic design or game industry stuff, and that I didn't want to ever set foot in a call center again unless it was as a manager or supervisor. They seemed to be okay with both things.
Maybe another source of discomfort was the fact that the last woman who I dealt with there seemed so plastic, so fake.
I dunno. But things are starting to shape up -- getting more bites, more nibbles. I really need to put my portfolio up on the web. I'm having to skip so many opportunities because they say "include link to online portfolio," which I do not have at this time.Tunes: Simon Baker - infant pres. simon baker - plastik |
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Tew's Day
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Jul. 25th, 2007 @ 02:35 am
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(( this was written on Tuesday, but was not posted due to the LJ outage. Glad to hear that everything is ok again.
It was difficult to get out of bed today and get dressed. I still haven't eaten, which is bad for me, I know. But I appear to be profoundly depressed ... not good, either, but to the best of my knowledge and ability, there's very little if anything I can do about that.
I hate days like this, when every least little thing seems to require an effort of will. Even writing this entry needs that effort, but at least at the moment this activity is seeming to take less effort than anything else I might do.
Last week I had a project to work on -- now, not so much. I've been sort of idly thinking, though -- what if I just got involved in a bunch of contests? Writing contests, map making contests, whatever. Right at the moment I can't think of anything else worthwhile that I might be suited for, but I'm sure there's something. Anyone have experience with that sort of thing?
Oh, and yesterday I had a scare and a half. About crapped a kitten, I did. Too bad I can't do the same thing with a bar of gold, eh? Oh well.
That module, right? It was supposed to be uploaded by a certain time. Well, I did so, and then I updated it later as was permitted by the contest rules. Only I didn't understand the system they use for uploading (first time I'd used it). Basically put, the update I uploaded didn't save. I panicked when I checked my upload page and saw there was nothing there.
So a large part of yesterday was me mailing people and sorting things out -- it looks like everything is taken care of, though, and the proper module is in place on the proper page. Said page happens to be right here, though, so if you have Neverwinter Nights (the first one, not NWN2; I don't know if NWN2 is backwards-compatible with NWN1 modules) then feel free to download, play, and let me know what you think. BTW, the link to download the module is about 2/3 of the way down the page, after the big grey table.
In other news -- I would like very much to stop itching & scratching now. kthxluvyewbyebye.Tunes: nothing ... really! |
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It has been a good day ... away from the computer.
Yep. You hear that right. Many hours, no computer. Yes, I'm feeling alright; I needed this!
I've spent so much time parked in this chair at this computer ... I had to get away. So we ate, then went to a local dessert/liqueur bar called La Dolce Vita. Had dark chocolate gelato (kind of like ice cream, only more dense and a lot more Italian), coffee and a shot of Tuaca. Talked to Gina, which was nice; I'd hardly seen her as of late (project). We were making to leave when we heard this band outside -- two guys with guitars and a lot of creativity, really -- who were playing some pretty amazing ambient type music. So we stopped and listened for an hour plus; I drew some (haven't done that in a while!) and got a cd from them.
Upon leaving, we were sorely tempted by the smells of baking goods from Cap'n Quackenbush's pastry house, so we stopped in & got breakfast for tomorrow. Yum.
Earlier today, well, I slept a lot. The past week plus I've been wound like an 8 day clock. I badly needed to rest, because the module is submitted and now there is nothing else I can do to it. Well, I can, I suppose, but it won't be put in the version that's going to be reviewed for the contest. At any rate, there's one more minor frosting-like thing I want to add, and then I'll post it here so anyone who's interested can download and play it.
The rash or whatever it is is getting better. I knew it was stress-related. Unfortunately I couldn't find any Benadryl in the house (as was suggested by roseross in a comment) so it's having to go away on its own, but it does seem to be. Thank god; I was tired of looking like a leper.
My, and I'd better post this. I've had it written for a while, and haven't posted. Oops!
Jul. 23rd, 2007 @ 12:45 am
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Well, I almost feel human again. Yay me!
I am done with that module I was working on. It's missing a cutscene, but I have until 12 midnight tonight to update it. I don't know if I'm going to be able to learn how to do that -- and do it reasonably well -- in the next 7.5 hours. Still, that's what I did with this entire module -- contest was announced 16.May, I discovered it around mid-June, then I had that week's vacation ... so all told I've been working on this for around a month. And the last week especially I've been putting in 10-12 hour days on it.
I sure do hope I get paid for this eventually!
Anyway, I submitted it around 11.30p last night, which was 29 minutes before the deadline. Afterward I had a mixed bag of reactions -- I laughed like a loon, I stared at the wall, I tried to think of other things -- but that barely worked.
I've come out of it relatively sane and unscathed. I do have this weird rash, though -- from the stress, is all I can think; it showed up 2-3 days ago -- where bits of my body are itchy and bumpy. They're almost like bug bits, but I've not been out to get bitten by bugs. And I eat so much garlic that bugs find me rather distasteful. I've even got an itchy bumpy spot on my eyelid ... what's up with that? And my back hurts from all the sitting I've been doing. Damn! Anyone have any recommendations for that? I can't just get up and run around the block a few times, or I would.
Anyway, for the past 17 hours I've been taking a break -- playing Lord of the Rings, sleeping, and so on. I would very much like to not do anything to the module today, but I'm not sure that's going to happen -- I am something of a perfectionist, and whereas the module is as perfect I could make it in such a short time, it's not as perfect as it could be. I just hope it's perfect enough to get me a job at the company I want.
After I'm finished doing -- whatever I'm going to do to it -- I will post it up so that those of you with NeverWinter Nights can play the damn thing. I recall that a few of you offered to playtest it for me, and I regret that I didn't have it ready in time for that sort of thing. But thank you for the offers regardless.
Jul. 21st, 2007 @ 04:50 pm
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How am I supposed to work on this fucking project when at the same time I have to battle the voices that tell me I can't do this?
My energy is divided, and it needs to be all on this. I have two days left.
I get on a roll, and then *wham* there are the voices again.
I can do this, I know I can do this. The closer I get to the end the stronger the voices become.
Jul. 18th, 2007 @ 07:05 pm
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Alright, who among you knows anything about NeverWinter Nights?
I'm not expecting many responses, since I don't think I have many gamers in my readership. But you never know.
Anyway, the reason I ask is because I am starting to get into it ... out of necessity.
BioWare -- the highly regarded game studio that put out this game and many other very good roleplaying games, like Jade Empire (I just finished it day before yesterday), Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (I and II), and many others -- BioWare has a studio in Austin.
After leaving Origin Systems in 1991, I've always wanted to return to the game development industry. I feel I could be happy there, whether as an artist, level designer, whatever. That's what I did for Origin. I've tried to get back into it, off and on, with no success. Well, maybe now the time is right.
Oh, and if you follow the link in the above paragraph, they list a lot of people who used to work at Origin (they're now gone, subsumed into game giant Electronic Arts). About half those names are familiar to me.
Remember Carol, that woman of not inconsiderable psychic ability? She's cropping up a lot in my life. She saw me "making things happen in the Entertainment industry" ... hello, games!
Oh, Neverwinter Nights. That's how I got started with this entry. I finished Jade Empire, as I mentioned, and I wanted more. So I went to BioWare's site for the game, and I just happened to notice the employment link. Then the Austin Studio. Then the game designer position. And in order to show your design chops, they want you to make a small level, using the NeverWinter Nights game toolset. Which at this moment, I know next to nothing about.
But I picked up a copy of the game yesterday, and I'm diving in.
Playing games as research for a job position. Who'da thunk it?
Jun. 7th, 2007 @ 04:10 pm
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So yeah, more about my old company. And this should be it, I reckon.
I just got off the phone with Rob, the VP of HR at the company I used to work for. Regardless of the meeting we had, regardless of the mitigating circumstances that I presented, they are not changing a damn thing. I would say a brain injury would be pretty mitigating, wouldn't you? I'm not getting that job or any other job back, and they're not going to amend the record as to the reason I was terminated. So in their eyes I am still a thief.
Tell me, do thieves offer to pay back what they've taken? Do thieves offer to buy stock in the company that they've wronged? Do thieves let their supervisors know beforehand that they might be taking things inadvertently?
I thought not.
At least I can now pretty much close the book on this chapter -- the not-knowing was getting to me. I feel a strange sort of relief since now I know. It's bad news, to be sure, but at least it's news. Thankfully, Texas law prohibits them from saying anything other than "yes, he worked here from this date to this date." But "terminated for theft" doesn't look good on one's application for unemployment.
Onward and upward!
Jun. 4th, 2007 @ 04:01 pm
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As you know, I'm looking for a job. Again. And it's become rather apparent to me that I'm quite unhappy in my current field of work, which is Information Technology. I don't mind working with computers so much, but may the goddess strike me dead if I ever set foot in another call center again as anything less than a manager. Customer service? right out. I'll never do that again either. I was so desperately unhappy with those fields.
One of my close friends who has a not inconsiderable amount of psychic ability says that she sees me getting into the "back end of the entertainment industry" (I am aware of the verbal gaffe, thankyouverymuch). That is to say, video production, audio engineer, stage management, that sort of thing. Only I have no idea how to do this, or where to start. From what I hear, Austin is a pretty groovy town for that sort of thing, what with the University of Texas, independent film, and so on. But -- no idea.
Does anyone have any ideas about or experience in this area? I need some guidance; I have no idea where to turn.
Over the past week or two, I've pretty much gotten over the loss of my last job. I've gone through Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance; right now I'm bouncing between the latter two, most often. But I'm loath to start the search process again, because in the middle of this month I'll be going to Washington state to see my dad. We'll be gone for a week or so. I'm doing this with the help of Uncle Sam's tax refund; this was scheduled and approved before I lost my job. We tried to cancel the tickets when that happened, but they would have kept over half of the cost of the tickets -- might as well go, right?
I've been loath to start the job search process because of that. If I got an interview while in Washington, that wouldn't be any good, and I wouldn't be able to take a vacation from a job that I just got. So! Untenable situation.
We were going to try and get me a laptop for the trip because so much of my life is spent on-line. Doesn't look like that's going to happen, though. I don't suppose you have a spare one lying about, do you? heh! *wink*
Jun. 1st, 2007 @ 05:26 pm
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I'm getting ready to go on a photo shoot -- well, I won't be the one behind the camera, but rather I'll be operating Photoshop to do printing right there on site. This kind of fell in my lap after my employment with the previous company ended.
It's a part-time gig. The photographer himself has a small company -- just him and his wife -- and a fulltime job that he's not ready or willing to let go of yet. So it's "weekend money," more than anything else.
But it's something, hey? And I am working with Photoshop, in whatever limited way, which is what I've wanted to do for a long time. At the moment it's not as ... creative as I'd like, but there's no telling where this might go. The owner and his wife both seem to really like me, so I'm sure they'd be open to suggestions and so on.
It's nice to be making money again, even if it's only a little.
What do you do for a living?
May. 19th, 2007 @ 08:26 am
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Since I am tired of the miasma that my life has become, without me knowing where to start on anything, I have started with the Getting Things Done school of organization. I've bought the book, and am about a third of the way through it. It has already started affecting my life in small but positive ways.
In the book, David Allen talks about "work" being a not-very clearly defined activity, especially in this age of "knowledge workers" -- basically people who sit in front of a computer and do things, like myself. This is one of the major reasons I've started with the GTD methodology.
It all started when I read an article about it on lifehacker.com, which is a site about productivity and generally doing things better. For geeks.
Anyway, I know my history with self-improvement things -- I start off like gangbusters, keep it going for a while, and then they seem to fall by the wayside. Here's hoping that I have the intestinal fortitude to keep this going.
So what are some of your ways of Getting Things Done? Let's hear some of your productivity tips.
Oh, and there's lots more information about Getting Things Done to be had.
May. 18th, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
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This past Monday I had a meeting with the W company's Vice President of Human Resources -- basically what I wanted to do was present my side of the story, as I outlined in my immediately previous post.
It went about as well as I could expect. I went armed with a two page outline of what happened and the backstory involved. I had everything I wanted to present. He listened intently, and asked some questions so as to better understand.
That was about it. He didn't make any promises to me, aside from that he would investigate and get back with me later in the week. He did ask me if I wanted my job back, and I said no, I wanted that other job that I had interviewed for. 'struth -- I've made no bones about how burned out I was getting, and part of me has to wonder if this was just something elaborate that my subconscious cooked up so I could sabotage myself.
I have a long and storied history of doing that very thing.
Anyway, I have not yet heard from him. We'll see what happens, I suppose.
Oh -- and this represents me stepping outside the box-of-comfort ... I don't often stand up for myself. I don't often have to, but somewhere along the way I learned that standing up for myself was somehow a bad thing.
Everyone's learning, hey?
May. 18th, 2007 @ 02:41 am
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well, okay. Here's the thing. i was going to make a voice post about this but I don't have the number in my cel.
So this is some 5 hours after tech fact. But.
I just got fired.
From my job of over a year and a half. The longest job I've ever had.
For stealing.
What the fuck?
What the fuck is that shit?
We have two systems -- one for getting on the phone, the other for getting paid. Apparently I logged out of the phone and then not out of the getting paid system. So over a period of -- 3 weeks? Or so? I "stole" some 14 hours.
I don't remember the exact figures. Mostly because I'm at least half drunk.
More later. Maybe.
May. 7th, 2007 @ 08:09 pm
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