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# 16 19-07-2003 , 10:43 PM

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I probably have the weirdest situation around user added image

I'm employed as a web designer-developer/graphic designer/2d-3d artist & animator
for a local inflatable company that makes those inflatable rides hat kids get in and bounce around in.

My boss is a Jahovas Witness, and brings his "religion" (cult) to work, (illegal in the US btw), and will argue with you about anything and everything like a sniveling little baby untill he gets his way, but he conveniently forgets it when it all blows up in his face, and things go wrong, hat way he can blame you for it.

His brothers are all equal owners, and they hate him as much as we do, PLUS, he is a MAJOR Mac nut.
He even has a framed magazine picture of Steve Jobs on his office wall. (no joke)

...I think he wanks off to it at night.... hehe... seriously...

My only sanity comes from my freelance web design biz.
Web design is pretty much dead in this part of town, so I mainly have clients from out-of-state.

All the while, I'm trying to gather time to work on my reel, moderate for SM, and do a few vid tuts for SM all at the same time...

Whew...

My gf and I are moving to NY city next june, and that is going to ROCK, because that is going to change everything for both of us..

More, and better jobs for me, and school for her user added image

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Blue Sky VFX here I come!
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Israel "Izzy" Long
Motion and Title Design for Broadcast-Film-DS
izzylong.com

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# 17 19-07-2003 , 11:08 PM

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Blue sky.. If you get in there Rage tell them about me hehehehe...

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination, knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world. (Albert Einstein)

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# 18 19-07-2003 , 11:14 PM

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Don't mean to burst your bubble about NYC, bud, but while it is fun and there ARE jobs, it's a pretty dead market here as well. You're apt to find more freelance here but if you're looking for FT...good luck. I seem to be on the work for siz months, collect unemployment for six months, rinse, repeat....you get the idea. On a good note though, I just had a an interview last week with a killer small shop in SoHo...I turned out to be in the top 5 out of like 75 hopefuls but didn't get the FT gig. They still want me for freelance though so that's good. They have some really high-end clients.

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# 19 20-07-2003 , 06:19 AM

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Uhhhhhh, no job here......BooHoo.........Im so poor.......Spare some change anyone???

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# 20 20-07-2003 , 06:34 AM

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Yeah, there isn't much of a call for poo flingin' monkey. Try mexico user added image

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# 21 20-07-2003 , 06:38 AM

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Good luck Rage. I can't stand religious freaks. Religion if you do want to believe in should be a personal and private thing.
So you will be leaving your current job. Does your boss know yet? How did he take it?

grrrr

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# 22 20-07-2003 , 07:17 AM

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That's the best part of the state I live in.

The labor law states that all jobholders are called "at-will" employees, meaning that I can leave at anytime, without notice user added image

So, when I find another job, I'm outta there asap user added image

hehe..

Screw him. None of my work done there is even close to relevant to my portfolio, so no loss there.

Israel "Izzy" Long
Motion and Title Design for Broadcast-Film-DS
izzylong.com

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# 23 20-07-2003 , 06:36 PM

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Hey Rage, I'm in the same boat. All my work at my current employer is nothing I would want to put in my portfolio. Stinks big time too, because I have very little time to work at home on stuff.

As far as you boss goes, that's harassment. Period. Report him to the Better Business Bureu, because he shouldn't be like that. I'm a Christian, but that doesn't mean I can force my opinion on anyone, especially at work. It's people like that (Bible Thumpers) that give Christians bad reputations. Ask him what he thinks of Christ's commandment, " Have love for one another." That doesn't sound like something he has for you.

And as far as the Mac stuff goes... a picture of Steve Jobs! HAHAHAHA.... Does your boss know that Steve helped name the Unix part of OS X Darwin? I bet he won't believe it. LOL

Ah well, back to the salt mines for me!

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# 24 20-07-2003 , 09:23 PM

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Crossed the line there...

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# 25 21-07-2003 , 12:39 AM

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About me...

Heh.. I'm employed in Minolta Norway as a computer/xerox-machine repair guy.

Hooking up print-servers and scanning utilities for our customers.
On a average day, I'll repair 3 or 4 mecanical faults on xerox-machines, rekonfigure 1 print-server and installing 1 new xerox-machine.

The new stuff is actually quite fancy. I work with tabloid/A3 color machines that produce 20+ color pages per minute, and are capable of scanning 50+ page color documents straight into PDF and Black/White machines that handle from 30 to 70 pages per minute and can scan 200+ B/W pages.

As my employer found out I've got a natural talent for learning network configuration and instalation of our products, I get most of those jobs, and not so many "dust-cleaning" jobs any more. The figures stated earlier on represents what I did as a rookie.

Now I'm in the Royal Norwegian Navy. Have been for 6 monts, and have 6 months to go.
All norwegian "men" have to do one year in the armed forces as a part of our defence politics.
The reason I stated "men" is that over 60% of those who should go into the army, finds a petty excuse of some sort (bad back, bad lungs, alergic to something, asthma(??) or other psycologigal or physical problems). Lazy bastards with no patriotic feelings!

Apart from that, I spend most of my spare time looking into the computer, making 3D Gfx, gaming and making music.

-DX-

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# 26 21-07-2003 , 01:12 AM

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Self employed here, but not in the 3D field. I masquerade as a software designer to feed the wife and kid.
I play with Maya because I hope to be in the game developer field sometime before I get too old user added image

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