Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

[Set Harth]

Everybody feels like shit sometimes. Everybody looks like shit sometimes. If you smell like shit, then you're in trouble.

It's even better in the original Vulcan.

 

[Celystial]

That might just be the longest poem I ever wrote.

 

[vfxart]

^ @vfxart , the "support" emoji seems somewhat inadequate here. I'm so sorry you're in this situation. I hope things can turn around for you.

Unfortunately for all of us, I fear that with the way things are going, stories like this are just going to get more and more common.

Thank you. There's hardly any work out there now, for my specialties. Companies may list jobs, but at times it's only to look good for investors; there's no actual position to fill. All of the hoop-jumping still happens, though. Several hundreds of of applicants for one spot is not uncommon. One I went after had over 1k. At least I was in the top 25 and considered, but the company folded, not getting the financing it had hoped for.

I know a lot of folks are struggling and then some across trades and arts. And we face the AI morons who think 'ideas' are the thing. Brutal.

Training to make a lateral move, that means time and money, and I'm out of each. And, at 56, certain barriers are massive.

I spent most of my career helping millionaires make more, with naught to show for it all after the three years now. I can only do what I know though, so back to it... words and images won't create themselves...

Thanks again Avro.

 

[Celystial]

A briefing sounds like when everyone on the ship puts on underwear.

(...and yes, I know it's like...military/starfleet for board meeting.)

 

[The Friendly Jewish Ghost]

A briefing sounds like when everyone on the ship puts on underwear.

That reminds me of an old joke: Only a lawyer could write a 5,000-word document and call it a brief.

In other news, I was surfing the internet and came across this item. It seems Smucker's is suing Trader Joe's over the design and packaging of their frozen peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches.

My first thought was, frozen peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches? For real? Who the hell buys these? It takes less than a minute to grab two slices of a loaf of bread, spread peanut butter on one and jelly on the other, and slap them together. Not to mention the cost is probably less than one-tenth of what you'd pay for one of these prefab things. How fucking lazy are people these days, anyway? What's next -- frozen toast?

 

[Azathoth Unbound]

What's next -- frozen toast?

Dehydrated water - just add water.

 

[Birb-of-Prey]

I think I might be content in my drawing ability being just enough to get an idea onto paper with sufficient clarity for superior artists to do commissioned work from.

 

[Celystial]

I think sleep might be a lost cause.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

That reminds me of an old joke: Only a lawyer could write a 5,000-word document and call it a brief.

In other news, I was surfing the internet and came across this item. It seems Smucker's is suing Trader Joe's over the design and packaging of their frozen peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches.

My first thought was, frozen peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches? For real? Who the hell buys these? It takes less than a minute to grab two slices of a loaf of bread, spread peanut butter on one and jelly on the other, and slap them together. Not to mention the cost is probably less than one-tenth of what you'd pay for one of these prefab things. How fucking lazy are people these days, anyway? What's next -- frozen toast?

A quick Google search shows that there are six varieties of frozen toast available in the freezer section at your local supermarket.

 

[Celystial]

...now if my head would stop hurting, I'd be set.