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27 February 2007

LIFECHANGE ! : Check out my new "desk" ! After ten years wasting away in cubicles, stressed to the max, overwhelmed with more work than a person can do, never able to leave it behind at the end of the day... I chucked it all. Went to work in the warehouse. Moving heavy objects (with or w/o a forklift), fixing and building things, etc. OMG BUNNY! I HAVE A BRAIN AGAIN! I CAN WRITE AND DO ART AND BIKE AND, WELL, ANYTHING I WANT AFTER WORK! "Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles..."→[More:]

GAWD:

-It ain't forever anyway.
-I'm losing 2#/week before exercising.
-I feel great.
-It took me two weeks to stop feeling high from the stress falling off my shoulders like two tons of weight.
-WHEN I FINISH A JOB, I CAN SEE IT'S DONE. TOUCH IT AND FEEL THAT IT'S DONE. WALK AWAY FROM IT AND LEAVE IT BEHIND.
-I CAN FINALLY DIG INTO MY ART AND WRITING AND ANIMAL ACTIVISM.
-The company was in the process of becoming a big corporation and, like most businesses, putting the screws to the desk people anyway.
-I have my sense of reality back now that I'm not lost in 2-D cyberspace all day.

The list just goes on and on.

And it's fun to go vroom-vroom on the towmotor, LOL.

post by: shane at: 19:56 | 21 comments

Shane, congrats! It's always nice to leave work at work. It sounds like a win-win to me. Good for you!

posted by LoriFLA 27 February | 20:16

Rock on, Shane, congrats!! I got choked up just reading that. Nothing but good can come of it, I'm completely sure of it!!! Yay!!!

posted by Sil 27 February | 20:35

Congrats! I envy the thought of getting out of the knowledge-work ghetto, although I have no manual or mechanical skills so I have no idea what else I could do.

Post a picture of you going vroom.

posted by matildaben 27 February | 20:44

Good for you!!!! Congrats!!! Hell, I feel happier just listening to you!

posted by redvixen 27 February | 20:53

That's wonderful, Shane!

posted by Specklet 27 February | 21:33

Congrats, shane! You sound sooo happy!

posted by deborah 27 February | 22:17

I had heard stories of such things, but always assumed they were myths. So... this stuff REALLY happens?

Whoa. You rock.

posted by Doohickie 27 February | 22:35

Good for you, Shane!

posted by jrossi4r 27 February | 22:42

:-)

(Thanks!)

posted by shane 27 February | 23:44

Congrats, shane, that's excellent news. Thanks for showing some of us (well, me anyway) that good things like this can happen.

posted by GeckoDundee 27 February | 23:53

Hm, maybe that's what I should do. Especially as regards my music and activism! I am a not-strong girly person though, what sort of jobs should I do? I so don't want to do retail.

posted by By the Grace of God 28 February | 04:00

Congratulations Shane! Did you see the forklift safety video yet?

posted by misteraitch 28 February | 04:42

Very Cool.

Very, Very Cool.

Maybe that's what I need. When you dig a ditch, you can see that there is a ditch there. You dug it. It has been dug.

Ditch. Dug. Done.

posted by eriko 28 February | 07:09

When you dig a ditch, you can see that there is a ditch there. You dug it. It has been dug.

Ditch. Dug. Done.

Sheer poetry!

I remember reading a comic book in the '80s. There was a former super-villain who had given it up for a normal life. Old teammates tried to hook him back in. "I can always dig ditches," he said. That impressed me. Guess it was a prophecy. Not that I'm a super-villain. I still aspire to that. And maybe a brief stint as a cab driver.
;-)

I think I saw that, misteraitch, but as soon as I get home I'll check it out! I'm borrowing time from the forklift for a brief 'Net spat here.

Thanks, folks!

BtGoG, I'll try to think of a career for you, LOL. It's not easy. I tried for years. Guess what? Barista, travel agent, data entry, locksmith, etc etc etc... they all left me braindead, LOL.

posted by shane 28 February | 08:50

Shane, you've got a tape measurer with your name on it! The height of luxury!

posted by muddgirl 28 February | 10:41

Some of the most enjoyable work experiences I can recall were spent under the hot midwest sun working construction, replacing damaged sidewalk and street slabs and driving a loaded backhoe through traffic like a madman... something about the environment, the open air, the sense of completion... it's simply unparalleled.

I'm glad you found something more in-tune with your desires, shane - best wishes in your new endeavors.

posted by appidydafoo 28 February | 15:52

Locksmith? Do you still have the tools? Could i get a set?
Purely more magic tricks and research, of course.
And to figure out an alternate solution to a horrifying dream i've been avoiding.
Don't let your brain catch fire from excessive creativity.

posted by ethylene 28 February | 16:01

I'll gladly teach you to pick locks, eth. It's simple. SIMPLE. I've taught people in fifteen minutes before.

I'll e-mail a diagram and tell you where to order the two small, simple tools you need.

Car opening isn't what it used to be, but I still have better tools than slimjims. I can't even find my lockpicks anymore, as the novelty has worn off, but I've been thinking of ordering a new set, just in case.

Oh, and, the first thing in the official locksmithing manual is this: Don't go around telling your friends how easy it is to pick locks.
;-)

Of course, if a lock is pickproofed (most easily with a pin or pin that is spindle- or mushroom-shaped instead of simply cylindrical), you could pick at it for a hundred years and it might pop open a couple or a few times. If you're lucky.

posted by shane 28 February | 16:06

...most easily with a pin or pin...

That shd be pin or pins...

posted by shane 28 February | 16:07

i know the very basic basics, but i suppose locksmithing is going down the tubes so it's not a good field to wander into...
Do you get to be online at work?

posted by ethylene 28 February | 16:20

Do you get to be online at work?

aaagh. only 3 or four times a day for brief stints.

posted by shane 28 February | 20:49

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