June 23, 2003
by Julie • Work
Sheesh. At the rate I’ve been bouncing through employers this year, you’d think I was flighty or something. :) With luck, this one will last. The whole first day jitters thing is so much like the first day of school… which I was never too fond of anyway. But, I think I like this place. [...]
June 21, 2003
by Julie • Work
Having had only limited success freelancing, and having not one but two bosses go flakey on me, I decided that it was time to find something a little more solid with which to pay the rent. I did find a job, but I also found some other things… For the three weeks I’m sending out [...]
April 28, 2003
Today, I needed to have a talk with one of my bosses. (I have three jobs, equalling three bosses, if I count myself as my self-employed boss, which I do.) Y’see, he’s a very smart, fairly nice guy (and I use the words “nice guy” with reason, as will be explained later) who has been [...]
April 18, 2003
Y’know, when a client sends something “on disk”, you’d think by now it would be a simple affair. Especially when it’s a client you’ve worked with for several years and have trained assiduously in the arcane science of “how to send your developer files she can use”. So, when I get the nice, hefty package [...]
April 11, 2003
Today I got one monster freehand file (we’re talking roughly 100 inches tall and wide) that supposedly contained about four display panels to be tweaked, color matched, and printed. All well and good, but there were no guides or clues telling me how (or if) it should be cut apart. (And seeing as our printer [...]