Bloggy blog blog. Bloggity bloggy blog blog. Blog. I'm rusty at this. It may take a while before the engine turns over.

I feel like I've only got two settings lately: antsy or exhausted. Where's that sweet spot in the middle where I'm chilled out and productive?

- J

Step right up

"Out practicing your freak-shots?"
-Tim, to me, yesterday, when I was outside practicing my freak-shots.

My Shots
The "Look Ma, No Hands"
-Shoot the ball without use of hands (typically by holding it with the wrists)
The "Gotta Have My Hops"
-Layup: while in the air, ball passes through legs and is then shot with the off-hand
The "Thumbscrews"
-Shoot ball holding it only with the thumbs
The "Over-Board"
-Shoot ball from behind backboard
The "Carnival"
-Shoot the ball while your friend wobbles the hoop back and forth
The "Skee-Ball"
-Shoot underhanded, one hand

Still in Development
The "Blind Faith"
-Shoot ball facing backwards
The "Cliffhanger"
-Shoot with both feet touching base of pole, one-handed, off-hand
The "Superboy Punch"
-Shoot by punching ball (but from a closer range than the "Superman Punch")

-J

5/2/11

7 months being married.  It's certainly the best 7-month stretch I've had.  I love being married.  It's great on so many levels.
I heard on the news this morning that Osama Bin Laden was killed by U.S. Troops.  It was at the end of a whole report section on the recent sports matches.  Basketball, hockey, baseball, p.s. Osama.  It was right as I pulled up to work and it was sort of surreal.  Of course, this is a person I have never met, and have only ever heard news of.  But the only way my life has been really impacted by him is that airplane rides are much less convenient for me now.  I hope it isn't disrespectful not to pretend otherwise, but it's true.  I'm sure I would feel very differently if a friend or relative had been killed in an Al Qaida attack, but I'm completely removed and it's abstract.

-J

4/28/11

It occurred to me that the thought pattern which elevates the love of God to the prime virtue is often argued as "I couldn't worship a God who wasn't [loving/compassionate/forgiving/let's-be-honest:-tolarant-of-me-just-the-way-I-am].  What it REALLY is, though, is an unwillingness to believe that our sin is really THAT BAD.  That it's so bad that it separates us from God, and that there are real actual consequences for our actions taken against God.  We hate that.  As kids, we don't want our actions to have consequences, and I don't think that inner desire for no personal accountablility ever goes away.  Even in my dreams when I have done something bad, I think "Oh man... how am I going to escape the consequences?"  An All-Love God of course laughs away our childish follies because on the scale of universal time they have no comparative significance.  Except Jesus teaches that God 1) knows us intimately and 2) exists apart from time.  Our sin is always before God.  He does not forget, and if he forgives a real crime he is not just and therefore not perfect and worthy of all worship and praise.  He would not be Himself.  The All-Love God is a human-created myth that allows people to not change, and not take personal responsability
I have sin?  And it's real, and it's so bad that if I don't accept the sacrifice of Christ in my place, I will be separated from God forever?  That doesn't sound like it would be pleasant to believe.

-J

4/19/11: Day 2

Still so good.  Costco came so I had a ham and swiss toasted sandwich.  There's chocolate milk too, but it hasn't been agreeing with me lately so I should probably leave it alone.  Okay, back to it.
I made it to round 2 of the character battle.  The due-date is, obnoxiously, Easter.  We'll have to see how this will come together.

-J

4/18/11 Part 2

So far: still so good (+ 2 ibprofin and my mom bought me a good lunch).

-J

4/18/11 Part 1

So far: so good. =)

-J

4/15/11

I have to remind myself that just because something is super awkward, it doen's necessarily mean that it's my fault that it's awkward.  Awkwardness is an inseperable element of some processes.
Listeing to KEXP on the radio at my desk at work is much kinder to my brain than listening to the sports radio playing across the room.  Even if they're playing a song I don't like, or one that prompts a questionable remark from a coworker, it's still much better than endlessly hearing the loops of people who are paid to professionally offer opinions on things that are totally abstract and without importance.

-J

4/13/11

It's a day.  I'm almost at twenty four hours for the week already, which is good.  Mostly there's just a lot competing for my attention.  I've been diverted onto a special project today, which is enjoyable but I have to step back mentally from my other usual obligations.  It's easy to start freaking out going "aaaa, how is everything going to get done?", but in truth all I have to be concerned with is my little area.  The rest isn't my worry.  Emotionally I've taken too much ownership of things, so I'm distressed if the manpower calculation doesn't seem to add up.  That's a good recipe for burning out, though.  This isn't my company or department, and I just need to work honestly wherever they happen to want me that day / hour / minute / second / you get the idea.

-J

4/12/11

Feeling down today, but I'm hard-pressed to say exactly why.  Listeing to KEXP felt demoralizing, like i'm too old to start anything worthwhile musically.  I feel like I've squandered my youth in fleeting pleasures and distractions, and I wish I'd spent all that time playing videogames on playing some sort of instrument instead.  I want to be a part of a musical collaberation of artists, but I feel like my hands are empty.  I have nothing to offer anyone serious.

-J

4/8/11

Dustin preached that Christians shouldn't keep secrets, which seems biblical to me.  In our show last night, Cora fell for an old trick of the devil: "I'm lying, but it's for the sake of someone else."  You can't benefit someone by sinning against them.  Maybe there's a scandal - that's not your concern.  Maybe there's consequences - but better from men than from God.

Struggling with ideas of career always stresses me out; I always forget how much.  The corporate world has always seemed like sort of a country club to me in the way they guard the gates.  "We'd like to have you in for an interview."  "Great!"  "The interview will be in Russian."  "Um... is fluency necessary for the job?"  "No."  "Will I use Russian in any way or deal with Russians?"  "No."  "O...kay..."
If you don't know the language, what to say, what not to say, what to lie about, how not to answer trick questions, don't bother wasting your time or theirs.

-J

Posting

remains difficult to maintain, but hey - nothing easy is worth struggling for, right?  Of course, if it's easy, and you're still struggling, that raises some other valid questions.  In any case, I shall persevere as best I'm able, and my goal shall be a better average over time.  It's never how you do in any one game - the finals are populated with people who were strong over a season.  Sports analogies.  Woo.
It's Friday.  It's a good day.  Time to get back to it.

- J

Packaging

I still don't feel like Mars Hill has done a fab job in packaging redemption groups as anything other than Christian rehab.  Claiming that there were "no wrong answers" on the prepare / enrich assessment was somewhat insulting, and I can't help but feel that our instruction to attend RD was a direct result of giving some "wrong" replies on key questions.
If you're going to ask someone to give you the same evening every week without fail for three months, I feel like more notice than ten days would be polite.  They're not doing themselves any favors on the outside or on the inside of the RD experience so far.

- J

Praise

I'm really hungry for praise.  I love being told "good job".  I don't know if that is universal to the human experience, but when I create something that people like it makes me feel so good.  A moderator finally approved my post on the forums where I uploaded my tournament entry song, and someone commented that they liked it.  I was really nervous for some reason, worried that people would think it was lame, so that one comment has been making me smile all morning.  I wrote a song, and a guy listened to it and thought it was funny. =)
Maybe there's a lesson about "fear of man" in there somewhere.  Probably.

- J

3/24/11

I've had a lot of opportunity to show grace lately.  Between work, answering calls, and now a thorn-in-my-side player in the email game I'm running, "let all that you do be done in love" is being matured in me.

-J

3/21/11

Time to lead courageously.

- J

3/16/11

Listening to contemporary hiphop, the image that strikes me most poignantly is the void in the lives of a lot of young men where a father should be.  There is a generation growing up with no concept of what manhood is, and so culture has stepped in to fill the gap.  Naturally, someone with a blank slate is going to gravitate to that which seems most externally appealing, since there's no internal substance to function as a guide. So "manhood" becomes being feared, being considered dangerous, getting away with things that other are arrested for, making money, the ability to have sex whenever you want with anyone you want, being envied, desired, intimidating, having a lot of - naturally - external status indicators.  Because when you are informed by only that which you can observe, observation becomes a necessary element.  It's really sad.
Ancient cultures with their temple prostitutes and child sacrifice to Baal were so backward.  Now lets go to the club to have an experience, hook up with some girl there I've never met before, have a one-nighter, and if she gets pregnant we can abort it because otherwise that would cost a lot of money.
It's kind of frightening how contemporary the bible is.

- J

3/15/11

I remembered to write yesterday while at work, but my breaks were very irregular so it didn't line up.  A shrug.  I think Jimmy's advice was good - be intentional, but don't kill yourself over self-imposed legalism.  Our heart is changed, our desires and habits are changed through the Holy Spirit and not by some amazing willpower and work of our own.
So I'm writing now.

- J

3/11/11

I still like Obama.  He's not perfect, and above that he's a politician, but he is intelligent, well-spoken, reasonable, and he tends to make a lot of sense.  The blind clenched-fist hate towards him is baffling to me, and I have a hard time believing that it is simply grounded in pure political disagreement.

-J

3/10/11 Part 2

A coworker was watching some TV during my break, and it was pleasantly obvious that in the last year and a half of not having network access, I've missed no quality content whatsoever.

-J

3/10/11

No, I did that thing again where I did a lot of other stuff that seemed important at the time and then ran out of time to write on my break!  Well, I'll just have to come back later.

- J

3/9/11

I heart you too.

- J

3/7/11

I read some Revelation today.  It was good.  It was a good start.  It's hard not to talk about every call after I get it.  I feel like i'm sort of a natural mental networker.  Any idea I have, I want to get it out into space as quickly as possible so I can bounce it off other people and triangulate my own position.  Basically it's like echolocation, only instead of finding bugs I'm trying to figure out if I'm crazy all the time.
My boss' boss told me in no uncertain terms how he would like a thing done, this was on Friday.  Today, I related it to my boss to see how the thing should be done, and he told me that we should do the exact opposite.  I re-realize that this is not how I process instruction from authority.  If I am told "do this thing", then unless it's immoral I will do it and not really question the reasoning.  I figure that feedback and analysis isn't really what I was hired for.  But then, it is sort of what he was hired for, so I shouldn't judge that.  He's responsible for himself and his process.  I'm responsible for me.

- J

3/4/11

Mm.  My knees hurt.  Retrieving cards is not kind to me lately.  Hopefully there will be a lot of sitting to do today.  ECCC doesn't worry me, since walking seems to be no trouble.  It's constant standing in one place that's the trouble - when my knees tend to lock and overextend a little.  In the grand scheme, I'm doing well.  I don't have any serious complaints and it's not like i'm crippled or can't get around.  I just feel young to be dealing with a problem like this, and more than that I feel frustrated that going to see a physical therapist is a luxury that I really can't afford.  Because only rich people or people with the right jobs should be well.  Yay capitalism.

Depressing post is depressing.  But I'm actually in pretty high spirits.

- J

3/3/11

Reading the bible during my first break was a good idea.  1 Cor 13 + 14.  You tell 'em, Paul.  You tell the world.

I feel like I'm doing well at work.  Jeff and Geoff are both bringing things to me and saying "please handle this, 'cuz you're the guy who can do that".  It's a good feeling; I like being that guy.  Jeff was mentioning something about AFLAC yesterday, so I should look into that to see what it's all about.  Other than the duck, I got nuthin'.

Best album-openers (as inspired by KEXP)

Radiohead - Airbag (OK Computer)
Pela - Lost to the Lonesome (Anytown Graffiti)
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name (The Joshua Tree)
And a million others.

- J

3/2/11

It's actually kind of nice out!  I was just out.  And it was kind of nice.  I saw it.
I totally do not feel like a person who has been married for almost half a year.  If you shook me suddenly and said "Wake up, Jeremy!  We just had our wedding a week ago and it was great by the way, but the point being that it's great to be here with you now that we have recently returned from our honeymoon!" I would not at all be shocked and frazzled.  In fact I would feel as if things were accurate and comprehensible.  But five months.... that is as many months as it is possible to count using only one hand.  Any more months than this, and additional counting resources will need to be engaged.
It's still good.  I still like it.  I feel like I have junk, and that it is not-at-all together.  We need to hang pictures.  I think that will help a lot.

I love you.

- J

3/1/11

I'm watching the YouTube highlights of the 2011 slam dunk contest at the NBA all-star game in Vegas.  Maybe it's something built into my Y chromosome, but I just like sports.  I like visceral physical engagement, I like competition.  I like a challenge, and overcoming it.  There's another track running, though, and it's a desire for fairness.  I want the playing field to be level.  In baseball, where there is no salary cap, six of the seven highest-payed players are on one team.  That never sits right with me.  But I wonder if parity is an illusion alltogether.  Every team has a different talent level of ownership, direction, vision, strategy, chemistry, geographic appeal... LeBron James went to Florida arguably because no other good player wanted to join him in Cleveland.  Without having some bizarre sports version of communism, professional sports teams will never really be on even footing.  And if they were, we wouldn't get amazing records like Jordan's Bulls or Brady's Patriots.  Every team would be .500 and no one would watch.
At the heart, I like the contest.  All the attempts to put rules around it and make it "fair" are well-intentioned, but inevitably flawed.  So I try to just enjoy the moments of great personal skill and shrug off the rest.

- J

2/28/11

Dana's back, which is nice since it gives me some phone backup.  It's still tough to take restful breaks since I'm effectively on-call at all times.  System issues this morning gave me enough time to knock together another shelf which was good, for the space it cleared out if nothing else.
I want to start tracking some of our actual monthly expenses - groceries, gas, restaurant - on our google doc to see what we're actually looking like.  I think the whiteboard is good day-to-day, and we can punch it in at the end of each month to archive it.
The impulsive part of my brain wants to get a Wii, and start working out with the Wii Boxing minigame that they bundle with it.

- J

2/25/11

It's a slow day, but a slow Friday is better than a quick Monday.  I'll be ordering the food from Costco today, but due to the nature of the handoff, it won't be much different from last week.  In my head I've been running through disobedient-child scenarios, and in my imagination I'm not a very good parent.  Mostly an emotionless disciplinarian.
-interrupted by phone call-
I'm glad my appetite is starting to come back, but it always seems coupled with a bit of an "ick" feeling.  Like, "I'm hungry........... gross."
Okay, time to get back to it.  Gotta change a bulb and order some food and find out what's up with G.M. Jeff's schedule.  Here I go!  Raaaaa.

- J

2/24/11

Taking calls on my paid breaks is also disrupting the consistency of my writing and bible-reading.  I think i may have to develop a new strategy.  Adaptability within responsability shold be the goal of the mature Christian man, though.

- J

2/23/11

The internet does indeed go on forever.  You are wise, my totally hot wife.  Whatever there is to do online, it can wait.  It can wait for pretty much everything.  The internet takes priority over very few things... maybe even nothing.  Its lure is its ease of use.  Sure it's not important, but it's so easy to do that not-important stuff!
Sigh.
Path-of-least-resistance is still a strong argument to my brain.

- J

2/18/11

I don't feel like I've been leading terribly well since we've gotten married.  I do okay in the small-scale day-to-day stuff, but larger vision execution has thus far not been a strength.  Switching to a primarily cash-based budget system needs to become a reality not simply for its practicality, but for it's consequential effect on casual spending.  We have a budget on paper, but I haven't a clue about whether we're sticking to it in real life... what numbers need to be adjusted, what things should be trimmed or brought under leaner control.
I know not to beat myself up too badly.  Since October: two moves, one vacation to PA, multiple bouts with sickness, OT at both work and church... we've been busy.  But that's exactly the problem, since I feel busy a lot but not particularly fruitful.  It feels like all I can do to keep up with the pace of life.

- J

2/17/11

Doing well.  I really like having my own station in shipping.  I have my own phone there for taking calls, and I'm getting to the point where I'm pretty comfortable helping people.  I told some information to a guy today with absolute confidence, then second-guessed myself and had to look it up on our site.  Fortunately I was right so I didn't have to call him back, but I've got to watch myself.  I've starred saying "my shipping department," or "my processing department," instead of THE processing department.  It's subtle, but it's my brain's attempt to make me sound more important than I am.

- J

2/16/11

Doing better than yesterday.  Much more alert so far.  My legs are cramping up when I sit like they did after the honeymoon, though.  This would be less of a problem if it didn't also hurt to stand.
...
Is there anything I can do around here while recumbent?

- J

Really sleepy

Fighting to keep my eyes open.  I'm just not hitting the pillow early enough to sustain myself.  I've realized too that as I've gotten more tired, my aperture of life has narrowed... I've forgotten all of my priorities beyond each individual day.  I'm not regular in my scripture reading, I'm not focused on setting aside a sabbath with you.  On having a "date night".  On budgeting more intelligently.  All these abstracts are beyond my circle of awareness.  I had a lot of down time this past weekend, but I didn't get good rest.

- J

2/14/11

Happy Valentine's Day! 
Now that the necessary has been addressed, we may safely proceed to nonsense.  I'm really happy about being alive right now.  Everything feels like summer.  I'm doing well at work, and people like my music, and you love me. 

More thoughts in head
Song: "His Name Is Aeofel"

Ways the world ends
Cthulu awakes
Ragnarok
Sailor Moon falls in love with Prince Darien
Shaitan taints the male half of The One Source
Kefka alters the balance of the three goddesses
Ganon gains posession of the Triforce
The Genesis Device is activated
Giant meteor / Jenova
The Tripods came
Not with a bang but a whimper
Large Hadron Collider is activated
Skynet
The mutant plague
Megatron acquires the allspice allcube

Even more nonsense

"Magic Dance" hook; Twitterverse;

mashups
Hangin' Tough / Teardrop
LDN / Bring Tha Noize
Jump / (It's the) End of the World As We Know It

- J

Snippets

Party in my pants... wizards?  time travelers? Dr. Who...
Hooks: Brakstreet, My Doorbell, ?

Notable wizards
Merlin
Gandalf
Saruman
Avatar
Blackworlf
Albus Dumbledore
Severus Snape
Nicolas Flamel
Voldemort / Tom Riddle
H.P.
Oz
Howl
Raistlin
The Wicked Witch of the West
Jafar
Lo Pan
Ben Kenobi
Tim the Enchanter
Tellah
Mordenkainen
Schmendrick
Ursula
Circe
Doctor Strange
Fizban
Elminster
Sparrowhawk

This is a story all about when
The the human race comes to its end
So I'd like to take a minute - just sit right there
I'll tell you how Armageddon happens so that you can prepare

In the twenty-first century by surprise
People gain powers, then the robots rise
It's clear they're here, cold fear grips the nation
And they start up a department of mutant registration

...

- J

Nice and quiet today

Hardly anyone here, and only a few phone calls.  Shipping is where it should be.  Bagel with cream cheese.  It's so calm.
...
No one has any idea about the party in my pants.

- J

2/8/11

Work is getting more frustrating day by day.  I don't see evidence of change, just a lot of empty talk to go with an empty GM office most of the time.  Dana was told a few days ago that I'm supposed to be answering all phone calls.  I would have like to have received that memo too.  =/

- J

Things to talk about

-The past
-The future
-Home organization / decoration
--Kitchen shelf
-Constitution
-That book I'm reading

- J

4/2/11

My brain was done at about 10 this morning.  Body, however, appears to still be at work.  This has led to certain challenges.

- J

2/3/11

As Thursdays go, it's good.  Thursday used to be my least favorite day back in elementary school.  It seems so unnecessary.  There's no end-of-week anticipation like on Friday, no beginning-of-week energy like Monday... Wednesday is the halfway point, Tuesday is still early enough in the week that it's not too bad.  Bu Thursday.  Thurrrrrrsday.  It even sounds depressing.
Thanks for marrying me by the way.  That was great.

- J

10/2/10 - 2/2/11

Happy four months. =D
I love you.

- J

I won at scrabble!

I won by 10 points!  Playing almost entirely words I can tell you the meaning of. =)

- J

Thank you cards

People who have made "I wasn't thanked" noises:

Katie Brotten
Vic Mills
Bill and Marsha Odell

- J

1/31/11

I'm surprised how used-to I am getting of being married.  Sleeping next to you with a cat at the foot of the bed is the most natural thing in the world now.  I never thought I'd be able to cope.  I like waking up with you.  I like going to sleep next to you.  I like breakfast with you and walking you to your car.  Our new place needs a lot of work, and I don't feel like I have a lot of energy, but I know I've got you, and we're on the same mission.  It makes it more thinkaboutable.

- J

Friday blog

The funeral home driving position hasn't written me back.  They said in the post that they'd require a 2-year commitment to the position.  To ensure that their training etc is a good investment.  That seems long to me, but death is a complicated business for pretty much everyone except the dead person.

- J

Nothing to say.

-J

An option

Volunteer with the MH_Bel vid team to learn and network.  Study nights to get a CTS cert, and then apply for jobs in the A/V sector.  Investigate what it would take to add an L-06 low-voltage license, maybe continue to take classes once a job that pays better has been achieved.

- J

Famous robots

(for a song concept)

Bender
Johnny 5
Robby
Gort
Data
Lore
Tik-Tok
Maria (from Metropolis)
The Stepford Wives
Marvin
Mechagodzilla
Necron-99
C-3PO
R2-D2
Bishop (Aliens)
T-1000
D.A.R.Y.L.
David (A.I.)
Megatron
Optimus Prime
WALL-E
Astro Boy
Cylons
KITT
Thundercleese
GIR
Robo (Chrono Trigger)
343 Guilty Spark
The Sentinals

- J

Employment History

Jobs that sent me a W-2
Movie theater staff (6 mos)
Temp office assistant (2 wks)
Shoe dept sales (7 mos)
Americorps 1-year contractor (2 hrs)
Deli clerk (9 mos)
Male dance captain (2 mos)
Game tester (on and off for 4 yrs)
UPS unloader (6 mos)
Test lead (on and off for 2 yrs)
Warehouse support (1 yr)
Driver (Sugee's: 2.5 yrs; Jimmy Johns: 2 mos)
Productions intern (7 mos)
Processing specialist (8 mos)

Additional gigs
Short story editor (2 weeks, was never paid)
Shirt silkscreener (on and off for 4 yrs)
Various labor

- J

Job blog 6

Property management
Pro: Gateway to a lot of other admin / office jobs.  I'd probably be good at it.  I could likely get a job in it with the resume I have now.
Con: Not a career.  Not very interesting.
Time to execute: 0-12 mos.
Cost to execute: $0-$500
Jobs available: Some

- J

Job blog 5

Laptop technician
Pro: I like computers, and I like fixing things.
Con: Need certification, possibly more than one. Not necessarily a lot of room for upward movement.
Time to execute: 1-2 years
Cost to execute: $1000-$3000
Jobs available: Some

Forklift driver
Pro: I like operating machinery.  The pay is good.
Con: Questionable working conditions.  Not necessarily a lot of room for upward movement.
Time to execute: 6-12 mos.
Cost to execute: $500-$1500
Jobs available: Some

- J

Job blog 4

Light design
Pro: It sounds really enjoyable, and I think I'd be good at it.
Con: I have absolutely no idea how to break into the field, and it isn't very broad.
Time to execute: 2-3 years
Cost to execute: $2000-$10000
Jobs: Few

Mail room guy
Pro: I have the resume to be able to do it now. Potential upward movement. Heathcare likely.
Con: It's not the kind of job you want to keep for very long. You have to wear nice clothes and uncomfortable shoes every day. Pay mediocre.
Time to execute: 0-3 mos.
Cost to execute: $0
Jobs: Many

Craigslist job postings for A/V install job

"Washington State L-06 limited energy electricians certificate helpful, but not required"
"CTS, CTS-I, or similar AV industry recognized certification preferred. Clearone, Symetrix, Polycom and other industry certifications a plus"

Job blog 3

Forklift driver
Property management

Electrician
Pro: It's a broad field with a lot of jobs and a lot of demand. I think electricity is interesting. It pays reasonably well.
Con: Certification process takes a long time, and isn't even guaranteed since you have to find someone to apprentice with for a year. If you can't find someone, tough luck. Classes and certification is expensive.
Time to execute: 2-3 years
Cost to execute: $2000 - $4000
Jobs available: Many

HVAC repair
Pro: The pay is great.
Con: I'm not super-interested in the field. Certification process.
Time to execute: 1-2 years
Cost to execute: $1500 - $3000
Jobs available: Many

- J

Job blog 2

Mail room guy
T-shirt designer
Laptop technician


... I said it before, but the first step is the hardest because of the overwhelming array of choices.  It's like I have to choose one degree out of three hundred and sixty.
I'm glad I have this job.  I'm glad I've got it, and I'm grateful that there's job security here (judging by the incoming workload), and there's at least room for upward movement of some type.  It's a long way from sustainable, but infinitely better than being unemployed.  I have a dream for my life that involves more than treading water, though.  We'll see.

A/V installation tech
Pro: I'm really interested in the field, I've got a little experience.
Con: There's a million different certificates that all cost money, the field is extremely competitive because it is small.
Time to execute: 3-12 mos.
Cost to execute: $250-$2000
Jobs available: Few

Programmer
Pro: I like some things about it, I'm good at solving problems
Con: I'm starting from scratch, and hire-able programmers need to know several languages.  I don't want to be sucked into the crunch cycle.
Time to execute: 2-3 years
Cost to execute: free-$1000
Jobs available: Many

- J

Job blog 1

1st break of the day blog

Jobs
A/V installation tech
Programmer
Electrician
HVAC repair
Light design
Rapper
Movie critic
Author
Pastor
Electric giraffe sharpener repairman

- J