Today I sat down and made a list of things that I want from a job.
Tier 1:
> to have it be in my field at a university so I can take classes for free
Tier 2:
> to be interested in its theoretical underpinnings
> to have it involve both halves of my brain
> (that is, involve problem-solving and creativity. But I'd settle for just creativity.)
> to be close to the decision-makers/decision-making process
> to be considered a professional
> to like the people
> a minimum of HR bullshit
> to get to work on different projects
> flexible work hours
etc. etc. Any thoughts?
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- Lore & Ipsum
- I'm interested in language, grammar, cooking, rhetoric, discourse, design, taxonomies, food, conversation & interaction analysis, girl things, cognitive science, finding a job, and large bodies of water.
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Advertising? It seems the obvious route. Sure, it's just creative lying, but there's theory in successful lying, and language.
And money!
Or am I saying this only because I'm in the thick of Then We Came to the End and loving every page of it?
You are? I couldn't get past page like 150. I will say that I loved the scene where they're photoshopping the missing person flyer, and the following sentence:
"It wasn't that we had anything against him. It was just that he was maybe an inch shorter than he should have been."
I've gotten to do some advertising. And while I find it less insidious than branding, it still creeps me out when I respond to an ad, simultaneously, "you assholes" and "that's awesome."
But mostly, and I forgot to mention this, it's my disinclination towards meta-advertising to clients.
OK. So I'm very interested in the job that corresponds to the description below, but I also wanted to canvass the board to see if there were any other avenues I should be exploring.
Do you speak UI? When you visit a website do you often wish you could change, rearrange and generally improve the site’s overall user experience? If so, read on.
X is looking for a talented and experienced writer to join its User Experience team. In this role, you'll be part of a multi-disciplinary team of interaction designers, visual designers, user researchers and copywriters committed to developing compelling and instructive UI and Online Support copy/content that guides our users through the functionality and features associated with X's online properties.
TWCttE takes a long time to get past the continuous feeling of its premise drying up. Close to halfway through the book its form shifts suddenly, and the whole thing becomes incredible.
(I could also just be saying this after a long drought from anything resembling contemporary fiction.)
What about a pony? Don't you want a job with a pony?
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