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techrecoveryI take no credit for this - I've grabbed them from a series of postings elsewhere and all I've done is slightly tidied up the formatting and removed the item numbers (due to overlap).
* You often have to have a pimp to help you find work.
* You're used to getting fucked several times a day.
* You used to do what you do for work for fun, but now you're just in it for the money.
* You insist on virus protection even when the customers don't want it.
* When asked "What do you do for a living?" in social situations, you make something up in order to avoid the inevitable requests for freebies.
* People you talk to think your job sounds fun and exciting, until you tell them what you have to put up with each day.
* Your customers are usually dickheads, but you have to make them feel like you care about them anyway.
* The hours are about the same...
* No matter how much you you bump up your rates to the biggest arseholes in the hopes that they'll go elsewhere for their favourite 'special' services, they still keep on returning, & you still feel like you didn't charge enough.
* When your customer goes down, you get woken up in the middle of the night.
* Everyone who isn't already one *thinks* they know what your job involves. They're wrong.
* Everyone who isn't already one *thinks* they can do your job. They're wrong.
* You spend an alarming amount of time setting up for, then cleaning up after, clients who don't appreciate the total amount of work involved; they just notice the 30 seconds they took to screw you totally, and note that they did most of the actual thrashing around.
* You get to work in shady parts of town.
* You hardly get enough room to do your work.
* If you do a good job, nobody will tell about it.
* If you do a good job, the client will tell everyone what a great job *they* did.
* Your clients are always moaning.
Also posted to my own journal
* You often have to have a pimp to help you find work.
* You're used to getting fucked several times a day.
* You used to do what you do for work for fun, but now you're just in it for the money.
* You insist on virus protection even when the customers don't want it.
* When asked "What do you do for a living?" in social situations, you make something up in order to avoid the inevitable requests for freebies.
* People you talk to think your job sounds fun and exciting, until you tell them what you have to put up with each day.
* Your customers are usually dickheads, but you have to make them feel like you care about them anyway.
* The hours are about the same...
* No matter how much you you bump up your rates to the biggest arseholes in the hopes that they'll go elsewhere for their favourite 'special' services, they still keep on returning, & you still feel like you didn't charge enough.
* When your customer goes down, you get woken up in the middle of the night.
* Everyone who isn't already one *thinks* they know what your job involves. They're wrong.
* Everyone who isn't already one *thinks* they can do your job. They're wrong.
* You spend an alarming amount of time setting up for, then cleaning up after, clients who don't appreciate the total amount of work involved; they just notice the 30 seconds they took to screw you totally, and note that they did most of the actual thrashing around.
* You get to work in shady parts of town.
* You hardly get enough room to do your work.
* If you do a good job, nobody will tell about it.
* If you do a good job, the client will tell everyone what a great job *they* did.
* Your clients are always moaning.
Also posted to my own journal
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Date: 2006-03-16 11:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-16 11:58 pm (UTC)What? we can't have this!
Date: 2006-03-16 11:59 pm (UTC)Re: What? we can't have this!
Date: 2006-03-16 11:59 pm (UTC)silly bull.
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Date: 2006-03-17 04:44 am (UTC)Its getting printed out and posted all around my office tomorrow morning.
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Date: 2006-03-17 01:36 pm (UTC)* Anyone can do your job baddly.
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Date: 2006-03-17 05:15 pm (UTC)* Many of your customers already have someone to do this for them, but come to you for the stuff that person can't/won't do. Anything that goes wrong in that relationship is your fault.