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Days of Dulldrom

Is “dulldrom” even a word? Anyone?

There’s something that makes me a little uneasy about making over $40k a year for doing absolutely nothing most of the time. It seems like the more money I make, the less I have to do. Strange indeed.

My first job was working for a grocery store and I was making between $20k – $27k per year and working my ass off. I swear. They worked every dime out of me and got their money’s worth. I’d ask for a break and they’d tell me that I got a break when they hired me. Ugh. Nice attitude. As the years progressed I’ve changed jobs and slowly started making more money and have found that the more money I make, the less work I have to do to earn it. I’m sure there’s some hamburger flipper right now reading this just wanting to smack me right now.

So why am I whining? Well, I actually like being busy and having work to do. Most of my day is spent surfing the web or flipping through papers to make myself look busy. Frankly, it’s ridiculous. I mean, we spend a third of our day working for someone – sitting in their building supposedly earning a living. For most people, sitting around surfing the web all day would be a dream come true, but personally, if I’m not actually working, I’d rather be out doing my own things – which brings me to my second point. If a person doesnt have any work to do, or is quick at their job and finishes it early, why not just let them go home.

I’m basically paid on a “salary” basis, which means that I don’t get paid hourly but instead get paid per year. My attitude is that the company should pay a person to do their job, not on how much time they spend in the companys’ building. If I finish up my work early, I should be able to go home early and not be penalized. My last job was like that. We basically made up our own hours and got paid a yearly salary. There’d be nights I’d stay late working on a project, and there’d be days I’d leave early because of lack of work to do. No one babysat us all day and we got alot more work done. It was perfect.

Companies really need to reform how they approach the workday. The current eight hour system really sucks. I’m totally up for a four day, ten hour per day workweek, just to get that extra long weekend. I’m also up for companies that let their workers either work at home or work their schedule around their lives.

Ugh. Funny. Whenever I’ve interviewed for jobs, the one thing I tell them is that I dont like just sitting around. That I like to be kept busy and have lots of work to do and they’ve all told me, “Oh, we have a ton of work, you’ll always be busy”. And then I end up sitting around, surfing the web for a large portion of my day. My group just hired another person about a month or so ago … you know, because we just have sooooo much work to do.

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I keep saying this over and over … I want to learn photography. It’s such a cool medium and as a designer it would really benefit me. Of course, I just have to get off my butt and take a course, which means I’d have to buy a camera, which right now isnt exactly possible. I mean, it would be a business deduction for the camera and the course, but coming up with the dough in the first place is something of a challenge.

Wifey™ and I just paid off a $2500 credit card bill with the tax money we got back from Uncle Sam. And that was the small credit card bill … we still have a bigger one we are currently paying off. Credit card + 21 year old = Bad News. Just remember that all you people out there. Credit cards are not good for a young person who wants everything.

Anyhow, we are slowly chipping away at our bills and think we’ll have them paid off right around the time we turn 50 years old. “Yay, ma … we finally paid off that futon we haven’t owned in thirty years”. Jesus.

We have a list of things we want, but are holding off on buying until our bills are paid down too. We want to buy a bike, so that we can both go bike riding – sort of an exercise-slash-physical activity thing, seeing as how I’ve turned into a lard ass in the past few months. There’s also the digital camera we want to buy, but since I only want to buy a really good one and that could cost between $800-$1000 it’s on hold too. And finally, there’s that honeymoon we’d like to go on at some point in our lives. Ugh. Does everything have to cost a buttload of money?? I really need to win a lottery or something.

Oh, the honeymoon is going to be a gift to ourselves after we put the final payment on our bills (excluding the car). We want to take a nice long trip to Europe and see the sights – France, Italy, Rome, Greece, all the hotspots. Of course, it would be cool to know how to take a good picture before I actually got there – thus the photography course. See everything is connected.

If anyone wants to give me $50k just donate it here. 😉

May 5th, Wifey™ and I are going to an Alanis Morrisette concert in San Jose. She’s Wifey™’s favorite so it should be fun. The nice part is that the tickets were affordable and we should be having awesome seats. Basically, if you picture a football stadium with the stadium seats all around and the field in the middle, that’s basically the layout of this place we are going to. Every seat will be taken and ours would be located on the “field” portion, which is the same level as the stage. We’re crossing our fingers that the seats are good ones, as neither of us have been there and when I bought them I requested the “best seats available”. I also was able to buy tickets before the public was able to because of a special web only thing I accessed.

So anyhow, that’s what we do in our spare time … aside from paying bills and me whining about being bored at work.

4 Responses to 'Days of Dulldrom'

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    Katie | 29 April 2002

    I think you mean doldrums, hon.


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    Greg | 29 April 2002

    Not really. I meant dulldrom… like how “dull” my days are, hon.


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    Katie | 29 April 2002

    Um yeah… exactly. Hon.dol?drums Pronunciation Key (dldrmz, d??l-, dl-)pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)1. A period of stagnation or slump. 2. A period of depression or unhappy listlessness.


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    Greg | 29 April 2002

    Erm… Hon. I wasn’t even thinking of “doldrums” when I thought of that title. I was making up a word to use for the title.Beeeeeeeeeatch, don’t try telling me what I was trying to say. I was trying not to use Boredom, and instead used “Dulldrom”. Ugh. Whatever.Like I want to rely on a dictionary or thesaurus my whole life to make me appear smart. Not really.


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