and "what ever" as well - nm
Posted By: XXX on 2007-06-20
In Reply to: I'm hoping many will see it and think - sm
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I'd say "What normals?" (sm)
I had an OM tell me that he was contemplating not paying for macros. I said, "Oh, I don't have to worry. I don't use macros, I use an expander." That was the end of that. I'm sure he had to run back to his office to try to figure out what an Expander is! LOL
You want to know "What you people do"?
Easy job? No. Good pay? Not likely unless you have 20+ years in the business and your own accounts (pleural-more than one account-in other words). Need to fill some time? Join an exercise program, knitting class, scrapbooking club, baby/Mom with nothing to do club, etc. (you get the point). Keep the engineering job. If or when you decide to become a "you people" let us know how you are "doing" it and your progress? Let us know if it fills your "void" at night when your baby is sleeping or on the weekends when the baby is with Daddy.... We'd be interested to know how you like what "us people" do once you've figured it out that is... although you have stated that you "thought" it was an easy job because you can type really fast. Good luck... 
And don't forget Dr. "What the **** did he just say?!?!" nm
Reply to "what you said"
I read your statement and thought I don't remember posting on this thread. That could have been written
verbatium by me! Waste of money and time. Although I did feel that I had something up on everyone else when I earned the CME's, it was often times lectures by doc's on something I knew very little about, so in that respect it was a learning process for me. Most employers who state the want CMT's are unwilling to let you off work to attend a conference let alone pay for it, so it costs you PTO time and you pay for the conference out of your own pocket. My last employer (before I gave up my certification) was EDIX now Spheris. There was national convention I wanted to attend. The only way they would pay anything was if I went I could have 2 days off and only if I agreed to work their booth, so how was I supposed to get CEC's working a recruitment booth to make the company more money. It was an absolute joke.
How about a "What's for Breakfast" Post?
Coffee, gotta have coffee...that's about it lately! B O R I N G !
"What kind of friend" is right... but in many (s/m)
other respects she really can be a lovely person. The only thing we have in common really is our common participation in roller skating. But we are at opposite ends of the scale in terms of control issues. She considers herself to be quite the Queen Bee in our group, but oddly, she's the least proficient skater. Sometimes I think she gets controlling of people in order to make of for that. But she also leads a more ordered & scheduled life than most of us. If we go to events with her, it seems like everything has to be geared around HER schedule, and we always have to watch the clock. She's quite regimented, where as I and my other friend are pretty laid-back, ESPECIALLY on our days off! So more and more often, I've been passing on get-togethers at this friend's house, where everything is planned out to the minute, whereas I just want to put my feet up and chill.
It turns out the Queen Bee doesn't like my other friend because she "ignores" her. Well, that is because last year, when we were all roller skating on a vacation in Venice Beach, once again everything was by-the-clock and according to the Queen Bee's schedule, and my friend just wanted to see the sighs and enjoy the warm climate, etc. We were all going to go for a "leisurely" skate up the bike path and then have lunch. Well, the Bee took off at top speed, leaving my friend (who has the slowest skates) in the dust. So I turned back and skated slower with her. About halfway to our destination, the Bee was already headed back. "Why the big hurry?" I asked, and she said we were supposed to go to lunch with her son (breaking into the movie business) and his producer at 1:15 sharp. Well, I didn't want to hurry my other friend back, and the restaurant the Bee was planning on going to was an expensive one, not something I or my friend could really afford. So when we got back, while the Bee was off looking for her son and the producer, I asked my friend, "Okay, you're on vacation, you've never been to Southern California before, what would YOU like to do?" She wanted to re-skate the bike path again, and go for a burger on the Santa Monica Pier. So, that's what we did, and we had a grand time. I think it kind of put a burr in the Bee's britches.... but I think that served her right for being so rude. So anyway, my friend and I had a great time, rode the carousel, ate burgers & fries, and relaxed. But ever since then she has just steered clear of the Bee because she already knows she doesn't like her. I just hadn't realized the Bee was taking it so SERIOUSLY that someone would actually IGNORE her! Well, I guess she should've thought about that before treating my friend so rudely.
AND... this is actually the time that I got to know this friend... on this trip to Venice. She had been invited by Friend #3, a woman who is a friend of both mine and the Bee's. I just assumed that she would be staying with Friend #3. But instead, the Bee said, "Oh no.... Friend #3 is staying with ME! You and Friend (#2) can stay together. So we shared a room at the hotel, and in the end were glad it worked out that way, 'cause that way we could sleep in 'till 11:00, have a leisurely brunch, and show up at the beach whenever we happened to get around to it. If she'd stayed with the Bee, she'd have had to get up at 7:30, be eating breakfast at a certain time (and place), and doing everything according to the Bee's schedule.
And restaurant selection is another point where we don't see eye to eye. I prefer cheap and fast, preferably junk food! But the Bee not only has to pick the restaurant, before we even sit down, she then has to interrogate the poor waiter intensely as to what, exactly, is in EACH and every food item on the menu that she's interested in. She's so picky. We went to a place that had absolutely KILLER pizzas, and I was standing there in the sun dying of heat and hunger, while she had to know every little detail about its ingredients. I felt like saying, "Just EAT the damn pizza, okay?" But of course I didn't.
But again, in the past she has been a very good friend, but I've discovered that if you don't do everything HER way, she gets a little ticked. That in turn has caused me to lose quite a bit of respect for her. I still love her, but I don't completely RESPECT her.
Whoa! "What makes you think" post was is
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