Employment
The last time I wrote in this page, I said:
Free! Free from the shackles of unstimulating and exploitive work in a spiritually poisonous and unrewarding capitalist lie. Or something like that.
Well, look who’s come home to Papa. I’m currently overemployed, especially after having spent a good eight months as a traveling vagabond exploring the wilds of New Zealand and Tasmania. I work as a digital output technician for a printing company, which means I live in a constant state of PDF hell, working 55-hour weeks. Fo shizzle.
My last job was as IT Director at iWave Information Systems. I managed servers, databases, web-sites, front-ends, back-ends, some marketing, design and everything in between. It didn’t work out, but it had its moments.
Before being hired on by iWave I was employed and doing some work for Genticity, as a graphic designer, multimedia guru and part-time developer. We moved to a new office and my role started to change, to a 20% design/multimedia, 20% network admin/IT and 60% development. The .NET development didn’t really turn my crank, and when iWave offered to hire me full time I couldn’t refuse. Since the two companies shared an office, I didn’t even have to move my desk.
Before that I’ve done digital imaging and typesetting at my current employer’s (2001-2002), web-page design (since 1993), museum research (20X6), worked in a B&B and all sorts of strange stuff that doesn’t involve music. Not sure if having my love and my work occupying the same space would be healthy or not. It’s also a good excuse not to ‘go pro’ in an industry that chews people up and spits them out.