A computer programming job. Oh joy.
One of my ex-corporate masters wants me to come back for a two-month indentured labor contract (through a bodyshop, of course) and, even without setting foot into my ex place of employment it has already answered my question about whether I’m at all ready to consider working as a programmer again.
And that answer would be no; I will not enumerate the reasons why I am not happy with commercial programming because the economy is in terrible shape and we must pay rent to the bloodsucking parasites that have overrun the (pathetic excuse for a) health care system in the American Imperium, but I believe that two months of this will be more than enough for me.
At least this means I can buy a replacement *istDS body, and maybe even a brazing torch so I can glue up a porteur rack and move my handlebar bag down and back so it won’t stick quite so far out ahead of the axis of the high-trail fork on the MLCM (and so I can have a better place to put the front light.) And maybe I’ll even be able to get a hotel room and Amtrak tickets so I can (slowly) ride the orrando R600 that’s going to be done in August (assuming, of course, that I can fix the Sellwood to Hood & Back R300 to not include 5 miles of gravel, then build a R400 so I can run myself up to the proper mileage instead of my rapidly becoming traditional “don’t ride anything longer than 50km for the week and a half before the R3/400, then spend much of the first 200km wondering if I’m insane for going it this way.”)
I’ll just have to keep thinking to myself that
- there’s only 60 days in this contract, and
- lottery tickets are a better investment than the stock market, but I still need to get money to pay for them.
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The project is a simple case of adding functionality to a security subsystem. In a thrice-damned vanity language, to be sure, but a fairly simple project nevertheless.
The company has already made mission-creepy sounds, but the elementary school session starts on the 7th of September, so I have to be finished by then, and I was pretty clear about it when talking to them in the first place. So, no, there will be no mission creep going on here, thank goodness.
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I started a 2 month contract in November last year.
It’s currently supposed to end at the end of September this year. (And it might. But it might not, too.)
Hope you got a really clear statement of work out of them.