We're living in the future here in the Taylor household. Yesterday we finally replaced our old 15" monitor with a 19" flatscreen. Working with the old monitor was like squinting through the window of a 747. This feels more like a wall-to-wall bay window.
Even with the monitor pressed against the wall at the back of my computer desk you can't look at the entire screen all at once. Instead, you have to pan across gradually. The top left corner is currently lost in cloud cover. I sent a sherpa out to chart the far reaches of the screen a few hours ago. I just heard a sharp scream fading into the distance. He probably fell off one of the speakers. Poor Lapka.
Anyway. I made a pleasant discovery today. I found a website that advertises academic careers. See, I graduated some 2 and a half years ago and have since been working a string of dead end menial jobs in the hope that I'll stumble on something I want to actually do. I always wondered where they advertised jobs for people too educated to stuff meat into sausage skin, and today I finally found it.
This site is the dogs bollocks. It turns out I'm qualified to work as a meteorologist in the Antarctic. The Antarctic, for cryin' out loud. OK, so it's a 3-year placement in temperatures that would make a snowman weep, but it'd be much better than getting on the McDonalds management fast-track.
Marine pollution adviser; catastrophe response analyst; seismologist - These are the kinds of jobs I was hoping to get when I started uni. I'd resigned myself to the belief that they didn't actually exist, or that you'd need a postgrad degree of some sort to get them. So, I'm off to polish my CV and whip off a few applications. I may also have a sandwich.
"OK, so it's a 3-year placement in temperatures that would make a snowman weep"
you'll never get the job with a line like that: the tears would freeze....
Posted by: The Pedant-General | January 10, 2006 at 10:41 AM
Spending three years in Antarctica could have an adverse effect on your planned trek to Mongolia in a tiny, tiny car. A venture of which I am an investor. So you'd better think carefully.
Posted by: buckethead | January 11, 2006 at 01:56 PM
Don't worry, Buckethead. Cold weather doesn't agree with me :)
Posted by: sortapundit | January 12, 2006 at 08:00 AM