Nine to Five
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009You know, I almost entitled this post “9 2 5″ but then realized that ritual suicide would be the only recourse for being so obnoxious.
I’ve accepted a “day job.” Though I’m still technically an independent contractor this current contract resembles everything the nine to five type would be used to. Normal hours, regular payments at certain intervals and a whole corporate bureaucracy to wade through. In short, it is everything I cannot stand about modern jobs. I’ve worked on a more lax contract basis my whole life. It has its ups and its downs, but the up that’s been most important to me is the sense of freedom and the sense of being my own boss. It doesn’t mean I do what I want since, if you don’t please a client you don’t get paid and don’t eat, but still. The dynamic between you and a paying client versus you and a boss are quite different. I’ll adapt though and, really, I’m still a contractor and there’s not a whole lot that can change my attitude. We’ll see how I mesh for the next few weeks.
Frodo should have some fond memories of how I used to operate in an office environment.