Friday, January 25, 2008

Cribz

Buying the house today! I'm very excited. I had to wake up at 6:00 to get into work by 7 so I could leave at 12 because I have no vacation time to take the day off (which really sucks) but dems the breaks. I've never been into work this early, its somewhat calming. If it wasn't for the initial groggy feeling when I wake up I might always do this. Its just M and I in the office..scratch that two more people just came in at 7:50. Anyway, everything is dark, no office noise, no phones ringing, just music emitting from my ipod and two computer screens...if only I could recreate this in the middle of the day...
So anyway, my uncle recommended I read "The Lies about Money", I'm in chapter 2 and I'm so glad I did purchase the book. I think I''ll have to take a few classes on financing and the stock market, apparently I've got tons of misconceptions floating around my head and its a terrible shame to be so ignorant about money. But its almost as if America wants it that way, after all your parents don't teach you about money (unless maybe you're jewish) the school system can barely stay afloat so they probably don't know anything about money, unless you do finance or accounting in college, you sure as hell won't pick it up there...when was I supposed to learn how to properly invest and manage the money I make coming out of school? So I've taken steps to educate myself. I want a properly diversified portfolio by the time I'm 30, I've got a few more personal things I need to buy this year, but after I'm done with those I'll probably be saving everything I get for travel and investment.
I'm buyin a house!!!!!!

" Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

Friday, January 18, 2008

A New Era...Bruh

So I've started my new job and all in all I think it might end up being a good thing. The people seem pretty cool, very energetic and knowledgeable and I think thats whats really going to make the difference. I think I'll be learning a lot, I was told most teams only push out a few projects a year but apparently my team produced like 20+ projects over the past year, all of which look very complex. So I'm biting the bullet, packed up all my jeans and hoodies in exchange for button ups and slacks.

I have to say on Monday I was extremely disappointed, everything was wrong except my position and pay. My commute is a little longer than I expected, I love having multiple monitors and right now I've only got a laptop (of which everyone gawks over because its the newest version, but I don't find it all that great) and a crappy 18 inch monitor. I'm gonna see if I can do something about all that. Anyway, as the week has progressed (and after I threw out all my previous expectations and took a few shots to the face) I've decided it isn't terrible. I'll probably feel even better after my first check, so I'm gonna hang in there.

Hmmm ok so switchin gears, C and I have decided we need more friends. You go through school never having to work on a social life and then bam, you start working and you realize that if you don't plan anything on the weekends...then you don't DO anything on the weekend...except drink. And lets face it, you can drink and do other activities all the time...so uh, bottom line, we're just not utilizing our free time very well. So I guess we're goin to the strip club tonight, tomorrow some gay bar with smash and her gf (that'll be new experience). It probably won't be my type of crowd...then again I don't have a crowd so we'll see how that goes. So anyway, hopefully I'm playin on this basketball team at work and I was supposed to go to some fancy restaurant for lunch with some coworkers but some system crashed so they all bailed. Well, thats my goal for now, be more social, meet more people.

On another note, about work. So yeah, at Metron, sometimes I'd come in and do like 6 hours on a slow day, but it would be 6 hours of just straight work, not roaming around, not talking to people, not BSing. So at my corporate job, yeah I'm here 8 hours...but like 3 hours is social BS cause everyone talks to everyone on a regular basis. Then 1 hour is devoted to meetings...and between waiting for the elevator, the printer and saying hi to everyone on the way back I think people honestly do like 3-4 hours of work. I'm not sure I agree with this working style...but I don't have a choice I guess. So one must assimilate.

"A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick."

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Get the safe belt.

I start my new job tomorrow. I should be more thrilled I guess. Something isn't right though, like I forgot something. Hopefully everyone will be cool. I guess I gotta prove myself all over again. I'll write more later.