Tuesday, August 02, 2005

The Dead Shift

My job at night is simple and has little in the way of tasks. The shift is almost always an 8 hour one, and basically all I have to do is stay conscious. The other side of the dead shift is that I have become much less productive during the rest of my time throughout the week. I need to find something to do during the day. When I am not at work, I have lately resigned myself to doing no more than playing video-games, reading comic books, or going to the occasional movie. I have also gotten back into reading novels again, as it turns out reading has taken up a huge portion of my on-the-clock time.

(That's right: I get paid, in no small part, to read.)

Besides entertainment, I don't have much else going on. The Plan* is still in effect, but the fruition of that is still months off. I have about an hour to kill, before work so I'm going to go through my 'morning' routine.

[*The Plan: Saving up a significant portion of my bimonthly paychecks in order to purchase industrial grade woodworking machines. With which I will start a private business specializing in architecturally and ergonomic designed furniture with an affordable modern aesthetic. The Plan is to eventually bring in family members so that they may also work in an environment devoid of stupid people which infest our current work places as the rats that carried the Bubonic plague infested the medieval cities of Europe.]

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