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May. 21st, 2007 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tacitI've signed up to do brown_betty 's Documentation Challenge. Yey! This means I have to finish something for a deadline, which sometimes results in actual fic.
To those I promised drabbles to... they're unlikely to ever materialise, for I am the least disciplined writer there ever was. Sorry! And now I have a job of all things, so my days aren't the endless wastelands they once were. Bizaarely though, the busier I get, the more likely I am to accomplish the things I want to accomplish, so... maybe?
(Technically, I've had a job this whole time - but I counted it up recently, and 37 days of work over a *year* do not full-time-make, now matter how extortionate our rate was.)
Is anyone actually interested in my work-related news? I find it endlessly fascinating and worthy of quite a lot of obsession.
brown_betty 's Documentation Challenge. Yey! This means I have to finish something for a deadline, which sometimes results in actual fic. To those I promised drabbles to... they're unlikely to ever materialise, for I am the least disciplined writer there ever was. Sorry! And now I have a job of all things, so my days aren't the endless wastelands they once were. Bizaarely though, the busier I get, the more likely I am to accomplish the things I want to accomplish, so... maybe?
(Technically, I've had a job this whole time - but I counted it up recently, and 37 days of work over a *year* do not full-time-make, now matter how extortionate our rate was.)
Is anyone actually interested in my work-related news? I find it endlessly fascinating and worthy of quite a lot of obsession.
Almost four weeks ago, C and I bought a house to do up. I'm an actual property developer now! C and I have wheedled, convinced, graphed and schmoozed, and we're apparently quite convincing to nice banks with lots of money. Some days it feels like playtime, some days I need to have a cup of tea and some therapeutic chocolate while I wonder what the hell I'm doing, and aren't any grown ups going to come and stop me?
It's not the physical labour that I particularly like about it, although it's more fun than I'd have guessed a couple of years ago. It's the mastering of my own future, and planning my own time, and working out how to achieve something the most efficient way, and imagining how great the house will be when we're done, and making up ridiculous lttle graphs plotting exactly how I'll make my millions.
The other day I knocked down a wall. It was a supporting wall, but we knocked one out in our own house in '05 and felt pretty confident, so erected a couple of acro-props in short order. This is probably all the insight anyone needs into my new career - first off, I am the sort of girl who has acros lying around at home. Secondly, said acros were a bit rusty and stiff from decoratively adorning our back garden for two years, but we found some scented candle oil left in the garage at the new house and discovered it works pretty well as lubricant. The acros are back in the garden now, but they smell pretty.
For the first time, I've had to delegate work. We got ourselves an accountant and I feel like a total waster for doing it - at any other point in my life if I've said 'I didn't have time to do it', it was a total fib aimed at getting me out of doing something I didn't want to do. But learning all the rules and regulations and acronyms and forms was a daunting task that I actually didn't have time to do and which seemed a bit depressing when I know thatGordon Brown (who's the new Chancellor?! Why don't I know that?!) is only going to change it all before next year anyway. Still, it's kinda fun to go to meetings with someone who is invested in the business besides me and C. Meetings with grown ups always remind me that I do know what I'm doing after all, and it bolsters me a bit.
I'm busy, but it's fantastic.
It's not the physical labour that I particularly like about it, although it's more fun than I'd have guessed a couple of years ago. It's the mastering of my own future, and planning my own time, and working out how to achieve something the most efficient way, and imagining how great the house will be when we're done, and making up ridiculous lttle graphs plotting exactly how I'll make my millions.
The other day I knocked down a wall. It was a supporting wall, but we knocked one out in our own house in '05 and felt pretty confident, so erected a couple of acro-props in short order. This is probably all the insight anyone needs into my new career - first off, I am the sort of girl who has acros lying around at home. Secondly, said acros were a bit rusty and stiff from decoratively adorning our back garden for two years, but we found some scented candle oil left in the garage at the new house and discovered it works pretty well as lubricant. The acros are back in the garden now, but they smell pretty.
For the first time, I've had to delegate work. We got ourselves an accountant and I feel like a total waster for doing it - at any other point in my life if I've said 'I didn't have time to do it', it was a total fib aimed at getting me out of doing something I didn't want to do. But learning all the rules and regulations and acronyms and forms was a daunting task that I actually didn't have time to do and which seemed a bit depressing when I know that
I'm busy, but it's fantastic.
