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February 2, 2004

The New York work day. Today I begin my first day as a full-time employee at my company. Up until now, I have been living the life of a freelancer and coming and going as I please. That all ends right now.

The last time I had such a regular schedule was my senior year of high school, nearly six years ago. I'm not sure how well my mind and body will handle this new schedule as I'm typically a night owl. If I can manage to adjust, it should be good for me. Waking up at 8am really isn't that bad and my life as a teacher (in two years or so) will require me to be at work by 7:30am. So, this is a good primer.

Comments (6 comments so far)

Comment #1:

Congrats on the promo thats awesome! A 10-6 day sounds equally awesome. Not so early its painful, yet still have the evening available. Ideal.

Now that you have more money will you buy me stuff?

Posted by jannelle on February 02, 2004 at 6:55PM

Comment #2:

Nelly, I am not getting paid enough to buy anyone anything. Sadly, non-profit + nyc expenses = not much money. I'll buy you some suckers though.

Posted by capn on February 02, 2004 at 9:26PM

Comment #3:

congrats to finding some regularity in manic new york. and insurance too!

Posted by emceebard on February 03, 2004 at 11:37AM

Comment #4:

So tell us more about your new job! More details. I am currently going the opposite way--giving up the 9-5 (in my case, stifling) day job in favour of a more flexible work schedule and poverty (freelancing). Any tips?

Posted by katharine on February 03, 2004 at 12:04PM

Comment #5:

Well, I'm working for a Jewish non-profit here in NYC. The website is a two person team, with me handling all of the creative aspects of the site and my boss handling all of the strategery and whatnot. It's not the perfect job but I love my coworkers and the atmosphere is fairly relaxed.

The reason I chose to go the full-time route is because I'm not sure if web design is going to be my life-long career. In fact, I am fairly certain that I'll be teaching in a year or two. So, instead of scraping by, if I'm lucky, I decided to take a full-time position and give up a little in the creativity department. I can still do some freelance projects on the side, if I have time, but this way I know I'll be able to pay the bills and I can enjoy myself for the next year.

I don't know if this the perfect solution, but it'll definitely work for now.

Posted by capn on February 03, 2004 at 12:35PM

Comment #6:

Congrats on becoming a working stiff.

Posted by Matt on February 04, 2004 at 8:12PM

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