stereotypist ([info]stereotypist) wrote,
@ 2008-05-06 11:44:00
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an edited custom comic, cause i felt like it. if i gotta get a job real soon sometimes i think i want one of those jobs where people think what you do is magic.

stereo total - plötzlich ist alles anders

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[info]beaglej
2008-05-06 04:59 pm UTC (link)
This is pretty much every job I ever had... except for when I worked tech support, and none of my coworkers were impressed that I could freeze a pane in Excel. I felt much less special then. The people who I tech-supported were impressed, but it seemed hollow :(

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[info]phrench_phried
2008-05-06 05:08 pm UTC (link)
What you're doing now is magic. Anything else is just going to be a cheap substitute for magic.

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[info]marzipanbaklava
2008-05-07 01:04 pm UTC (link)
Completely true and extremely well put.

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[info]schroedingrscat
2008-05-06 05:22 pm UTC (link)
See if you can get a job as techie for the library system. I am that man, only sometimes children clap for me too.

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[info]labyrinthyne
2008-05-06 05:33 pm UTC (link)
that happened to me! someone asked me to create a database of information that had not previously been collected anywhere, without giving me the means/resources to go out and research/collect it myself - because "well we figured you were young and resourceful and you could figure it out."

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[info]westival
2008-05-06 11:57 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, this working for the technology resistant elderly phenomenon can work horribly in reverse. Once they've become used to your magic, they become confident that nothing, no matter how ridiculous can be crammed through your magic-hole and come out better than they imagined.

And when you fail them...oh how frustrated they are that their magic box has become dysfunctional.

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(Anonymous)
2008-05-07 04:32 pm UTC (link)
Well, where I come from, we don't call it a magic hole. No sir. We call it a do-do hole, or an a-hole, depending on the context.

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[info]westival
2008-05-07 09:40 pm UTC (link)
You must come from a wonderful place!

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[info]terrorflynn
2008-05-06 05:49 pm UTC (link)
story of my life

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[info]stocktaking
2008-05-06 06:36 pm UTC (link)
when you can do 3d graphics people even start to be a little afraid of you

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[info]stocktaking
2008-05-06 06:38 pm UTC (link)
at least when you work for a company where you're not supposed to know how to do that, anyway

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[info]ultrastefan
2008-05-06 06:38 pm UTC (link)
The problem with being proficient with anything in a work enviroment is that you are then THAT guy/gal to go to for help, whenever anything goes wrong. Best to feign ignorance.

Me? I'm naturally ignorant.

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[info]mattg
2008-05-06 06:48 pm UTC (link)
Floating under the radar is one of my special skills. :)

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[info]mattg
2008-05-06 06:47 pm UTC (link)
During the summer between HS & college (1991), I had a job working at Mobil Oil. In the department I was working, they had one computer. It ran DOS and had DBase or maybe Paradox on it. Paradox, I think. We were inventorying boxes of documents by hand and keeping written records of them, so I decided to create a database to keep track of them instead. It was as if I had made the Statue of Liberty disappear.

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[info]image_cut_outs
2008-05-06 08:21 pm UTC (link)
My sister will love this. I'm emailing her this.

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[info]ouranticipation
2008-05-06 08:40 pm UTC (link)
So true.

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[info]brokeneyeball
2008-05-06 09:13 pm UTC (link)
haha, I want a job where people think what I do is magic, too!

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[info]nervousystem
2008-05-06 11:12 pm UTC (link)
Fucking awesome.

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[info]yfrontninja
2008-05-06 11:44 pm UTC (link)
YES! This was last week for me. Photoshop is a gift to humans from wizards (is what my boss thinks).

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[info]wickedgood
2008-05-06 11:44 pm UTC (link)
Haha, nice :)

Hey - good luck with the job hunt~!

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[info]jameskalyn
2008-05-06 11:46 pm UTC (link)
I get so much love every time I press the Make PDF button.

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[info]isthatjamie
2008-05-07 02:21 am UTC (link)
Oh, this one's awesome. It reminds me of all the times I have to explain the wonders of Microsoft Word and the print function to my co-workers.

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[info]kinokofry
2008-05-07 04:11 am UTC (link)
Wonderful.

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[info]morningxafter
2008-05-08 02:20 am UTC (link)
nice! i just stumbled in, but i like your stuff!

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[info]mrmxy
2008-05-08 03:59 am UTC (link)
Anyone else having trouble downloading the MP3? Maybe it's the ö.

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[info]stereotypist
2008-05-08 04:03 am UTC (link)
oh yep, it was the dang ö, taken care of now, thanks for tellin' me.

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Ironically...
[info]pauldwaite.co.uk
2008-05-08 10:17 am UTC (link)
...I think the one job where almost everyone is convinced what you do isn’t magic is “Magician”.

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[info]fieryatavian
2008-05-08 04:07 pm UTC (link)
I have one of those jobs!!! And I'm not even in tech. I'm just a Web editor. I even get asked to help people use their cell phones.

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