I went to the nonprofit thing today. I meant to go tomorrow, but my intentions were rescheduled. Still too late. Stopped taking applications for web dork. Will volunteer there anyway, because it is a worthy cause. And maybe boost my ego by being 20 times more technically competent than the guy who will be doing it.
Came back and within in an hour convinced the oakland adecco office to interview me (thursday morning at 9. The berkeley office turned me down even after I explained my situation), despite my lack of secretarial experience, as well as calling up 4 or 5 different messenger service places (2 of which were collectives, and one of those collectives was helpful. The first one was, err, not.) How this ranks me on the point scale, I don’t know, or especially care. That this all took place within 1.5-2 hours says something.
Goals for tomorrow: hit the two nearby, morning-oriented coffee shops, and see what they have to say for themselves.
Advantage of bike messenger: no need for gym membership, and if I don’t get a washboard this way, I won’t get one any other way. Enough pay to support myself, relatively performance driven pay. Fairly low cognitive demand.
Advantage of temp agency: better pay, though still not great. Greater safety, no serious risk of accidents or damage.
Tomorrow. More craigslist. More universities. Also hit the bike messenger stuff before I cross the bay on my way back. Now heading to east bay.
Laters.
of course, with bike messengering youll get that 6pac, but the chances of having it ripped out by an errant rear-view window is fairly high as well.
Could be exciting though.
you will never get a washboard by just riding a bike. The reason you don’t have one Right Now is that your ab muscles aren’t big enough to show through your skin. If you want a washboard, you could have one in three weeks just by doing crunches 3 times a week.
I mean it.
Actually, if I push down the, admittedly thin, layer of fat on my abs, the washboard, or at least the top of it, shows through. Yes. I do have fat. In fact, I’m on the high side of healthy when it comes to percent body fat, or at least I was a few years ago, when by my own estimation, I was in better shape.
you are on the high side of body fat percentage, if at all, because of a low amount of muscle, not a high amount of fat.
Very true, but the point of my post wasnt the getting, it was the losing of said theoretical sixpack by a horrible, painful SF bike accident.
I used to think that being a bike messenger would be the coolest non-science/engineering job in the world.
Fuck, I still think that, but I’m not near as in-shape-for-biking as I was then (i.e. I imagine becoming one now, and I just imagine pain)