07-12-2003, 08:08 AM
Wild arrays of short term contracts. :D
The longest full time job I've had was six months working in a software retail business and I generally don't do well in full time employment, because of my jinx.
Business dried up for that place and it went belly up about six months after I left. Another software retail shop I got involved in granted me part time and casual work for about two years until my jinx finally kicked in and killed it.
The most impressive application of my jinx was when I worked for Dataflow NZ Ltd. which was the New Zealand branch of Dataflow, the old Australian distributer of Blizzard and Sierra products among other things. I worked in the NZ branch for 3 months and just under a year after I left, my jinx evidently caused the new inventory management software package they were trying to implement to be a completely abysmal failure resulting in both the Australian and New Zealand companies dying and heralding the loss of over 100 jobs. :D
Avid watchers of Xena, Hercules and other stuff will have seen me passing across their TV screens a few times. I'm the guy struggling up the slope under a sack, or the zombie on the left, or the spearman second on the right behind the swordsman just to the right of the falling chap almost in the foreground etc.
Say . . . anyone have a company they really hate that would be keen employ someone full time for at least three months? I can guarantee the place will shrivel and die between 6 to 12 months after I leave. :lol:
Right now, I'm not actually working! :D Good for 1.10 playing, but not so great for buying new DVDs :o I'm thinking of getting back into the film industry partly because I've had such a great time in that line of work and partly because my jinx hasn't killed projects that already wrap after a three month shoot. ;)
The longest full time job I've had was six months working in a software retail business and I generally don't do well in full time employment, because of my jinx.
Business dried up for that place and it went belly up about six months after I left. Another software retail shop I got involved in granted me part time and casual work for about two years until my jinx finally kicked in and killed it.
The most impressive application of my jinx was when I worked for Dataflow NZ Ltd. which was the New Zealand branch of Dataflow, the old Australian distributer of Blizzard and Sierra products among other things. I worked in the NZ branch for 3 months and just under a year after I left, my jinx evidently caused the new inventory management software package they were trying to implement to be a completely abysmal failure resulting in both the Australian and New Zealand companies dying and heralding the loss of over 100 jobs. :D
Avid watchers of Xena, Hercules and other stuff will have seen me passing across their TV screens a few times. I'm the guy struggling up the slope under a sack, or the zombie on the left, or the spearman second on the right behind the swordsman just to the right of the falling chap almost in the foreground etc.
Say . . . anyone have a company they really hate that would be keen employ someone full time for at least three months? I can guarantee the place will shrivel and die between 6 to 12 months after I leave. :lol:
Right now, I'm not actually working! :D Good for 1.10 playing, but not so great for buying new DVDs :o I'm thinking of getting back into the film industry partly because I've had such a great time in that line of work and partly because my jinx hasn't killed projects that already wrap after a three month shoot. ;)
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