So, I quit my pizza delivery gig, and am now working as a Vault Teller for a company that services ATM's.

Basically, I hand huge piles of money to armored car drivers in the morning, put away the stuff they brought in from the night before, get the new huge piles of money ready to go out the next morning, and check in the returning drivers' slightly-less-huge piles of cash when they return from their routes.

Good news: my work space is air-conditioned, I get to play with (literally) millions of dollars, there are VERY few dull moments, and it pays about 15% better than that asshole bank that fired me a couple years back.

Bad news: 45 minute commute each way, and I'm currently pulling 10-11 hour days once I get there.

Silver lining: lots of overtime pay, and weekends off.

Dark cloud: not a lot of time for the blogging I want to do here at Bad Example, since I spend a good chunk of what little free time I have fulfilling my contractual obligations over at IMAO.

However, so far I'm still managing to juggle everything. We'll see how long I can keep it up before something gives.

Oh, and if you see someone driving down I-90 trying to scribble blog-post ideas into a notebook at 65 mph, give a wave, because it's probably me.

Posted by: Harvey at 04:33 AM | Comments (18) | Add Comment
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1 Congrats on your new job. I hope you don't need a lot of sleep... you need to blog!!! Just joking. Do what's best and I'll hang around waiting to see what happens.

Posted by: vw bug at August 17, 2007 05:38 AM (FPOeI)

2 Congrats Darlin'! Oh, and I have one word of advice. From one "road warrior" to another....dictaphone.........

Posted by: Tammi at August 17, 2007 05:59 AM (PesK3)

3 Save up some money and get yourself a voice activated laptop - then you can "write" blog posts while driving... *grin* Congrats on the new job - that's fabulous!

Posted by: Teresa at August 17, 2007 06:29 AM (gsbs5)

4 I am so glad that the new gig is working out!! And all you need is one eye on the road - that's more than most folks have...

Posted by: Richmond at August 17, 2007 06:50 AM (XkZ30)

5 So you get to deal with hunky men in uniforms all day?! Damn I am jealous! Congrats on the job!

Posted by: Quality Weenie at August 17, 2007 07:03 AM (grH7t)

6 you'll find your groove. congrats!

Posted by: wRitErsbLock at August 17, 2007 09:36 AM (+MvHD)

7 At the very least, until you get the voice activated laptop, get a small tape/digital recorder. That way you can save any ideas you have, whenever you get them. I've tried it myself, but I'm basically too un-organized to remember to grab the recorder every day...

Posted by: GEBIV at August 17, 2007 01:05 PM (C4SYX)

8 Vault Teller huh..... Could be Ocean's Twenty Four and a Half.... I keed, Congrats Harvey.

Posted by: spurs at August 17, 2007 05:08 PM (SQsl6)

9 Just trying to get new source of dollar bills to post, eh?

Posted by: Roses at August 17, 2007 07:55 PM (6KPV+)

10 What is this "work" you speak of? I don't think I'd like it.

Posted by: Peter at August 18, 2007 12:08 AM (Xa3Qn)

11 yay! Congrats! I think it sounds like the best part to me would be not having to work with the general public. Having co-workers is fine... having to work with other people is icky. I'm glad you got this job!!!

Posted by: Bou at August 18, 2007 07:10 AM (fGpp7)

12 Congrats on the job.

Posted by: sticks at August 18, 2007 01:51 PM (hYTzt)

13 Congratulations on your new job!!! No blogging time? Won't they give you a lunch break?

Posted by: pam at August 18, 2007 02:25 PM (l6NIn)

14 .. that is great news, Harvey.... congrats!...

Posted by: Eric at August 18, 2007 02:39 PM (XKa04)

15 You could blog down the highway and still be a better driver than most of the clowns out there.

Posted by: ChrisA at August 18, 2007 08:45 PM (TnrKn)

16 good. get an mp3 player with voice recording abilities. Consider a PDA that you can use at your job....

Posted by: _Jon at August 19, 2007 04:16 PM (AqumQ)

17 I'm late here, but congratulations!

Posted by: Oddybobo at August 20, 2007 09:01 PM (JC++9)

18 I think you need to combine the new job and the old -- have the armored car drivers deliver pizzas while doing their rounds. And no time? You need to do like the people at my bank do -- sit back and do you blogging and tell everyone else to just wait their turn. Of course, you'll be telling people with guns to wait, so do attempt this at your own risk.

Posted by: Ogre at August 23, 2007 07:23 AM (oifEm)

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