Originally Posted by Ki (Post 1317144)

Been really enjoying my new job even if today was just a cleaning day (we have corporate top dogs coming in tomorrow). They haven't given me anything shorter than 32 hours a week so far, and they say it will only progress, mainly because they signed me on as full time right away, which I am totally fine with. The job is a lot of fun, and I get a good workout, so i'm pretty happy with how things are going.

Originally Posted by ladyislingering (Post 1317153)

and we totally got our feet in the door for a brand new apartment, so that's pretty exciting as well.

Originally Posted by mojopinuk (Post 1316527)

It's been good the last two weeks. As my tutor was off, we had the IT section leader cover us and he gave us some practical, hands-on things to do. We were the helpdesk for the college, set up our own server, installed some new PCs into offices etc. It's a hell of a jump from where I was, which was basically barely even started on my course (I had had a day and a half in the classroom) but it was fun, and I'm glad I got my server to work.

Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 1317329)

My day? I'll tell you about my day. I spend the day losing pay and doing my civic duty by serving on a jury. Same as yesterday. Same as the day before. I'll be doing the same tomorrow. It's actually pretty interesting but losing also a week's pay as a side effect kind of sucks.

Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 1317329)

My day? I'll tell you about my day. I spend the day losing pay and doing my civic duty by serving on a jury. Same as yesterday. Same as the day before. I'll be doing the same tomorrow. It's actually pretty interesting but losing also a week's pay as a side effect kind of sucks.

Originally Posted by duga (Post 1317364)

I've been lucky... Every time I've gotten called for jury duty I'm about to move states so I've always gotten out of it. Are you allowed to tell us what the trial is about?

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 1317365)

Did they do jury selection?

Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 1317392)

I'm not allowed to talk about it. So I'll just say it's a criminal case for something fairly serious but not disturbing or anything like that.


Yep.