So I guess my life plan has taken a sharp turn for the better. While I was previously planning on staying down here in ol' Southern California, the rejection (I guess you can call it that) from CSUF put a bit of a halt on my progress. After some thinking and planning (and hopefully some more thinking and planning next weekend with my parents), I am hopefully going to be moving back up to the SF Bay Area with my family and saving up money to attend school up there.
This provides me with the opportunity to save A LOT more money for school than I would have just staying down here. I'll save on rent, utilities, and most of my food every month. That's at least a good $1000 a month or so back in my pocket. This makes the tuition for school very easy to pay, as well as giving me some more money to play with if I need it.
It also puts me in close proximity to the top two studios I probably want to seek employment at. Pixar is close by in Emeryville, and ILM is across the bay in SF. I know I'm going to have to work really really hard to get there, but I'm already looking forward to the journey.
It feels pretty good right now actually, knowing that I am going to have the opportunity to pursue my dream and hopefully one day get to work at Pixar.
It also feels pretty good knowing that most likely I won't be stuck in this hell (job) for more than another 4 or 5 weeks. Which brings me to the "failure" part of the post. Another little short anecdote about my technologically retarded superiors...
So in my department we need to send these things we call "EU Dossiers" to the EU (who couldn't see that coming?). Originally we had everything in paper form, and it took 8 months of convincing and a move to a smaller office to make my bosses make the conversion to keeping the files digitally. Actually I lied, we haven't converted to digital, we just now have digital in addition to the paper files. Although to my credit, the papers aren't in gigantic 3" binders anymore, and are in nice and small presentation folders.
Back to the story though, so I'm almost complete compiling a completely digital version of the EU Dossiers and we are going to burn them onto CDs. First off, neither of my bosses realized you could fit a shitload more than 14 pdf files (less than 1mb each) onto a CD. Second, my department director didn't buy a cd spindle at costco because she thought that those particular CD-Rs were only for burning music. Third, same person asked me what side of the CD-R you put the label on (WTF?!), and if that was enough to identify because she was somehow in awe at how small CDs are in size. The dam things have been around for more than 20 years and you still don't know how big it is!? And the kicker, is that she requested that I make the pdf files on the CD "read-only" so people can't change the files on the CD. Yea. Good times....
Well until next time, peace.
This provides me with the opportunity to save A LOT more money for school than I would have just staying down here. I'll save on rent, utilities, and most of my food every month. That's at least a good $1000 a month or so back in my pocket. This makes the tuition for school very easy to pay, as well as giving me some more money to play with if I need it.
It also puts me in close proximity to the top two studios I probably want to seek employment at. Pixar is close by in Emeryville, and ILM is across the bay in SF. I know I'm going to have to work really really hard to get there, but I'm already looking forward to the journey.
It feels pretty good right now actually, knowing that I am going to have the opportunity to pursue my dream and hopefully one day get to work at Pixar.
It also feels pretty good knowing that most likely I won't be stuck in this hell (job) for more than another 4 or 5 weeks. Which brings me to the "failure" part of the post. Another little short anecdote about my technologically retarded superiors...
So in my department we need to send these things we call "EU Dossiers" to the EU (who couldn't see that coming?). Originally we had everything in paper form, and it took 8 months of convincing and a move to a smaller office to make my bosses make the conversion to keeping the files digitally. Actually I lied, we haven't converted to digital, we just now have digital in addition to the paper files. Although to my credit, the papers aren't in gigantic 3" binders anymore, and are in nice and small presentation folders.
Back to the story though, so I'm almost complete compiling a completely digital version of the EU Dossiers and we are going to burn them onto CDs. First off, neither of my bosses realized you could fit a shitload more than 14 pdf files (less than 1mb each) onto a CD. Second, my department director didn't buy a cd spindle at costco because she thought that those particular CD-Rs were only for burning music. Third, same person asked me what side of the CD-R you put the label on (WTF?!), and if that was enough to identify because she was somehow in awe at how small CDs are in size. The dam things have been around for more than 20 years and you still don't know how big it is!? And the kicker, is that she requested that I make the pdf files on the CD "read-only" so people can't change the files on the CD. Yea. Good times....
Well until next time, peace.
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