An Abundance of Aspirins

edwardspoonhands:

thefrogman:

I think I’m finally getting the hang of this. 

hmmmmm

I see this bear-hatted man everywhere,  In my tumblr.  In my reddit.  In my dreams.  Somebody, help me! Who is this demigod?

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Is…is Philosoraptor Tebowing?

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It’s enjoyable just hearing this folks interacting, but also very useful information if you do work for clients, especially anything art-related.  Click through for the video/podcast of the thing.

Unrelatedly, hummina, Dylan.

 erikamoen:

Hey guys! Once a year for the last three, my good friends Katie Lane, Dylan Meconis, Bill Mudron, and I have gathered together to record a podcast about the ins and outs of being a self-employed freelancer. If you missed our live broadcasting, fret not! For recordings, both podcast and video, are here! For you! It is a two-hour long ordeal, so they’ve been broken into two, roughly hour-long segments. Podcast Version (From Work Made For Hire):

For those of you who haven’t been following the intrepid author, this is the 150,000th signature that he made over the course of about four months.

fishingboatproceeds:

I want to thank nerdfighteria for being so supportive, Stan Muller for doing everything other than signing, my brother for hanklerfishing, and everyone at Penguin for indulging my strange dream.

But mostly I want to thank Sarah. Without her constant support and enthusiasm, this project would never have been finished. And also Henry! He helped a lot, too.

I hope you enjoy The Fault in Our Stars, and if you want one of these signatures, I’d encourage you to preorder tfios today from your local independent bookstore. Thanks again to everyone!

We are become pals!: Chapter 23.

wearebecomepals:

No wait, that’s not what happened. This is what happened.

Listen, first, if you haven’t read this whole series, stop reading now and go to the start because SPOILERS.

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Ok….  So, I wasn’t crushed by chapter 22.  I was crushed when Chapter 23 let me know that Chapter 22 was actually the end.  It’s like I just saw Brazil with the hallucinated ending first second.

I know this is how friendships go.  They change.  People move away.  Somebody becomes your old-friend-occasionally-seen-when-you-get-together, and each of you grow so much between the occasional meetings where you update your visual snapshots of one another.  It’s happening to me already now; has been happening with my dearest friends for years; will happen again soon, before I know it.

Nothing to be done about it.  The loss and sadness comes bundled with the joy, silently building, but never noticed until the end.  Existence is suffering.  Then joy.  Then suffering.  Then joy.  And so on.

wenchbeasts:

Um.

What if I put down too much? What if I put down too little?

I can’t do this!

I can’t reply directly, so hopefully you’ll see the note on this and find it useful.

The first thing to note is that, whenever possible, you don’t want to give an employer a number before they’ve made an offer.  This is something that is commonly requested on applications in hope of giving the employer more bargaining power.  The only time you have the freedom to negotiate your wage/salary freely is when you’re first getting hired on, and if they can get you to pin yourself down before you know the company or how interested they are in hiring you, you’ve just put yourself in a bad bargaining position.  So, whenever someone will allow you to (e.g. paper form or web form that doesn’t validate that it’s a number), the magic phrase is “Dependent on benefits”, since things like vacation days, insurance, flex time, and other perks should figure strongly into the value of a salary/wage.

But that’s not always an option, especially if you’ve got a recruiter or other person looking for a number to narrow the field of available jobs to a reasonable list.  The best strategy, then, is, if you’ve had any work before, even volunteer or part-time work, to take the last wage you earned (or would have earned if the position weren’t volunteer), and add about 10%.  Overreaching a little isn’t bad, as offers will generally be below your requested wage.

If you haven’t worked before, for the U.S. there’s the Bureau of Labor Statistics ( http://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm ) that gives wages by industry and region.  I’m afraid I couldn’t find an Australian government site comparable to the U.S.’ BLS, but I wager there is one out there and I just lack the background to find it.  Also, there’s the for-profit site Glass Door ( http://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm ) which I believe is an international site, but it might not be helpful if you’re looking for an agriculture-like job.

If none of that helps, just don’t underestimate yourself; employers are likely to see this as a sign of inexperience.  Further, it is far harder to negotiate up than down.  But, really, don’t worry about it too much.  Even if you get it wrong somehow, if you are qualified for a position and an employer wants to interview you, your desired wage is unlikely to be a make-it-or-break-it thing.  Pay is always negotiable.

Best of luck.  Job searching takes a fair bit of resolve.

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edwardspoonhands:

Imagine Ducklings Complexly

Comic from Pictures for Sad Children, the saddest funny comic about a ghost stuck on Earth, linked from the image.

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erikamoen:

centuriespast:

Bruegel, Triumph of Death, detail of bottom right, Death Plays the Hurdy-Gurdy, c. 1562-1564, (oil on panel, full size 117 x 162 cm [46 x 63 3/4 in]), Prado, Madrid

Oh jeez, loving the hell out of this.

I really don’t have enough knowledge of old art.  I’m a little shocked to see something like this come from 450 years ago.  I could see a contemporary artist producing something like this…well, probably with different clothes, but still.