A portrait of Leonard Nimoy made by William Shatner after Nimoy's death

For several years, I had the most perfect situation it is possible to imagine. Since I’d received the project directly from the Director of Research, he had zip interest in managing me. So I stayed with my previous manager who had control of my body, but not of my project. As long as I performed whenever the Director wanted something - which meant staying through the night and delivering at 8am - no one looked over my shoulder at all. If I wanted something, I asked and usually got it. I mentioned to someone that I had to deliver one item at the very last minute and the Director had told me fine, he trusted me. The person was amazed because apparently the director never trusted anyone. But I was cheap by nature with my costs and the Director heard that he was getting my work at 10 percent of what it would have cost him if he’d had it done outside, so he was thrilled, too.

Then the project gradually got bigger. I needed a musician and an animator, and the multimedia part of the magazine needed more research support to design the language (not invented here) and implement the magazine on it. We had some type of engineering support until my husband moved over and built the video studio for me. Then he was the engineer.

But some of the people brought in were not of the pleasantest sort and after a few years it wasn’t as nice as it had been. Husband got out into a new digital video project that had a new computer that some production companies were using. I moved into the user interface institute and proselytized for some really quick, dirty and sexy uses of video in computer projects, so I basically became an inhouse consultant. The studio I left was disbanded.

Then we heard about the most amazing early retirement offer just when I heard that the person husband was least fond of was moving over to his digital project and I instantly knew I could get him out of IBM after 25 years. We commuted 180 miles each way every week. We left on the last day of the last good offer and did wonderfully, so no regrets, and I still have fond memories of the whole experience.

There is a digital media manager job open the last time I checked in my old place of employ.

Most of the useless old guard is gone.

I’d apply just to get a call by hopefully one of the people I dislike to my private and large office that technician me occupies just to hang up.

The job a jumped up version of what I used to do. That horrid Louth is probably still in use.

I enjoyed irking my techno-illiterate idiot boss, the demented wanna be boss, and the friend of the veteran (which he wasn’t then) and other stuffed shirts with my drudge job in Louth land.

I used mixed case which was easier to read and the only person who did. It drove the morons nuts and also showed how much more I did than every one else.

Admittedly, I used a cheat of sorts. 95% of the stuff I had to stripe or ingest had the same titles. The series codes were the only thing that changed. I had a list built in Notepad. None of them had enough brains to look for it.

The rest could not understand copy and paste. Idiot actually accused me of being the source of problems using notepad instead of typing over and over.

This was the same guy who would click the same error box for an hour. It was NT4 based and used cheap Compaqs at the stations. The PCs weren’t even consistent as for specs. They varied greatly.

I had 0 faith in Louth automation. It’s just behind Lotus Notes in terms of loathing in my case.

It can pay a lot more and the commute is a lot less though.

The thought of outcast me being an upper echelon position sounds fun. I think a few middle types would contemplate suicide before listening to me.

I don’t fit the mold since I didn’t spend 4 years in USC Media arts. I went to a tech college and used my last GI Bill money on a diploma program in TV.

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