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[Feb. 5th, 2009|05:05 pm] |
When I was in college, during my second year, my mother - who is an alumnus from that same college - was going to give a speech to the alumni foundation. It was in the early morning, but I promised to attend.
I slept through my alarm. She didn't forgive me for almost a year.
Every time I'm late for something, every time my lazy sleep-in bullshit comes back to get me, I feel like she's there, and she knows. And I'm ashamed.
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I have an appointment tomorrow at 12:30 at Addison Search to look in to the possibility of a six month 9-to-5 contract with Edison Mission Marketing & Trading to clean up and upgrade their Python code-base. As a contract job, I'd have to pay self employment taxes, I wouldn't have as many (if any) benefits, and my employment after the contract... eh, maybe they'd hire me, maybe they wouldn't. Additionally, I'd probably need to pick up a lot of my skills on the job, and I wouldn't be part of a team - I'd be an outsider, a mercenary. I wouldn't have as many people to turn to for guidance or advice during the shaky first few days.
But the commute is easily an hour shorter each way. That's important. It gives me time. |
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Set multiple alarms. I routinely set two and have been known to set as many as five.
Watch
Phone
PDA
Alarm clock
(Hotel) Wake-up call
Calls from friends
Also get enough food (3 meals/day) and sleep (6 hours).
It'd be a solid job for those six months, it's experience for your resume and it'd pay the bills, and it's a chance for you to impress them and *make* them hire you. Try to look at it optimistically, as hard as it probably is for you right now.
Seconding the "two alarms" approach, and make sure one of them's far from your bed so that you have to get up to turn it off. Works for me... Though it helps that I'm in the top bunk, so I've got a five-foot drop to wake me up, not to mention that it's too big a pain to climb back up instead of just getting started with my day. Like I told you before, too, consistency's key; if you're used to getting up at the right time every day, the occasional late bedtime won't keep you from getting up when you need to in the morning. | |
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