2002-01-11-7:47 a.m.

"I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane, with all the other rich people, and I want him brought right here with a big ribbon on his head. And, I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no good, rotten, floor-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed, sack of monkey sh** he is!!!... Hallelujah!!!... Holy Sh**!!!! Where's the Tylenol?" -Clark W. Griswold, Nat'l Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. :)

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The job hunt has turned a bit comical in my mind now. I'm doing my best, but I'm beginning to think the amount I request for salary doesn't coincide with what most employers are willing to pay me. It's the simple fact that I know approximately what these jobs are worth and I know what I'm worth. I'm learning to be reasonable and I'll accept an offer if it's an honest offer.

So far I've been told a job paid a certain amount, then got an offer far below that which I've been told. That isn't right. If a job pays a certain amount, then that's what you should pay.

Then there have been other positions in which I know people who already work in that company, in that position. I know what they make and have been offered much less money than that.

I know it sounds selfish, but I'm very proud of what I've been able to accomplish in life and don't want that accomplishment to be taken advantage of.

I suppose I've a lot to learn about pridefulness, I'll admit that. In all honesty though, I've been taken advantage of so many times in life that I'm willing to sacrifice bankrupcy. It's a hard line to follow.

Somewhere there's a perfect job searching me out. I've been watching a movie called, "O Brother, Where Art Thou!", it's an interpretation of Homer's "The Odyssey". I feel like I'm in a Homeresque written play right now. I'm chasing success and it's right behind me trying to get to me before the Devil has his way with me.

I'm a modern day greek comedy. Go figure.

d.