My job description August 22, 2010
Posted by Sina in : Daily , add a commentI’m reading Nineteen Eighty-Four at the moment, and the main character Winston seems to be really good at describing his job my job:
Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head. For example, the Ministry of Plenty’s forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot.
Now reread the paragraph and just replace “Plenty” with “Finance”, “boots” with “jobs”, “Winston” with “Sina”, and “Oceania” with “Ontario”.
My punctuation is superb August 5, 2009
Posted by Sina in : Daily , add a commentI had two interviews these past two days. One was the worst interview I’ve ever had, and the other was the best interview I’ve ever had. Both by far.
I hate interviews. Soo so much.
I’ve been reading this webcomic for years now, and I’ve just learned that apparently the authors live in Toronto. Is it fate? Absolutely not. But today’s comic was very appropriate for the week I’m having. Click it to go to the original.
What I do… July 21, 2008
Posted by Sina in : Daily , add a commentBoss: Sina, what do you think about this?
Sina: Hmmm. Let me think about it.
2 minutes later….
Sina: I don’t like it.
Boss: Okay. Good work.
Sina: Thanks boss.
I'm a Maverick July 1, 2008
Posted by Sina in : Daily , 3commentsSina: I’m going back to school next September.
Everyone: But you have a job.
Sina: Yah I’ll be leaving it.
Everyone: Sina, it’s a good job. You can’t leave it.
Sina: Yes I can.
Everyone: No you can’t.
Sina: Yes I can.
Everyone: Ummm, no you can’t.
Sina: Yes. I can.
Everyone: You don’t understand how the world works.
Sina: I’m pretty sure you don’t understand how the world works.