Money *wah wah wah* It's crime...
Aug. 12th, 2011 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athenaltenaI managed to make my boss laugh this week when I remarked that with all these stock market shenanigans that some of our developers spook easier than horses. She's a horse person herself so she appreciated the reference.
Besides database gnomes this week was interesting because of all this stuff, and I actually had one guy leave me a message to the effect of "Remember how a few months ago we said we'd be going forward? Yeeaaahh... We'll get back to you on that." Repeat that conversation about 12 times and that was essentially my week. Oy.
Luckily it seems to be stabilizing, but it was real interesting being in the thick of that since we're pretty close to State Street, the big financial center. During the worst of it I was down there at one point and brokers were just standing on the sidewalk looking forlorn. Not to mention that I get out of work at 5 and the markets close at 4 so I'd always know if it had gone badly because people in my building would be talking about it, and at my gym there are TVs showing the news so I'd catch news of it there.
The irony is that my personal finances are in better shape than they've been for a while, though on a significantly smaller scale than all of this. There's still not much and I could pretty easily fuck it up or have it get fucked up by outside forces, but I have at least a little squirreled away at the moment. I also realize that one sign I've become and adult is that my nightmares have less to do with getting chased by monsters so much as realizing that I owe someone $6000 with no way to pay them back. And yes that was a real nightmare I had not too long ago.
Besides database gnomes this week was interesting because of all this stuff, and I actually had one guy leave me a message to the effect of "Remember how a few months ago we said we'd be going forward? Yeeaaahh... We'll get back to you on that." Repeat that conversation about 12 times and that was essentially my week. Oy.
Luckily it seems to be stabilizing, but it was real interesting being in the thick of that since we're pretty close to State Street, the big financial center. During the worst of it I was down there at one point and brokers were just standing on the sidewalk looking forlorn. Not to mention that I get out of work at 5 and the markets close at 4 so I'd always know if it had gone badly because people in my building would be talking about it, and at my gym there are TVs showing the news so I'd catch news of it there.
The irony is that my personal finances are in better shape than they've been for a while, though on a significantly smaller scale than all of this. There's still not much and I could pretty easily fuck it up or have it get fucked up by outside forces, but I have at least a little squirreled away at the moment. I also realize that one sign I've become and adult is that my nightmares have less to do with getting chased by monsters so much as realizing that I owe someone $6000 with no way to pay them back. And yes that was a real nightmare I had not too long ago.
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Date: 2011-08-13 07:45 am (UTC)Now starting in business: NOIR