The_Black_Knight
06-09-2006, 12:29 AM
Hello, everyone. I don't post a whole lot, so this thread will be a good way to find out a bit about me that you might not be able to piece together from my other posts (notice that I have posted here less than 300 times in a year; this means it will take me about a century to hit the 20,000 post mark that morea recently hit).
My real name is Clint. I grew up in New Jersey, and went to the Savannah College of Art and Design for a Bachelor's in Graphic Design. Soon after graduation, I moved back to New Jersey, where I started in the design department for an insurance company. After we were bought out by another insurance company, I was laid off.
For about a year after being laid off, I did some independent freelance work. Then I signed on with a temp agency. My first job as a temp (doing mostly production work for an advertising agency) lasted nine months; then September 11, 2001 happened, and I was let go soon after.
I then moved on to being a "temporary" employee at a company that organized continuing medical education seminars for pharmaceutical companies. This was also production oriented, but since I was more production saavy than most of the other employees there, my work was appreciated. I became known as "Odd Job/Random Task" to my co-workers, because whenever someone didn't quite know how to approach an unusual project or technical issue, they called on me to work on it. I was a "temporary" employee for two and half years, and then got hired on as a "permanent" employee. I got laid off from that job a year later. (Did you catch the irony there? I was "temporary" for over two years, and "permanent" for a year. Mmmm, irony.)
I currently work as a contractor for the packaging production department of the consumer health division of a giant pharmaceutical company. I am also going back to school for my MFA in Graphic Design (as an online student at the Savannah College of Art and Design), so that I can be a college professor one day.
What else? I have a wife, three cats (see the Pets thread elsewhere on the board for more about them; the cats, that is, not my wife), and I live in northern New Jersey. I would describe my sense of humor as very dry and a bit sarcastic; I enjoy British humor, particularly Monty Python and Douglas Adams. I've read a good bit of science fiction, and I'm very interested in astronomy and science in general.
If you're still reading this, you have too much spare time. :p
My real name is Clint. I grew up in New Jersey, and went to the Savannah College of Art and Design for a Bachelor's in Graphic Design. Soon after graduation, I moved back to New Jersey, where I started in the design department for an insurance company. After we were bought out by another insurance company, I was laid off.
For about a year after being laid off, I did some independent freelance work. Then I signed on with a temp agency. My first job as a temp (doing mostly production work for an advertising agency) lasted nine months; then September 11, 2001 happened, and I was let go soon after.
I then moved on to being a "temporary" employee at a company that organized continuing medical education seminars for pharmaceutical companies. This was also production oriented, but since I was more production saavy than most of the other employees there, my work was appreciated. I became known as "Odd Job/Random Task" to my co-workers, because whenever someone didn't quite know how to approach an unusual project or technical issue, they called on me to work on it. I was a "temporary" employee for two and half years, and then got hired on as a "permanent" employee. I got laid off from that job a year later. (Did you catch the irony there? I was "temporary" for over two years, and "permanent" for a year. Mmmm, irony.)
I currently work as a contractor for the packaging production department of the consumer health division of a giant pharmaceutical company. I am also going back to school for my MFA in Graphic Design (as an online student at the Savannah College of Art and Design), so that I can be a college professor one day.
What else? I have a wife, three cats (see the Pets thread elsewhere on the board for more about them; the cats, that is, not my wife), and I live in northern New Jersey. I would describe my sense of humor as very dry and a bit sarcastic; I enjoy British humor, particularly Monty Python and Douglas Adams. I've read a good bit of science fiction, and I'm very interested in astronomy and science in general.
If you're still reading this, you have too much spare time. :p