Hipnago

Man, these days are hectic. There are a lot of thigns going on, and you don't want to know anything about them but you have to face them anyway. I feel like I have to swim 100 meters back and fort when I don't know how to swim very well...

For a good thing (as good as it can be for now) I finally quit my job, I was the last graphic designer they had left, the rest have resigned one by one, because it's as my buddy Victor told us before quitting too: "there's no paycheck that justifies a bad working enviroment". Guess each one of them had enough of being treated like a Macgiver in a sweatshop. We give work to everyone in the company, but we're treated like the fifth wheel in the trunk. Thank heavens I had it easy (so far... they still have to pay me november) some weren't allowed to check their contract, and some were outright denied to have their certificate that proved they worked for this long with them, which is an important paper in my country if you're looking for a job. Others who resigned mid-year are still trying to get their last month paid. I guess that's what money does to some people -coughbossescough- you just loose empathy towards other people. I mean, just look at Trump, the guy might as well be an alien that eats money and craps hate, he has no empathy whatsoever towards other people who's not white enough. And yet.

But anyway.

I'm finally going after my... how do you say it? Job title? Decree? I really can't remember the english word, sorry. But yeah, we have a group and a project and we're presenting it this feubrary in an open execution- I mean, open exposition: ten minutes to propose our project, then ten minutes for a round of questions from the jury and anyone attending (mostly students, some teachers; boy would it be easier if it were just students?) and then the longest ten minutes of our lives so far, waiting for the judges to tell us if we passed or not. We still have one chance in worst case scenario, to correct any mistakes and given a second date to present the project.

Please, wish me luck (and the strenght to present a solid project) and for the team to do their job (all of us, that too) I've been delaying this for a log time, I'm literally the oldest guy among the 3 groups... if there was money, there wasn't time and vice versa, and the chances were just flying by and something always prevented me from jumping and catching it.

But, yeah. Enough rant. I have a chance now. Well, there's another coming next year, but I know I won't have the money for it... I mean, you can't find a job that fast and then ask for an advance the very first day, can you?  It's one of the best ways to be put back on the streets in record time.

Hope you're enjoying the summer. It's summer here. For some of you it's winter, and I feel a bit envious you guys get to have snow this time of the year. We get an ungodly heat, but we get to see more bathing suits sooo... I guess it's a trade-off? See ya soon. Take care and enjoy the holidays!

Can't believe I kept forgetting what social media is. It's being years and literally forgot I had an account here...

*sights* Guess the usual excuses come here: work being a bitch, pets being sugarpies, work being a bitch, hobbies taking time, work being a bitch, not being able to draw or paint almost at all because work's being a bitch, tablet broke down, my action figure collection growing, started building gunplas (and loving/hating every minute of it), working on my custom figures, mi cat Moka following me all over the house and hating my figures (she won't miss the chance to bitchslap the nearest one when I'm not looking)... oh, and work being a bitch.

No wonder so many people are starting to leave. And I'll be following them soon, it's just a metter of saving up all the money I can. There's this thing in my country, in which your job has to pay you a compensation (this is taken from your pay every month and deposited into an account) for all the years you worked for them after you quit. But our bosses made a "legal" move and now all of us have being working for years (4 in my case) without that compensation. I don't know how many of us are aware of that.

Nah, there're a lot of bad stuff going on lately, mistreatment, non-paid extra hours, awfull working enviroment, and even more awful managers (please, can you really make a 1:00 animation in half a day??. Really???) that my job is goign downward, and I think they won't be able to get back up again. At least not like they used to be. They'd have to change managers first, then change their politics of employeerinter machine, start paying us on time and not when they kinda remember (I went 2 months wiouth payment, guess I'm too passive or too stupid) and giving us those extra hours many of us are forced to do. Oh, and that compensation too.

But they won't, because that won't make them so much money so forget it. I'm saving up and then Daniel is gone. Free like the wind untill a corporation starts charging for bottled air. They'll always find a way to take your money, and you won't even complain.

Argh, enough ranting with the liver, just had to take that out of me... there's a lot of bad stuff happening at my job. Like, really bad. Kinda like in a movie, but that's the reallity of most jobs in my country. But I learned in all these years that karma exists, and indeed she's a bitch. Sooner or later all these bull will come to bite them in the butt, and I don't want to be there when the lawyer-shaped dung finally hits the fan.

Wow, what a rant. Sorry again, ot anyone reading this. Just really had to take that one out. Hey, next time I'll write about my pets. Yeah, that'll be nice. Really nice.

I can only enjoy the remainning days untill my new job finally starts. Which will be this saturday.
Got to work on those half-way-done drawings, after that there'll be little time to work on any of them (provided that I make it home with any energy left, if past experiences tell me something)

It's a good thing I managed to negociate a better pay this time, with the same work hours per week. Hopefully I'll be able to buy a new tablet and printer (tablet comes first) the markers I wanted will have to wait... nah, there are so many things I need, I'd need a list to keep track of it all.

And this band_aid is not helping a bit in typing. Clover, my brother's cat decided to auto-proclaim herself queen of the house, and I learned (in the painfull way) not to pet any other cat (namely: Tita, our newest and younger cat) while the "queen" is around. Fortunatelly it was one of the fingers in my left hand, if it was the right hand (the one I draw, write, paint, and fire at anything in FPS games with) I'd have her skin serve as matress for my cat's bed within the hour.

Yep, now we have two dogs and four cats. What a way to love animals, but luckily we're not as extreme as other people seem to be concerning animals.


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Classes are finally over, and though I was happy enough I could be jumping from couch to couch all around the house like a rat on sugar high, I was too tired to even walk half a block. Well, that behind, I was trying to catch up with all the half-done drawings both in the hard disk as in my studio (the watercolor pencils might've been yelling "you neglected us!" all these days) hope I hadn't forgotten how to use them 'cause that'd be totally humilliating, in more ways than one.

Hopefully I'll get a job soon so I can be usefull in the house once again (though work for illustrators in my country often involve long, underpayed working hours with unreasonable bosses, but that's how one develops their patience, of course everything has its limits)

Hadn't worked very much on the pictures 'cause I retook the online game I left months ago (the curse of the online games, hehehe) and the folks were there, and we ended up having a good time with the old pranks towards each other. Well, the ink on the last doodle should've dried in a few more minutes and the watercolors are waiting, I should start painting in... half an hour, maybe? Really looking forward to that.


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Thanks and see you soon.

Today's the final test of graphic design (well, as tests go, it's more like a trial with judges and all) and to tell the truth, I'd feel more at ease presenting alone the campaing than with my team. We're three (let's not count one of us, he's just hoping to get free grades, we've done most of the work and if not for him, we'de finished it quicker but, whatever)
There's always one of them in every team.

Hope everything goes fine. I know it never goes smoothly, but one can improvise. You always have to improvise in the end, things unexpected, unexpected questions, reactions, all the stuff that makes life interesting and nerve wracking.

And when we finally finish the test, think I'm going to bark at the parasite in our team all the problems and nerve crysis we had to endure thanks to him. He's probably the most mediocre person I've had the misfortune to work with. Let's see... yeah, all of his work had to be fixed by me in order to get accepted (and I'm not lying).

Do I sound full of anger? Maybe it's because I'm frustrated at many things, mostly at him, a bit to the teachers, and at me too. Who let the parasite in the team in the first place? Me. Man, at least I won't have to see him again after this.

Sorry for the rant, but had to get it out of me.

After all this is over, I can finally hit my drawings again, I thank the Lord for that.



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