Register by Friday, or shut up!
Just a reminder… If you haven’t registered to vote yet, time is running out:
In my home state of North Carolina, the deadline for registering to vote in the U.S. November election is this Friday, Oct. 8. Miss it, and your opinion won’t mean squat to U.S. election officials this year.
Even if you don’t know for whom (or if) you’d vote yet (or when the deadline is for your own state), it’s not a bad idea to register. Who knows? You might change your mind before election day!
To learn more, try this site! (No affiliation, I just figure it has the information you need!)
New breed of “enabled workaholics” evolving
There’s nothing like announcing a new project in the works to guarantee that you won’t get a chance to work on it anymore. Li’l Johnny’s been stuck in the aquarium for more than four months now, and still we have yet to present the sequel to this game. Truth is, for the past month, I haven’t even THOUGHT about finishing the new adventure.
My own whining aside, this brings me to the point of this post (something had to eventually):
Is it just me, or have tech workers, formerly the rock stars of the dot-com era, finally become slaves to the machine? It seems everybody I know these days is either unemployed (with nothing to do) or “overly employed,” working longer hours for bigger dollars. They’re “professionals” after all, and they either get paid very well for working constantly… or not at all for not working. The middle ground doesn’t seem to exist anymore, and rather than risk unemployment, many techies seem to be doubling up whether they want to or not.