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Two years ago today was my last day of work at PwC, where after 16 years I was a victim of mass layoffs. 6 months later, my wife was also let go (fuck you, Trump), leaving us without health insurance or a sense of stability. By late 2025, PwC had completely dissolved the remaining US Creative team.
I was luck enough to land a contract position at Edward Jones six months out, and for the last 18 months I held that position, built a team from the ground up and set some pretty high standards. I became quite attached to the team and the designers I had hired and trained.
Unfortunately, the nature of a contract role is that there are no benefits, and this one was also a significant pay cut from PwC. Don't ask how much health premiums are for a family of four in New York unless you want to punch a wall. Needless to say, I never stopped applying for jobs, randomly clicking through some corporate Workday site for the thousandth time, sending my shitty resume out into the ether, not expecting a response.
Well shit. I start a new job on Wednesday. Full salary and benefits. I'm back baby!
- Nice! Congrats! You just described my near exact situation (and I'm still looking)...
You guys hiring? (lol)PonyBoy - Congrats. Clientsside or agency?Longcopylover
- That's great news!canoe
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- woot wootpango
- Excellent news. Good work.Morning_star
- good stuff. I too worked in corporate before doing my own stuff. But my own stuff has gone pretty slow recently. Trying to get more happening. It's tough!sab
- Nice! Congrats! You just described my near exact situation (and I'm still looking)...
- Continuity3
- +1 for Floodlandfooler
- Are you a fan of KMFDM?palimpsest
- Might be!Continuity
- Ohhh, KMFDM, love those guys, haven't listened to them in years!!elahon
- I love you, but we have absolutely no shared commonality in music, brother
hahaNairn - Kill Mother Fuckin Depeche Mode?stoplying
- I LOVE that Front 242 album. Most people gravitate to Front by Front because it has Headhunter.CyBrainX
- @CyBrainX: yup, exactly. This one is fucking chef's kiss.Continuity
- @Nairn, I'm afraid I have to disappoint you even more. I love green bell pepper, mushrooms, and black olives on my pizza.Continuity
- Hey now, hey now now!canoe
- Gabriel3
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It lets you organize your macOS folders by giving each one a custom icon made from any picture — or just a color — in a few clicks.
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- palimpsest4
- +1 Faith in Strangers - surprised to see that on our list, Pal! xNairn
- Also, Nosaj Thing. I didn't realise you leant that way!Nairn
- Andy Stott!CyBrainX
- Violence!!!!palimpsest
- Soda Stereo, my mancanoe
- renderedred4
- in november the film will be posted for free on the guardian website.renderedred
- neverscared7
- lolGardener
- Police Academy 1-4 are awesome._me_
- lol very thin blue linepango
- Mmmm Callahanprophetone
- Might I suggest Night Patrol? It stars the girl from the Exorcist, Pat Morita and the Unknown Comic. (This is not a bit)garbage
- The Blue Oysterfooler
- At some point there's a cock-fighting scene, and it's two naked dudes fighting with their dicks in an alley. Revel at the cover art:garbage
- https://i.haasie.com…garbage
- I used to host shitty movie parties, and two movies made people tap out: "Night Patrol" and "Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom".garbage
- Night Patrol lol I have that on VHS... ‘ got an infection on my thumb. My doctor told me to keep it warm.’ Lolprophetone
- Christopher Nolan wishes he could put a scene together better than this https://youtu.be/4gE…prophetone
- ‘Cream’a washroom...’ lolprophetone
- Blue Oyster LOL!canoe
- kingsteven1
- Oh damn I love this one. I haven't seen too many of these with Captain Beefheart, Can or Stereolab. I don't know Paperclip People but the rest are ace.CyBrainX
- hah, surprisingly easy to put together all in constant rotation for nearly 30 years :) hardest was deciding between safe as milk and clear spotkingsteven
- Homogenic was the last great (even, good) Bjork album. Christ, I miss early Bjork.Nairn
- I love the album about mushrooms with the bass clarinet octet.CyBrainX
- For me, if you're going to listen to Capt. Beefheart, go full crazy with Trout Mask Replica.CyBrainX
- Yeah, homogenic is perfection, turns me in to an emotional mess. she leant a bit too hard in to concept albums after - you may enjoy this concept though @Nairnkingsteven
- https://www.youtube.…
playlist of all 20 Mark Bell produced tracks after homogenic.kingsteven - @CyBrain, dipped my toe and ended up deep in Zoot Horn Rollo skronk analysis while cross referencing 3 biographies, but these are the two I play in company lolkingsteven
- +1 Stereolab
+1 Canoey_oey - Dots and Loops stays in rotation over here. Great workin and driving music.shellie
- Don't pass up the chance to see Stereolab live if you can. I saw them about a year ago and was blown away.CyBrainX
- Gardener6
- This had to be a challenge for you.utopian
- it was but the remit is 'Sounds That Made Me', so it's not just 9 of my favourite albumsGardener
- GBV! GBV!fooler
- I was late to the GBV party so this was the first one I heard, it blew me away when I saw them live - I got Robert to sign a poster of this sleeve art tooGardener
- I had GBV sign a record and Robert's pen exploded - so the record is mostly gold blob with a barely legible "SORRY ABOUT ALL THE GOLD" also in gold.kingsteven
- piccy?Gardener
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My father had a stroke on Friday; I called an ambulance, which arrived in 5 minutes, and now he’ll have to spend a week under observation—just a couple of weeks after turning 82.
There don’t seem to be any lasting effects, aside from a bit of mental fog, but I think he’ll recover soon.
I really hope they don’t forbid him from riding his bike, because if they do, his decline will be drastic.
- All the best, man!jagara
- Nothing but love to you and your Dad, Felix.PonyBoy
- Godspeed, OB's Dad.
xNairn - Xmort_
- I just got back from the hospital; he’s doing okay—a bit freaked out, but hopefully in a couple of days they’ll figure out the source of the blood clot...OBBTKN
- Thanks a lot guys!OBBTKN
- Indarra eta besarkada bat!Miesfan
- Eskerrik asko!!OBBTKN
- all the best materenderedred
- Sorry to hear - hope no lasting damage for your Dad.stoplying
- All the best!oey_oey
- Get well soon OBBTKN Senior.Longcopylover
- :-(canoe
- Morning_star4
- Nothings Shocking and Mezzanine are top tier for surefooler
- Nothing Shocking - 9th and 10th grade soundtrack! Love CSN. And some David Sylvian on there you intellectual freak!canoe
- Secrets of the Beehive was the soundtrack to a summer with my first lover. I fell for her so hard it hurt. I can’t play the album today without thinking of...Morning_star
- ...her and the adventures we shared. I was 17.Morning_star
- neverscared6
- I love Autechre, Flying Lotus, VU and the Doors. From what I've seen of these, Mezzanine has become Dark Side of the Moon in terms of popularity.CyBrainX
- Nairn1
My 9 Films
My 9 Best Wanks?
- _niko3
Signs your getting old?
Kidney stones FTW!
Fuck, been in pain since 4am went to emergency and confirmed.
Ugh
- Ask if you can keep them - ground down they taste great drizzled over tiramisu.Nairn
- My step dad battles them. I hear it's pain like nothing else. I drove him up and down the Kenai peninsula 2 years ago getting kicked out of Emergency...PonyBoy
- ... Rooms as he's an intolerable prick that actually threatened / scared the shit out of more than one Doc / Nurse. Dude's out of his mind when in kidney pain.PonyBoy
- Chill, PonyDad. They're only trying to help.CyBrainX
- Had them - and they suck. Passed mine into a solo cup and had it analyzed. Cut down on the spinach, they said!stoplying
- hans_glib3
- i dunno, there are so many possibilitieshans_glib
- also: https://www.qbn.com/…hans_glib
- MEUTE! Nicejamesbeat
- skwiotsmith3
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Artwork for Charlie May's Trusted Farms
https://charliemay.bandcamp.com/…“For over thirty years, Charlie has occupied a position that seems increasingly rare in electronic music: the musician’s musician, the person behind the machines, the extra pair of hands in the studio, and quite often, the person responsible for the melody you end up carrying around in your head for weeks on end.
“Alongside Duncan Forbes as Spooky, Charlie helped shape some of the most important electronic music to emerge from the UK in the early ’90s. That partnership would also sow the seeds for one of Sasha’s defining records: the central riff behind Xpander began life in Spooky’s live material, before Charlie brought the idea into the studio with Sasha and helped transform it into one of electronic music’s most enduring anthems.”
