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The League of Ordinary Ladies, Part Two
Previously: While You Were in the Shower at 4 a.m. …
Esther Werdiger has a weekly podcast and a rich internet life, but also a job in Jerusalem.
Virtual assistants!!! Is this a job created by the 4-hour work week phenomenon? (And it's gotta be better than phone sex work, right?)
\These are awesome. LOL!!
@ThundaCunt Isn't this an awesome series?
now I want to drop out of grad school and become a virtual assistant. no joke.
OMG the food one. That happens to me more often than I'd like to admit.
@jen325 it's basically my entire life.
@jen325 I just linked this to someone going "Oh man, the third one. The thiiiiiiiiiiiird oooooooone!"
I want the food one on a shirt that I'd wear while eating and doing nothing with my life.
Yupppp, that's pretty much me on a daily basis. My new job is SO BORING. I'm of course happy to have a job, although only 25 hours a week so I'm still broke as a joke. I kind of had to settle on something I didn't want after a long string of job-related heartbreaks. My self-doubt is like clockwork when I'm in the office.
Thoughts throughout my day:
9am: Ok, good job. You made it here another day. (On Facebook)
10am: I drink too much coffee. I fucking love coffee, but someday I will die of it and my teeth will look gross when I do. (On Hairpin)
11am: Oh god, I have to be here 5 more hours. (On Gawker)
12pm: I can't fucking wait to eat lunch. Life will be better then. (On ONTD)
1pm: Lunch was good. My shoulder hurts. This job is crippling me. But I didn't go to that yoga class last night. I am a terrible person. (On Facebook, looking at people I went to middle school with)
2pm: Wouldn't it be great if I could use this time productively? It's a luxury to have time to think at work! Maybe I should learn another language (On Amazon)
3pm: Reading Gawker/Hairpin/Cracked/Weird serial killer stories
4pm: One more hour. I can do this. My job for the rest of the day is to be a better person, no matter how badly I want to sit with a glass of wine and watch a movie. (Finally responding to that email from my mom)
5pm: Ok, good job. You made it through another day. I should stop by Trader Joes on the way home, I heard they have a good Cabernet on sale.
@momentisaflower try it at 40 hours a week. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO I AM ANYMORE.
Also: I'm so glad* I'm not alone and that someone else can so easily describe my day EXACTLY.
*not the correct word.
@momentisaflower what is it about answering emails from one's mother? I put that off forever.
@momentisaflower very similar to my day as well (though add in nymag.com Vulture page)
My mom: You seem to know a lot about pop culture. Do you ever do work?
@JoanTition AHHHH one of the WORST things I found out when I became an adult was that most jobs are nothing but life sentences of tedious drudgery for faceless corporations overseen by weaselly bohunks for the sake of whiny, rude clients who are NEVER SATISFIED. I was like, THIS IS WHAT I WAS WAITING FOR? I want to go back to American Girl dolls and naptime.
@momentisaflower Ugh, this is basically my exact daily schedule, too. There is nothing for me to do and I'm just waiting for someone to figure it out and then fire me. I can't handle all this stress!
@momentisaflower Yup, this is an exact, to-the-minute description of my life at the job i had two summers ago. This summer was [not] coincidentally the summer I truly understood the dad's character in American Beauty. On the plus side, outside of work I appeared so on-the-ball and worldly because there was not a single article on nytimes.com that I had not read.
Yeah, that's why I steer clear of wine festivals. And Oktoberfest. And feel a slight swell of fear any time my housemates suggest throwing a party.
I love this series. The food one, yes, everyday of my life.
I am tots in love with this!
Ooofff, that last one hit a little too close to home.