Last day...

[Glenn Scheper]

I am a Senior Software Engineer.
And that is because, at our company touchy-feelie in Ohai,
I cried before the whole company that they wanted to rebrand me
with a lesser title. Important, you see, as I am a college drop-out.

PRAISE Disability Insurance! I just saw my four-page original form
in the doctor's folder today, next to my CA disability paperwork.
Perhaps they will be so kind as to transmit it before I am centsless.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Elainemmbell at aol.com 
  To: david.casseres at gmail.com ; hmusikar at speakeasy.net 
  Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org 
  Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 11:37 AM
  Subject: Re: Last day...


  David & Henry et al.,

  Yes, I really am a tech writer, but I also double as a marketing writer so on the days I'm doing the salesy stuff I write pink.  Such is today.  My assignment is to write a persuasive sales letter touting the benefits of individual (expensive) disability insurance to various niche markets on which some other contractor has done the "research".  And today's market is SOFTWARE ENGINEERS! 
  I really didn't need to read her research... I kind of know the field.  

  In my non-remote assignments I am usually embedded with the IT team, much like being embedded in the military if you're a journalist--you get to learn the particulars of their wars, as well as suffer many of their discomforts.  And when it's a really good gig you sometimes get to swim in the Sheik's pool.  With nerds.

  So who else lurking out there makes his/her living this way?  Surely David & Henry & I are not the only ones...  What does Glenn do?  And there's no way that Joe Allonby is the only one of us who has a band (yes, I have a band, sort of)...
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