Tech Eye: The best of jobs, the worst of jobs
Sadly, the world is filled with all sorts of horrific, pestilence-inducing professions. One of Techeye's best friends, for example, once worked as a wet-nurse in Madagascar - we've never gotten the full story out of him, but it apparently involves a deranged zoologist and a litter of malagasy civets. He's a sewer diver now and says he's suffering from eight kinds of rot, but enjoys the general lack of civets.
We've been pretty lucky in terms of work experience. In addition to serving as gadget gourmet and part-time inventor (or "destroyer of innocent, once-useful objects," as our wench puts it), Techeye has tried literally tens of diverse professions, from pet masseur to funeral-clothing model. We also served for a time as chief roadie for Yanni, doyen of contemporary-instrumental music, an experience both wallet-enriching and spiritually gangrenous.
To be honest, the only occupation we've truly hated so far was serving as a fry-cook for a seafood restaurant. Even our stint as a test subject for "La Academia de Odontologia en México" was better. There's just something about boiling grease which - if you stand near it for 0.004 or more seconds - permeates the clothing, hair, vital organs and other hard to reach places, and not in a good way.
Things at our current job are tolerable, we can say, but not perfect (thankfully our addle-brained boss never bothers to read this). One thing we'd like to improve on, for instance, is the office's absolute lack of a Wii, Nintendo's entry in the current video-game console war. If you've got any Nintendo Gamecube games, the Wii is fully backwards compatible with them (which sounded enticingly naughty when we first heard it) and it can be wirelessly connected to the Nintendo DS.
One of the best parts of the Wii is its wireless controller, the Wii remote, which is movement sensitive and whose use leads to all manner of frantic, undignified gesticulation. The console is good for all ages and costs around zł.1,000. As with most things though, it's better to play with a friend than with yourself.
