Fat Girl Productions

I currently live in Atlanta right now and have been working for Apple since October.

I moved to Atlanta because I thought I would have a job at Radical Axis, an animation studio here that does a lot of the Adult Swim shows like Aqua Teen Hunger Force. They also did Comedy Central's Freakshow, which really built up the studio. '07 came and they put a bunch of people on hiatus in the spring when I moved up here. That made me last in the pecking order.

I waited and waited for them to hire me, kind of stupid I know but I had a bunch of friends that worked there so I thought I had an in. After a few months and a cheesesteak delivery job, I started selling ad space in a new hispanic yellow page book called, Seccion Amarilla. It's a great book but nobody wants to advertise with them because they are new. That lasted about two weeks before I left because it wasn't really what I wanted to do, and they would have let me go if I didn't sell anything soon and I didn't want to be fired from a company my Dad made (Seccion Amarilla L.L.C. an American spin off of the Seccion Amarilla which dominates a lot of central America).

I decided I would rather do Motion Graphics instead of Animation, because I only really wanted to lip sync that characters anyway. It's a tiny niche, but I'm good at it. Unfortunately it's way too small of a niche for Atlanta. I applied to a great company called R!OT and that interview and decision process lasted 6 weeks. They ended up going with their intern (who had the same skill level as me) just because he interned there and I didn't. I wasn't too upset. They made the right call. If I interned somewhere and didn't get a job offer I would have been super pissed.

It was at that point that Britt, my fiance who moved to Hotlanta against her will, decided to move back to Austin. She hadn't heard back from Pink Magazine and that was the last straw. The next day we were planning our move when Pink called and said she got the job.

Crap.

Now I had to find a job here. I called a bunch of other Motion Graphics houses and they weren't hiring. The job market here sucks. I applied to Apple and thought, what the hell, I know it's retail but I love their stuff. I couldn't believe I got hired. I didn't feel too comfortable talking shop about processor speed and video cards, but I definitely got better at it.

Britt doesn't enjoy working at Pink because it's not a healthy environment and I'll leave it at that. We're getting married in March and have to move out of this house in April so we decided to leave earlier. I think we might be out of here by March 1st. I can transfer with Apple (although technically I have to quit then re-apply to another store because of the way retail is and how many people do they need etc). I randomly applied to something Britt forwarded me through UT Access, Texas' Alumni job posting site. Red 5 Games was calling for trivia writers and I applied. I asked if I was overqualified because I had my Masters of Fine Arts in Animation. They said no. (I had been turned down before because of that reason...which is why I'm not a glass blowing apprentice). I sent in my stuff on Sunday, they called me and had a first interview on Thursday and by Friday afternoon (literally 26 hours later) they sent me a test to see how I write trivia questions. I love writing and its what I do best, so I thought it would be worth applying for and it has been so far.

I was against Austin when I lived there because I had a super unhealthy relationship that lasted way too long and everything about West Campus and Downtown reminded me of her and bad times. When I went there in October I loved it. It felt like home. I just got back this morning from another 4 day excursion of wedding stuff and that only solidified my desire to be there. So I know I owed this site a serious update.

I have to bounce because I still have a few more questions to write for Red 5 but I will let you know what's going on for sure.

Well, I didn't get the trivia job.

That ok. Over the last couple days I've been thinking about how much I like Apple and how much I would miss it. Yes, I certainly won't miss the assholes that come in and treat you like you're less than a human just because you asked them if you needed help (that happened the other day and I went in the back and flew off the handle...you would have thought I asked the girl to rape and murder her whole family...yes I'm still a little pissed about it). Aside from dealing with stolen credit cards, people who complain that we don't have the iPhone cases they want and the rare customer who comes in "just to see if we have PC software" then is upset that we don't sell it, I generally like what I do. Of course there are people that I wouldn't mind never working with/talking to ever again, but they are one person in the grand scheme of things. And I refuse to let them ruin my total experience. Apple is, by far, the greatest company I have worked for to date. The things I have learned there I will certainly bring with me to other jobs. Except the discount. And it hurts everytime I think about it.

I only have a few more days left before I leave on Saturday and I'm a little sad to go. I did get a full time transfer to Austin's Barton Creek Store. I start February 9th, but I am moving there a week before that to get the house stuff all settled. Britt and the dogs are coming a few days after me.

To celebrate my last day at Northpoint, a group of my coworkers took me to a drag show at a gay bar. I had way too much to drink which snuck up on me, to the point where the concrete snuck up on me. Ehh, it's just another funny story to tell at my funeral. I believe life is worth living, live it for the story.

Perhaps I'll have a page titled "Stories for my Wake," where I regale you with stories that should never die.