a woman who works on the other side of the office asked me if I would be interested in a weekend job helping her husband sell t-shirts through their website. I met with the guy this past sunday and got the quick and dirty on the operation.
if you've never heard of his company, it may be because it's a fairly recent venture of his. before that, he sold porn online. when he realized that gay porn sold better than straight, he switched to that exclusively. he runs the entire business from his garage. he farms the web for e-mail addresses and adds them to his "subscriber's list," claiming it isn't spam because he includes the url and a button for unsubscribing. but he admits that the reason he needs extra help is that he can't keep up with all the requests to be taken off the mailing list, so he just doesn't do it. he sends mass friend requests for his myspace page. he buys up domain names and then sells them at ridiculous prices. he told me that my work would be the kind of thing I could do from home, coming in only every 2 weeks or so to put in a few hours doing inventory. then when I spoke to him on sunday the story had changed to 6-8 hours every saturday, plus work from home helping to generate more user traffic for his site. for that, though, he has no idea how to quantify the work, and thus no idea how to pay me for it.
he represents business practices which I find obnoxious. morally reprehensible. and STUPID. and yet, I find myself hilariously drawn to the job. to be able to say, from week to week, "hi, I work for Cesar Millan, Inc. and on the weekends I help to sell t-shirts out of some dude's garage."
"... and on the weekends I work for an internet taxidermist selling stuffed warthogs online."
"... and on the weekends I sell toothbrushes out of a van."
I think it would be funny.
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anyone with a spare pair of 3-D glasses laying around ought to boogie on over to NASA's website (http://www.nasa.gov/) where they've just posted brand new photos of our mother star in 3 glorious dimensions. and hang your parents' advice. feel free to sit staring at it for hours on end. it won't hurt you.
if you've never heard of his company, it may be because it's a fairly recent venture of his. before that, he sold porn online. when he realized that gay porn sold better than straight, he switched to that exclusively. he runs the entire business from his garage. he farms the web for e-mail addresses and adds them to his "subscriber's list," claiming it isn't spam because he includes the url and a button for unsubscribing. but he admits that the reason he needs extra help is that he can't keep up with all the requests to be taken off the mailing list, so he just doesn't do it. he sends mass friend requests for his myspace page. he buys up domain names and then sells them at ridiculous prices. he told me that my work would be the kind of thing I could do from home, coming in only every 2 weeks or so to put in a few hours doing inventory. then when I spoke to him on sunday the story had changed to 6-8 hours every saturday, plus work from home helping to generate more user traffic for his site. for that, though, he has no idea how to quantify the work, and thus no idea how to pay me for it.
he represents business practices which I find obnoxious. morally reprehensible. and STUPID. and yet, I find myself hilariously drawn to the job. to be able to say, from week to week, "hi, I work for Cesar Millan, Inc. and on the weekends I help to sell t-shirts out of some dude's garage."
"... and on the weekends I work for an internet taxidermist selling stuffed warthogs online."
"... and on the weekends I sell toothbrushes out of a van."
I think it would be funny.
***
anyone with a spare pair of 3-D glasses laying around ought to boogie on over to NASA's website (http://www.nasa.gov/) where they've just posted brand new photos of our mother star in 3 glorious dimensions. and hang your parents' advice. feel free to sit staring at it for hours on end. it won't hurt you.
I had no idea gay porn sold better than straight porn.
I would so take that job and demand some ridiculous hourly wage for it, plus some kind of perks. like free t-shirts. with gay porn screenshots on them.