adapted for/featured in book #34
I once worked a shitty, hourly-rate job for a big company in a tall building doing admin-assistant stuff like making copies.
I started this job part-time just as I went back to school for graphic design.
One day someone very high up in the company asked if I could redesign some rudimentary safety schematics.
At the time, I had never used Photoshop or any other design program, didn't own a computer of my own and beyond "liking to draw" had no graphic design qualifications to speak of.
So naturally I set out on this task using Microsoft Word.
Fast forward a couple weeks and dude fucking loves my Microsoft Word diagrams.
Soon thereafter I am promoted to a position with its own office, nameplate, and more money/benefits than I've ever had. 401K, dental, all that shit.
This is all because I randomly made a picture using Microsoft Word.
I am now in my mid-30s and I've still never seen money like this.
I went from working in liquor stores and delivering pizza to a job on the 23rd floor with a view because of a Microsoft Word drawing.
Needless to say I hated the new job because I had to give speeches to men on tugboats about the benefits of sleep and their REM cycles.
If the job had only involved making drawings in Microsoft Word I might still be there today.
Sometime after I quit one of the tugboats fucked up and crashed a barge into a duck boat on the Delaware River, killing a few Turkish tourists.
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