Saturday, February 05, 2005
Contention ...
So today I finally talked to this one friend who wanted to start his own internet business. He had gotten back to the bay area and wanted to know what was up with the project. I hadn't done anything in a month so I let him know that.
He got really pissed at me and threatened to kick me off the 'team', which was such an idle threat anyways because no one else had done anything. At least I had a decent reason not to do anything, I was doing job-training. He kept ranting about how I had cost him tons of money (lie) and how he hoped I got laid off so I could work for him (old joke). It may sound bad but we are friends and I played it off as best I could (i.e. saying I would do stuff later).
I guess he had a bad experience or something but working for someone else IMO is not all that bad. Especially for someone like me who needs a little bit of direction in my life. Sure it's nice to be your own boss but at this point in time it's not practical or feasible for myself. As for my friend, it seems like he really hates the 9-5 job so he'll consider pursuing alternative means of income. Which is fine, in a group of friends we always need an enterprenuer. At most it'll be a side-project for me. Currently I realize that I really do need to occupy my time working the real job, else I'd be goofing off or doing whatever that's not contributing to my own personal growth.
I don't have delusions of grandeur for the project, my own goal would be to produce something workable that people would use and appreciate.
- In other news, I need to stop eating microwaved foods! I'm so lazy to cook tho. So lazy that I'm asking one of my friends to cook tomorrow. She's pretty good at cooking and there's always bunch of us to get rid of her leftovers.
- Also nice to see Steve Young get voted into the Hall of Fame and Michael Irvin denied! I will rub that in Linda's face on Monday (one of my lab partners who is from Dallas). All joking aside, Irvin was a class act on NFL PRIMETIME, too bad they couldn't both get in. ¶ 4:13 PM
He got really pissed at me and threatened to kick me off the 'team', which was such an idle threat anyways because no one else had done anything. At least I had a decent reason not to do anything, I was doing job-training. He kept ranting about how I had cost him tons of money (lie) and how he hoped I got laid off so I could work for him (old joke). It may sound bad but we are friends and I played it off as best I could (i.e. saying I would do stuff later).
I guess he had a bad experience or something but working for someone else IMO is not all that bad. Especially for someone like me who needs a little bit of direction in my life. Sure it's nice to be your own boss but at this point in time it's not practical or feasible for myself. As for my friend, it seems like he really hates the 9-5 job so he'll consider pursuing alternative means of income. Which is fine, in a group of friends we always need an enterprenuer. At most it'll be a side-project for me. Currently I realize that I really do need to occupy my time working the real job, else I'd be goofing off or doing whatever that's not contributing to my own personal growth.
I don't have delusions of grandeur for the project, my own goal would be to produce something workable that people would use and appreciate.
- In other news, I need to stop eating microwaved foods! I'm so lazy to cook tho. So lazy that I'm asking one of my friends to cook tomorrow. She's pretty good at cooking and there's always bunch of us to get rid of her leftovers.
- Also nice to see Steve Young get voted into the Hall of Fame and Michael Irvin denied! I will rub that in Linda's face on Monday (one of my lab partners who is from Dallas). All joking aside, Irvin was a class act on NFL PRIMETIME, too bad they couldn't both get in. ¶ 4:13 PM
