I have a job!

[taylweaver]

Don't know where, or precisely what I will be doing. Presumably, pull-out services somewhere in Brooklyn. But I start on the 6th.

Which is a good thing.

And I also called Verizon to get my phone line moved. I think I will not have them install a jack for me. Either I will ask mysticengineer to help me install a new jack myself, or I will just buy a reeeeally long, white phone cord and snake it around the wall into my bedroom. It just isn't worth the $169 that they would want to charge me for sending a fat guy who sweats a lot and says he is having trouble breathing just from the exertion of stapling in the phone wires. Plus, I would have to wait around my apartment for the guy.

Anyway, my phone will be moved to the new number as of Wednesday.

But I am getting ahead of myself - need to move first. (Monday - wanna help?)

Still, it is great when everything starts coming together.

Also, last night, my sister called, and was asking about the job. When I asked why she was calling, she explained that my mom wanted to know if I had heard yet, but didn't want to bother me. For some reason, mbarr found this to be rather entertaining. As it turns out, though, this was a smart move on my mom's part - talking to her about it this morning (back when I didn't have a job yet) was much more stressful than talking to my sister.

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I don't know jack about phones

[mysticengineer.livejournal.com]

I've never installed a phone jack.
What I have done is taken an existing jack and figured out which wires to connect in order to have the correct line connected to that room.
Thanks for thinking I can do it, though.

Now, if you need anything soldered...

Re: I don't know jack about phones

[taylwoven.livejournal.com]

I didn't say you knew anything about them... but you also didn't know anything about connecting an existing phone jack before you looked online and tried it out - so I am confident that you could manage the same thing with a new phone jack and howstuffworks.com or something. Either that, or you could stand there being supportive while I try to figure it out...

And if I need anything soldered, I will ask to borrow your soldering iron - that, I know how to use. (It's amazing how much one can learn while working with stained glass...)

Re: I don't know jack about phones

[mysticengineer.livejournal.com]

Uh, I think you slipped with the username for your comment.
And of course I'll stand there being supportive (or laughing my head off, whichever seems more appropriate at the time).

Re: I don't know jack about phones

[taylweaver.livejournal.com]

Oops. Yeah, it's hard to keep track of who I'm logged in as. Thanks.