{"id":3298,"date":"2005-05-02T23:46:10","date_gmt":"2005-05-03T06:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/05\/02\/then-it-hit-me\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T14:38:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T22:38:34","slug":"then-it-hit-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/05\/02\/then-it-hit-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Then it hit me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8344,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/12100240&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190121155531\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/12100240\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 09:22:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 09:22:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8345,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.triggermagazine.com\\\/Issue3\\\/columns\\\/10with\\\/thenithitme.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060725173440\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.triggermagazine.com:80\\\/Issue3\\\/columns\\\/10with\\\/thenithitme.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 09:22:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 09:22:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8346,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/12100268&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310094606\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/12100268&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/12100268&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I was reminded of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/12100240\/\" title=\"Then it hit me..., Seattle, WA\">this poster<\/a> tonight when I ran across an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.triggermagazine.com\/Issue3\/columns\/10with\/thenithitme.html\" title=\"Trigger Magazine: 10 With Trigger: Marilyn: Then It Hit Me\">interview with its creator<\/a> (<ins title=\"12\/1\/06 1246\">Update:<\/ins> the original link seems to have died, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050831144141\/http:\/\/www.triggermagazine.com\/Issue3\/columns\/10with\/thenithitme.html\" title=\"Internet Archive: Trigger Magazine: 10 With Trigger: Marilyn: Then It Hit Me\">here&#8217;s the Internet Archive&#8217;s cached version<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/12100268\/\" title=\"Then it hit me..., Seattle, WA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/9\/12100240_269154d697.jpg\" width=\"354\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Then it hit me..., Seattle, WA\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>When did &#8220;it&#8221; (the concept for the poster) hit you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  Marilyn: I can remember exactly when &#8220;it&#8221; hit me. It was late one night after serving tables all afternoon and evening. I got home and I just laid down on the floor. I was exhausted and staring at the ceiling of my room thinking &#8220;what the fuck?&#8221; knowing that I would have to be back at the restaurant the next day and the day after and the day after&#8230;it just starts wearing you out, especially when you&#8217;re not interested in the work. [&#8230;] With a 9-5 your time is completely strangled and sucked up.<\/p>\n<p>  [&#8230;] You go from pre-school to elementary school to middle school to high school and then off to college. Everyone is telling you how great you are going to be along the way like &#8220;Keep up the good work!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Suddenly college is over and you&#8217;re pushed out into the meat-grinder (workforce) with no work experience and often times you just get ground up by employers who aren&#8217;t interested in you as a human being. All they care about is that you wear your name tag, smile, and work for next to nothing. It&#8217;s tricky.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I go through times like this every so often &#8212; generally, right around my birthday, when I roll another year forward without feeling like I&#8217;ve actually progressed anywhere of note. It hasn&#8217;t been hitting me as strongly this year as it has in the past (something I&#8217;m <em>incredibly<\/em> grateful for), but &#8212; without getting into much detail at all &#8212; recent frustrations at work (nothing in particular, just the usual day-to-day frustrations that come with any job) have stirred it up a touch.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing myself and the way I work, chances are that it&#8217;ll fade away again before too terribly long (not entirely coincidentally, probably about the time things settle down on the work front again). Still&#8230;better to recognize that it&#8217;s there and work my way through it than just try to shove it onto my mental back burner where it can sit and simmer unattended until it boils over.<\/p>\n<p>Current plans have Prairie and I moving in together in a few months, and as soon as possible afterwards, I&#8217;ll be taking a break from the 40-hour, 9-5 work week and putting my skinny butt back in school. Right now, I&#8217;m <em>really<\/em> looking forward to being able to do that, and start finding a way to give my brain something more challenging than glorified trained monkey work.<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t happen overnight, of course&#8230;but it&#8217;s long past time that I finally started down on that path. It&#8217;ll be nice when it happens, and it&#8217;s getting closer every day&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FsongTerm=Overture (from West Side Story)%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Overture (from West Side Story)' on the iTMS\">Overture (from West Side Story)<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DGreen, Johnny\/Orchestra%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Green, Johnny\/Orchestra on the iTMS\">Green, Johnny\/Orchestra<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FalbumTerm=Movie Music: The Definitive Performances%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"The Definitive Performances on the iTMS\">Movie Music: The Definitive Performances<\/a><\/em> (1961, 4:40).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THEN IT HIT ME \/ im not going to be famous \/ i wont get to be a rock star \/ im going to be stuck on the payroll \/ doing work that doesnt interest me \/ for a very long time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}