Mom (accountant): so I was looking at your income for 2011, it\u2019s uh\u2026<\/p>\n
Me: Yeah, yeah\u2026 I know. <\/p>\n
Mom: So, what\u2019s happening?<\/p>\n
Me: Well the situation is pretty bad, as you know.<\/p>\n
Mom: Yes, only 2% of my clients are paying taxes on benefit, worst ever.<\/p>\n
Me: Wow.<\/p>\n
Mom: So are you searching? I mean I know you work on some stuff\u2026<\/p>\n
Me: Yes, it\u2019s tough companies are in trouble, they close or lose money or certainly don\u2019t hire. It\u2019s all about 4 or 6 months contracts at the very best.<\/p>\n
Mom: Are you searching in the US?<\/p>\n
Me: Yes, first and foremost. But it\u2019s not great there either. I applied for a great position for a great company where I could do a great job but you know, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
Mom: I see.<\/p>\n
Me: Sigh.<\/p>\n
Mom: And uh, do you plan to do something else than sound in games or?<\/p>\n
Me: You mean joining dad and my sister to do some woodworking? Ha, I don\u2019t know I\u2019m not against completely switching careers but it\u2019s tough, I want to apply what I learned in twelve years, at the end ditching the all thing when I know it\u2019s right here\u2026 But yeah, I know what you mean.<\/p>\n
Mom: Because you know\u2026<\/p>\n
Me: Yeah mom\u2026 I do.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s such a gap between gen X and boomers, it\u2019s really tough to have sane conversations without the classic \u201cyou don\u2019t know SHIT\u201d<\/em> ending them.<\/p>\n The funny thing is she never knew unemployment, she started her own accounting company only after a couple of years at a bigger firm and never stopped since. I always knew unemployment even before working and I only have been able to start my own thing after 9 years, when Sarkozy did something that fucking everybody could have done way earlier but I digress. My mom uses a ten or fifteen year old accounting software and support ends this year. She told me she won\u2019t change her old habits, they are working! I am so used to learn new software it\u2019s a second nature for a game developer. And she\u2019s asking me if I could forget about knowing how to produce a full sound spectrum from blips to soundtracks applied to software, game and UX design and start something else, are you shitting me right now. No, I can\u2019t. I love it, it\u2019s deep I\u2019m good at it and games and apps are too huge to feel that I should give up because my timing in this world was worse than my mom\u2019s. That\u2019s not cool.<\/p>\n See you on Sunday mom, and thanks in advance for the champagne we will have for my 33.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mom (accountant): so I was looking at your income for 2011, it\u2019s uh\u2026 Me: Yeah, yeah\u2026 I know. Mom: So, what\u2019s happening? Me: Well the situation is pretty bad, as you know. Mom: Yes, only 2% of my clients are paying taxes on benefit, worst ever. Me: Wow. Mom: So are you searching? I mean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}