I Can Only Go Up From Here

A New Hampshire Yankee in Los Angeles. Will Oggy find fame and Fortune? Will Oggy get his car to run? Will Oggy even find a job? Probably not, but won't it be funny to read about how close he gets?

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Monday, August 18, 2008

jobs

As Oggy's days in L.A. come to a close he would like to list the jobs he has had here. It should be immediately obvious why he is leaving after you read the list:

Voice Recognition software - Oggy had to pretend he was a native Californian so the accent would be accurate for this region. He said, "Cat...Dog...Remote...fist...lively.." into a microphone over and over.

Crystal Ballroom stage - some function at the Beverly Hills hotel.

Installed shelves in a dental college in Palms.

Scraped up metal shavings from a Boeing airplane manufacturing warehouse.

Beyond Neon - covered an entire room in glowing latex/vinyl for a party

Removed broken toys from a KB toy store.

unload medical refrigerator at UCLA

Unload a cashier/bar at Urban outfitter in westwood

Gardening at Aldensgate retreat in Pacific palisades


Servepro in paso robles estates moving heaters and vinyl from water damaged houses

Shelves in a sephora in manhattan beach

Contruction at new dorms in UCLA. A prevailing wage gig at $20+/hr. ended badly.

Kitchen fixtures at Toninos in Westwood.

Charlie Lyons- installed a projector at his house. He owns a NHL team.

Universal City - working at city walk building a video game store. wheelbarrowing dirt.

Digging a trench at new CVS foundation in westwood

renovating a Sunglasses Hut in Santa Monica

KPMG- downtown. ground zero. insurance co. moving boxes of papers from one place to another. absolutely pointless waste of time. Like Hell, except with florescent lighting.

moving out furniture from LMU.

Digging trenches at Ralphs on Lincoln.

Installing earthquake l brackets on files in Century City.

Unloading sliding glass doors in Bel Air.

Ralphs - electrical helper

staples on Lincoln. installing a copy center. "Dog, help with this motherfucker."

Manpower - westwood gateway moving files

Scooter selection - writing ad copy for scooters and mini bikes.

DHL - airport moving boxes

paramount studios - strike for x-mas party driving booze from North Hollywood.

organizing carpet samples and vacuuming. west l.a.

filling binders in santa monica. got violently sick from mcdonalds chicken burger. vomited at work and in the parking lot, sweating and explosive shits. walked out and went home.

organizing a trailer full of gadgets in santa monica

building furniture at a Target

Paramount studios - production catering

Grey world wide - moving office furniture

Fulltone music- assembling electronics

there were probably other that Oggy has repressed. Like the title says, Oggy can only go up from here.