I. R. ManagerDog!

[pyesetz]

Yup, I'm a businessdog now!  I just finished paying my employees workers one-and-only subcontractor.  shiver_raccoon should get the money by tomorrow.

When I told one of the homeschooling moms that my payroll consists of going to my bank's website and pressing some buttons, she asked: "Is that legal?"  I've gotten that before, when I tell people that my job consists of sitting in my basement and pressing buttons on my computer, then money magically shows up in my chequing account.  Because of the paranoia that the mass media churns up about "hackers" in order to sell their advertising, a lot of people assume that any kind of electronic transaction that they are not personally familiar with must be a criminal activity.

No, the money magically appears because "Mr. Bear" tells his bank to take the money out of his pocket and put it into mine.  The money being sent to Shiver was withdrawn from my account.  There's a lovely audit trail and everything!

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Excellent!

[shiver-raccoon.livejournal.com]

Yup, money received today (although the transaction was dated yesterday). Now I can buy my noms, instead of knocking over the neighbourhood garbage pails :-)

Hmmm... I just visited a friend who owns a cattle farm; his job is to help ensure that people don't starve. My job is to change the colour of certain pixels on my monitor from black to white (and vice versa), so that people can visit a website and have the colours on their monitor changed. Yeah, that's a skill that'll be really useful when society collapses :-)