I only picked up a few of the more colorful words she screamed out, but what I LOVE about this is how he’s got that amazingly composed look of amusement on his face, the whole time.
She looks like she’s a great sport about the whole thing, too. :)
As anyone with a less-than-enthusiastic spouse can attest, getting your better half in the passenger seat during a hard track flogging takes the kind of intestinal fortitude normally reserved for Lutz’s PR team. Apparently, it doesn’t get any easier even if you’ve got some Formula One experience.
Hit the jump to watch former F1 ace Riccardo Patrese take his rather attractive wife for a Sunday spin in a Honda Civic Type-R, complete with plenty of Italian expicitives and one positively hilarious “No no no no NO NO NO NO!”
I have to choose between two (main) job prospects.
The first choice seems to be a laid back, small company in a smaller city
with a better commute. Here’s the breakdown:
The pay’s the same as the last place I was at, but not as good as my all-time high (which will understandably take a while to reach, again). It’s enough money, but I’d like to actually start getting ahead a bit and stop being so irresponsible w/ my spending. It’s been fun being a man-child for so many years, but I want to start getting things in order.
The work is more technical, and I’d be working with some
very contemporary technologies (Ruby on Rails, CentOS for servers, my choice of
Mac/Linux workstations.
The work this company does is meaningful in the sense that it’s contributing to humanity and helping the scientific community.
As a small,
privately-owned company that’s been around a short while, there’s a little bit of
comfort that they’ve got some stability, but there’s still some risk involved. Having chased my passions in the past, I’ve decided that the risk/reward ratio is just not as important to me as it used to be.
I like the city this company’s in. It’s very down to earth, pretty laid back and I’m very familiar with it.
I’d have to drive to work — there public transportation in this city’s kinda lame. Parking is free, at least. The cost of a week of commuting is about $32, based on current fuel prices.
This company’s about 1/2 the size of the last one I worked at, which is to say that it’s very small. At the age of 23, I led a bigger division of men on the first ship I was on. Being able to know everyone at a company is a nice work environment.
As an added bonus, it’s very convenient to pick up a certain special someone ;)
The second job is in the much bigger city to my south. Let’s see how it compares:
I’d be working for a contractor at a huge govt agency.
The position is in charge of the messaging and collaboration teams.
The pay is really decent.
The teams are very highly competent.
The technology they use is something I’m very good at and happen to really like, but it’s not very modern.
The commute would suck balls, but I’d take the public transportation. $71/week to use public transportation, or $147 ($57 in fuel, and $90 in parking) to drive. Wow, really? Is it that much more to commute? That works out to nearly $4k annually! Yikes. Anyway.
I’d be getting my foot in the door for some future govt positions, which means higher job security.
I’d never get to know everyone at the govt job, which is kind of a bummer.
Way more conservative environment.
Beauracracy.
Office politics.
Union.
Performance evaluation writing.
Counseling.
Blackberry. In addition to having my iPhone. Bleh.
@edbrill you can ask to be reseated if there's room. Nothing really to be done about inconsiderate amount of perfume, though in reply to edbrill1 day ago
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