Well, 7:30am again.

For the first couple hours at the IRS people ask me how i'm doing. I generally reply that I am "here" again. This is usually met with "I HEAR THAT!" and thumbs up signs or something.

The closer it gets to the end, the less I want to be there. Have I said that before? It's true. I think probably because i'm getting tired of it altogether.

Even if I start working for IAP, when they take over, I'll still be doing the same stuff, you know? And it'll still be at goddamn 8 in the goddamn morning, when intelligent people are still fucking asleep. I HATE dayshift.

In addition to the IAP thing, I've been applying with the IRS again. It's still the same shit, but at least they offer a night shift job at [the city] location. That's kind of good.

I'm really split at this point. If I take this IAP gig I'll be doing the exact (probably) same thing for the exact same pay, working the exact same hours. But at least I won't have to drive to [the city] which I normally avoid like the plague. But i'm not sure how much longer I can continue this. I normally get so bored at a job after a year or so that I start looking for other things. But this one pays so well that i'm not sure I can justify leaving it to go work elsewhere. The IRS isn't any more boring than any of the other jobs i've had, but just the fact that it's the same damn thing every day really starts to wear on me. I think it would be the same even if I was doing something I really enjoyed. After a year, i'm basically finished with the job.

The other thing is that IAP is so shady. I can already tell, based on their hiring system, that it's going to be a lot of craziness once it actually starts. They are talking about how they're going to save so much time by scanning tax documents into a database. Good luck. I hope i'm on the scanning crew. I don't think they realize there are 50 billion documents housed there, and we ship a million out every day, and get a million in every day. I'm also troubled that a lot of what made the job tolerable will be removed. I'm hearing now that cellphones won't be allowed in the building. That's fine, I hate cellphones. But that's only a few steps from my Ipod, and I pretty much need that to continue my employment and to also be sane while doing so.

I'm probably going to stay and work for IAP. The monotony is worth not having to make that drive every day into [the city] and get up even earlier than I do now. I'll have to change the name of this blog. or at least the title graphic. "workin' for haliburton" maybe.