I was hired as a web designer for a tech magazine. However, like a day after I started, the parent company outsourced the web design to a company that did it for all the magazines they ran. They tried to switch me over to a writer. However, my boss didn't like my writing but would not give me any direction on what he was looking for. Completely aimless writing shit I knew nothing about working for a guy who knew nothing about being a boss. What a tool.

He called me six weeks after I started and said you can either quit or be fired. I took the option that gave me two severance checks and unemployment. I started another job a month later. Been there for almost six years.

If there was one good thing to come of that first job, it was taking the train into Chicago every day. That's awesome. Then walking from the station a little over a mile to where my office was. I lost 25 pounds in those six weeks and wasn't even trying.