Fringe Benefits of My Job

Most of my readers know that I am not a full-time blogger. To the rest of you, it should be obvious from the mediocre quality of my posts!
What I do full time is engineer. I work for a non-profit research institute and we build some pretty kick-ass stuff.

Being a non-profit, we don't exactly get yearly bonuses. That's fine though, because we have a huge, sometimes-bottomless-seeming coffer of overhead money we can politely ask our bosses to spend on our behalf. I might not get a $300 check in the mail for my hard work...but when I suggested to my boss that our research efforts might be better served if we spent $300 and bought this book, this book, and this book...he had cleared me to buy them on overhead before I had finished the sentence.


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