Worked at TCU as one gig for the past 3–4 months. Resigned on Friday. Here’s the general background of the story, for those who care.
Long backstory made short
I didn’t move to Fort Worth until 2014. I primarily knew of TCU from the 2009 Fiesta Bowl and the 2010 Rose Bowl. When I moved here, I lived 1.7 miles down the hill from the university, next to a bar called Woodshed, where I’ve spent about $50,000 for no real reason. I started to meet some people associated with the university. I met a few staff, some alums, etc. I wouldn’t say I always loved the people I met from there, but I got to have an appreciation for it a little bit. My career has been a weird, winding mess of bullshit give or take, so since I’ve been here I had applied to TCU jobs maybe 4–5 times. I finally grabbed one last May/June. “Marketing copywriter.”
At the same time, I was talking to this company called RobotLab in Southlake, which is about 25 minutes from me — more with traffic. That guy wanted me to come in every day and sit there until 5, even though there definitely wasn’t enough work to do. I found it weird that a tech company was chasing seat time post-pandemic (in-pandemic), and I didn’t want to spend that much on gas. So, I took this TCU gig.
I took it kinda hesitantly because I could tell from the interviews that I probably wouldn’t get…
