sold around 800 copies of No Dead Time = didn't earn out its advance = didn't make any money on top of the advance = money for supplies came out of the advance, taking almost half of it = tom made like $1/hr for his work on it. ARGH.
I just want Tom to find a day job with more stable hours than Kinko's. Even that wouldn't be so bad if he hadn't been given his current awful schedule and if they didn't like to send him home (IE not pay him) whenever there wasn't much to do. Can't budget that way, it's as bad as being a temp.
I also - and he knows this - really hate the crunch time on the comics zine that he and his buddies put out. The thing is that after everyone does their pieces, he also does layout and stuff... and since they take until the last possible moment to submit their work, the week or so before one has to be out (always before a con) I don't see him, he breaks plans, blah blah blah. Drives me up the wall. But anyway.
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Date: 2005-06-21 08:12 pm (UTC)I just want Tom to find a day job with more stable hours than Kinko's. Even that wouldn't be so bad if he hadn't been given his current awful schedule and if they didn't like to send him home (IE not pay him) whenever there wasn't much to do. Can't budget that way, it's as bad as being a temp.
I also - and he knows this - really hate the crunch time on the comics zine that he and his buddies put out. The thing is that after everyone does their pieces, he also does layout and stuff... and since they take until the last possible moment to submit their work, the week or so before one has to be out (always before a con) I don't see him, he breaks plans, blah blah blah. Drives me up the wall. But anyway.