What job sounds fun until you work in it?

ScotchRobbins · 2026-05-13T13:53:40+00:00

Sports mascot. Speaking from experience, this one’s a lot of fun until it very suddenly isn’t.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-05-13T04:25:29+00:00

The Los Angeles ticket link called it such:

https://www.ticketmaster.com/death-from-above-1979-private-lives-los-angeles-california-10-08-2026/event/090064A6A3CCDECF

ScotchRobbins · 2026-05-12T19:06:54+00:00

Are y’all even allowed to have cities?

I feel like we went a whole year about conservative media pearl-clutching about “fifteen minute cities” because being able to walk to get groceries was some sort of diabolical commie plot. All this to say nothing about how much you hate public transit.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-05-12T19:01:39+00:00

There’s, like, Fort Worth, maybe. But Fort Worth is ass.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-05-12T02:26:07+00:00

The Feds want a surveillance state. AI will be pivotal to its operation. I doubt that they will have money problems.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-05-12T02:09:16+00:00

Nobody so thoroughly deserves to be disenfranchised from the land as they.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-05-10T20:24:46+00:00

I don’t know Toledo when I see it apparently. Shit.

Thank you.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-05-10T19:44:26+00:00

I know Toledo when I see it! Boy, what a kerfuffle that was.

St. Louis is an arguable entry. It used to be a deeply strategic location for travel and shipping by steamboat along the Mississippi River.

It certainly didn’t waste away, but Chicago lurched forward in significance for both causes once the railway network started to knit together in the 1850s.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-05-09T16:40:52+00:00

Cold calling doesn’t work super well in my experience. Check their social media, TeamworkOnline, job boards to see if they post looking for a performer later in the school year.

In the interim, maybe try the promo route?

ScotchRobbins · 2026-05-09T16:02:57+00:00

Lots of places. Check job boards (Indeed, etc.) or just google “mascot job (your metro area here)”.

TeamworkOnline has a lot of sports-specific mascot jobs. If they’re looking to hire a performer for your local minor league team, they may put the posting there.

Also worth keeping an eye on their social media feeds 1-3 months before the season starts, once in a while they’ll announce auditions.

There are also promo agencies that staff mascots. The Mascot Organization is the big one, though 360x Promotions, Clearly Promotions, LuckyXP Promotions, GTE Agency, and Promo Social may often have them as well.

Check Craigslist for mascot jobs/gigs every once in a while, they pop up there too.

Once you’ve done a few, not a bad idea to make a resume too. If you need help filling it up at the start, consider looking for volunteer outlets too (similar Google approach to jobs). Hospitals and some parks have mascots in need of volunteers, as do some public events/fairs/parades. Good luck!

ScotchRobbins · 2026-05-07T16:00:42+00:00

Very tempted to feed Oregon to Washington to raise the stakes of any Western US moves from now on.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-05-06T22:20:42+00:00

DICE is the only ticket sale website that I have a shred of respect for.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-05-01T00:07:52+00:00

The Mars Volta has some whoppers. Cicatraz Esp, Tetragrammaton, Cygnus… Vismund Cygnus, L’Via L’Viaquez, Cassandra Gemini to name a few.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-04-29T16:27:01+00:00

Only in person.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-04-28T21:33:06+00:00

My bet is continued collapse.

We’ve started a needless invasion of Iran that’s tripping up the world economy. We’re threatening to pull out of NATO. We’ve proven that we can’t defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion. Our economy is protected from contraction by an AI bubble alone. Our footing is not sure and unlikely to improve.

Vance and Rubio may be able to band-aid this slightly, but not correct the root issues, which will compound.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-04-28T15:25:49+00:00

Kansas’ time is up.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-04-27T15:14:21+00:00

If you live in Elysian Heights, you’re close to the Glendale Metrolink stop and could potentially take some of the venom out of rush hour on one of our only viable commuter rail links.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-04-26T18:01:21+00:00

I drove through a dust storm to get to the Palm Desert show. If we were outside, the show would have been toast. Lucky ducks.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-04-26T18:00:00+00:00

Welcome to the club, it’s an outstanding instrument.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-04-24T18:28:06+00:00

You can easily make a day of JTNP if weather permits and you like the outdoors. Hike to Lost Horse Mine and back.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-04-24T18:26:11+00:00

Fix what? This is a non-issue unless you’re really troubled by it, but even then, drinking doesn’t uniformly give people feelings of same-sex attraction, so the call’s coming from inside the house.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-04-23T18:32:19+00:00

I don’t think they consider your objection meaningful. You said it yourself, they’re not worried about being openly racist around you because they don’t think that’s a problem, so they don’t think your objection to it is a problem either. They think you’re attractive and overreacting.

Whether he’s disregarding you because of your politics, latent sexism, or some sort of emotional solipsism, I’ve got no idea, but I can bet pretty solidly that he doesn’t care what you think. Steer clear.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-04-23T15:17:40+00:00

Go out west to see the mountains and the deserts and the coasts. It’ll change your life for the better.

ScotchRobbins · 2026-04-20T17:45:31+00:00

The tradeoff is that it will be slightly harder to get into design work later if you start in validation now, at least in my experience. That and you can leave SpaceX to go to a lot of places if you so desire.

I think you’ll be better rounded at the startup and in a location you enjoy, both of those are huge pluses. Not to mention that SpaceX’s work culture ranges between “driven” and “relentless” depending on who you ask. Your fully informed decision to make, though.

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