Wow... This proved to be the time-waster-of-the-week so far here.

From Astrophysics to Mosquitoes
From Mongol Empire to Benzine
From Love to Planck Constant

Thanks to this (and a couple of beers at lunch), I'm highhandedly responsible to a couple of percentage points of productivity lost this afternoon.

We have a toll free line, and every stop has a "Stop number". You punch that in and get the next three stops. But the best tool IMO is the STM (Société de Transport de Montréal) site, which, although doing what Google also does, does it with more precision. http://www2.stm.info/taz/index.php?lng=en Pretty cool to factor in holidays

I have a diploma in Arts & Cinematographic Studies.

I am now a programmer in the largest telecom company in Canada (yes, the one that got close to being bought, but then didn't).

Go figure.

Point is, as said often enough, just practice doing anything a job, any job requires: self-reliance, adaptability, self-imporvement, self-put-a-characteristic-here.

I just have six LCDs on a single computer at home, and I can tell you, from video editing or simple web, Word, Excel and Photoshop browsing, you can unleash the drag-and-drop to its full potential. Yeah, it feels I'm a teleworker from NASA of CSIS, but hey, it's quite cool to have that much screen real estate. At work, I have three CRTs, each hooked to their respective computer (linked by switch box). My job involves loads of automated work using macros. Nobody asked questions, as I output the work value of 3+ employees, so I guess they prefer keeping me and my hardware rather than adding somebody to the payroll. It's pretty neat to just hang there while the three screens work all by themselves, putting your hand behind your head, saying to inquisitive people: "I'm working! Look at my screens!"