Takin’ Care of Business (The SI FAQ)

You get up every morning

From your alarm clock’s warning

Take the 8:15 into the city

There’s a whistle up above

And people pushin’, people shovin’

And the girls who try to look pretty

And if your train’s on time

You can get to work by nine

And start your slaving job to get your pay

If you ever get annoyed

Look at me I’m self-employed

I love to work at nothing all day

And I’ll be …

Taking care of business, every day

Taking care of business, every way

I’ll be taking care of business, it’s all mine

Taking care of business and working overtime

Work out!

If it were as easy as fishin’

You could be a musician

If you could make sounds loud or mellow

Get a second-hand guitar

Chances are you’ll go far

If you get in with the right bunch of fellows

People see you having fun

Just a-lying in the sun

Tell them that you like it this way

It’s the work that we avoid

And we’re all self-employed

We love to work at nothing all day

And we’ll be …

Taking care of business, every day

Taking care of business, every way

We’ll be taking care of business, it’s all mine

Taking care of business and working overtime

Work out!

Take good care of my business

When I’m away, every day, whoo!

Takin’ Care of Business
  by Randy Bachman, Bachman-Turner Overdrive

As the blog continues to grow in readership and popularity, the pace of requests increase. As such, I thought it would be a good time to put together a FAQ which covers, among other things, SI’s product and service review policies, publishing guidelines, book review requirements, and event attendance, coverage, speaking and promotion policies.

Here are the questions that I have answered. If you have any additional questions you’d like answered, send them along and I will consider adding them to future revisions of the FAQ (which will always be accessible off of the sidebar).

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