Well, going to college next week. No more free time, which means that as of last night I have joined the proud ranks of the unemployed. I guess that means I have to pay overdue fines now. They let me keep the nametag, though, so I get to run around impersonating a government employee!
Thus ends my first job. Onward!
Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :
Onward, indeed. Enjoy the break. What are you going to study?
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
You BUM, get a job. Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
quote:Originally posted by Grokca: You BUM, get a job.
Conservative Speak. *ROTFL*
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Today I also joined the ranks of the employment-challanged... When the owners asked that I lie to the customers I felt it was time to say good bye...
It is standard policy for them to lie to the customers... I know a place that is now hiring...
Posted by The Mike Who Would Be Captain (Member # 709) on :
I will gladly lie to customers in exchange for money! Sign me up!
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
You're not working just 'caxuse you're going to school? *scoffs* I'm going to school full time in the fall, AND still working both of my jobs.... granted, I'm cutting down to 45-50 hours a week, but I still need to work to survive
Must be nice to have parents that help pay for things
~LOA
Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :
You're lucky you even had jobs in the first place. No one has hired me since the beginning of the year. Hell, every time I apply for something, I get passed over in one way or another. And this has been going back for about 6 or so years.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Whatever you do, no matter hard hard financially you may fall, do not (I repeat: do not!) work in the residence halls! IT WILL EAT YOUR SOUL!
Posted by StarFire (Member # 748) on :
quote:Originally posted by Siegfried: Whatever you do, no matter hard hard financially you may fall, do not (I repeat: do not!) work in the residence halls! IT WILL EAT YOUR SOUL!
So will Wal-Mart. Trust me on this.
Today, I'm headed downtown for my interview, working the the MO Dept of Probation and Parole. Doing law stuff. Then, I shall tell good ole Wallyword to shove it. Wish me luck!
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Yes, I'm going back to college in about a week, also. My last day is Sunday.
I definitely intend to be working some kind of job through the year, though. I just don't have anything lined up yet because I'm not at school yet. Not the best situation, but if I can at least earn enough for spending money during the year, then I won't have to deplete my current "savings," such as they are.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
What are you going to study?
CompSci at the mo. I figure, what the heck?
When the owners asked that I lie to the customers I felt it was time to say good bye...
Where did you WORK?
You're not working just 'caxuse you're going to school? *scoffs* I'm going to school full time in the fall, AND still working both of my jobs.... granted, I'm cutting down to 45-50 hours a week, but I still need to work to survive [[Roll Eyes]]
Must be nice to have parents that help pay for things [[Razz]]
*pats Liz on top of the head*
You're such a sweet person.
Whatever you do, no matter hard hard financially you may fall, do not (I repeat: do not!) work in the residence halls! IT WILL EAT YOUR SOUL!
I live at home. University's twenty minutes from my house. I figure, why spend $16,000 over the next four years just to live in cramped, crowded, occasionally unsanitary conditions? Besides, I have cable here.
I'm planning to work some time during my college years, but not this semester. Wanna see how much time I have first.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
quote: I figure, why spend $16,000 over the next four years just to live in cramped, crowded, occasionally unsanitary conditions?
Oh dear. Uh, because it would be the best thing you've ever done? I lived at home while getting my associate's degree. It was a Bad Idea. Do not do this. Move out. Quickly. Live. With others. Young people. Frolic. Dip deep into life.
Also, take some biology and physics courses.
And have fun, please.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Listen to Simon.
Please don't be one of those pricks still living at home after they've graduated and have a good job because "they don't want the expense" of their own place.
Liz: I heart ya.
BTW: If Omega patted me on the head in that condescending manner, he wouldn't have that hand to use anymore.
Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
quote:Besides, I have cable here.
Hmm.
Hang out with friends, have fun like your life depends on it, get your own place.
Or:
Waste the best years of your life by watching endless reruns of Trek in the comfort of your own bedroom.
Tough call.
Posted by Magnus de Pym (Member # 239) on :
Life would, like, totally suck if we were only entitled to four "best years," and they come at the very beginning of life, before we know anything.
Also, people being, um, "different," makes for one interesting world. In that we are not all the same. And do what everyone else does. And do what we would like.
But, if 18 through 22 are the best years of lifehood, then, really, I mean.
I'd much rather have my rising action culminate in Act III, rather than middle to end Act I.
Do what you want to Stevie.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Now I didn't say I'd be spending all my time here at home. I'll probably live on campus, and just sleep here. And I don't watch Star Trek reruns.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Funny that. I have a new job, for about 3 weeks now. I'm doing data entry for New England Construction news, an element of Construction Data Corporation News. I live in the middle of PA & the office I work for handles bids for the places where I grew up. It's grand.
But yes. Part-time (30-35 hours a week), $9 an hour. Sitting & doing what I'd be doing at home. Yay.
Now if only I hadn't had to have been forcefully separated from my girlfriends for 2 years at the start of it. Stupid laws....stupid non-understanding parents.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Yes, what were they thinking, preventing their teenage daughter from, let's put it nicely, associating with a man ten+ years older than her?
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
quote:I'll probably live on campus, and just sleep here.
Oh, well then ...
Posted by The Mike Who Would Be Captain (Member # 709) on :
oddly enough, ive gone out (or just been friends) with a lot of people that have a considerable age difference with me, and their parents have been pretty gracious on the matter. i guess it just depends on the situation.
wait.. live there AND sleep there?
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
Most of the people I chill with are considerably older than me, and in many cases married.... I don't really get along with those that are my age *shrug* Don't have much in common, I guess....
Good thing that these guys I love so much have trusting wives, though... otherwise it's be a REALLY messy situation!
~LOA
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
I like older people too ... tend to be a lot more mature.
Posted by Magnus de Pym (Member # 239) on :
They provide a proper counterbalance?
I am confused.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
They provide a counter-balance to people like you, UM.
Now, here's my Q: where is Omega going to get money?
Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
From his folks?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Careful, he might pat your head and talk down to you if you say that.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Now just to make sure, Liz, YOU weren't offended by that, were you? Seemed like something you'd get, but everyone else seems to have been, so I thought I should make sure...
As for money, I've got about $6,000 in a savings account from my last year of work and my whole life before that. That'll easily hold me until I get a job elsewhere. I should have but minimal expenses beyond my scholarships to cover this year.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Now, you see, I'm in the same boat. Kinda. The university I'm going to in a couple of weeks is in the city that I work in, which is about 20 minutes away. Why would I want to go out and get an apartment? I don't think I want to live in the city, as the only apartment I'd be able to afford would be not very desirable at all. So, I'm going to live at home for the first couple of years of university. Then, once I can't finish my degree here, I have to move to the other UNB campus, which is up in another city. How's that, hmm? Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
I'm not sure Liz is offended by anything. Except Star Wars. And any derivative thereof.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by Omega: Now I didn't say I'd be spending all my time here at home. I'll probably live on campus, and just sleep here.
Won't happen. At all. You'll try, but there's a whole world of difference between living somewhere and visiting it. You will always be a guest. You will have to go back to your parents if you want to pick anything up. If people are going to do stuff late at night, you'll have to go home. Or if you go out with them, you'll then have to go home by themselves. Even if they are just sitting around watching TV and chatting, you'll have to leave.
I am going to disagree with UM here. You have $6,000. Listen to Simon, like he failed to listen to me. Go. Live there. If you hate it after 3 months, move out. But for pete's sake, just give it a go. If it works, you will go from a dull 1999-Franktype to a fun, sociable and hopefully well-adjusted 2002-Franktype.
Posted by Magnus de Pym (Member # 239) on :
1. You should not disagree with me. I am a fount of good. I also lived with my parents until I was 52. Also, I'm not exactly sure I had any point to disagree with, but if I had said "There's something to be said about sociality, and there's something to be said about single-focused sociality," I'm sure you'd then disagree.
2. "you'll then have to go home by themselves"
3. No one wants to be anything even remotely Frank, even if he was a Frank/Ron Jeremy-type.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"...Frank/Ron Jeremy-type..."
Ye gods... I feel sick. And, yet, strangely envious...
Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
I'd be sick, too, if I was feeling envious of Ron Jeremy. Which I'm not.
Posted by Tora Buttercup (Member # 53) on :
My college is 20 minutes away from my house and I live at school. There's a world of difference between living on campus and commuting; you'll see once you actually live it. I could live at home and have a car instead, but I wouldn't trade anything for the freedom. Sure, maybe you don't have parents who argue/lecture/nag, but there comes a time when you just want to get out of your parents' house. When better to do it than when you're still close by? Then again, maybe your time hasn't come yet.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Yes, Buttercup is right, commuting sucks, for school or work...
I am in a 6 week wait between 'real' jobs, as in paying taxes and all... Got some odd jobs doing PC repair, gutter cleaning, and all sorts of fun stuff for the interm...
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
*Notices Tora's change of name*
She will be my new wife.
Posted by Daryus Aden (Member # 12) on :
Liam, have you got a good tailor?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Er, maybe. Why?
Posted by Magnus de Pym (Member # 239) on :
Saville Row no doubt. HE IS ENGLISH!
Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
Omega, do what you like. I have friends that went through college at home and they all have better degrees than me (they are also all married now to guys they met at the time through non college activities- you may wish to consider that.)I think its easier to have a social life outside of college related activities if you live off campus. I moved onto campus when I went to Uni. The leaving home bit, being on my own was good. The college social experience wasn't. Hard to sleep because of the noise, people always stealing your food. Rumour running wild (gay chick at catholic college not a good idea as it turns out - who knew?) People can be cruel and when they are trying to make new friends and create a new social position for themselves they will pick on anyone. If you do decide to move, I would suggest getting a shared house not a place on campus.
LOA - Most of their wives are probably seeing women like me...I've been doing a roaring trade in bored housewives recently... Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
quote:Life would, like, totally suck if we were only entitled to four "best years," and they come at the very beginning of life, before we know anything.
Kindly speak for yourself, 'mkay? Because life, in all its unpredictable complexities, is rather indiscriminate about whom it distributes experiences to. Unevenly I might add.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Life, in all it's complexities, is an experience every day.
I used to do good business with married women too.... I wasn't quite as bald then, drank more, and lost my wife and son when she moved to AZ to get away from the asshole she was married to.... Yes, now that was an experience that I made on my own...
Posted by Eric Cartman (Member # 256) on :
What I meant was, and I'm sure I'll be chastised by the majority for holding this view, that there are those who have at early age undeservingly been bestowed upon with far greater "knowledge" than most of us obtain in a fucking lifetime, and I take offense at the notion people "don't know anything" at the "very beginning of life". Guess again, and stop making presumptions based solely on your own comforting little existence while you're at it.
I wish the 'net didn't lack the tags necessary to convey extreme cynicism. It'd make properly expressing my emotions a hell of a lot easier.
Posted by Toadkiller (Member # 425) on :
quote:Originally posted by MaGiC: I moved onto campus when I went to Uni.... The Rumour running wild (gay chick at catholic college not a good idea as it turns out - who knew?) LOA - Most of their wives are probably seeing women like me...I've been doing a roaring trade in bored housewives recently...
What there is MORE THAN ONE woman on these boards now - actually posting on the same thread....who knew?
Soon we may all have to come face to face with this thing called "diversity". Well, at least we can still not socialize face to face. Or, well, if we do then it is (apparently) only with married women....
Do we have any of THOSE here?
Please note: applies and I didn't pat anyone on the head....
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Clare, I think a lot of it might depend on what uni you go to. The London ones are quite bad for getting any sort of community atmosphere, for instance. What uni did you go to?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"What there is MORE THAN ONE woman on these boards now - actually posting on the same thread....who knew?"
Actually, four women have posted in this thread so far. And we've got at least two others who haven't.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
...or you could have taken it that in whatever happens/happened to you, you are not the only one, having something unique happen to any one person is pretty slim, with several billions of people on this planet....
Posted by Magnus de Pym (Member # 239) on :
Young people don't know anything.
I hate them.
Rrrr.
Posted by The Mike Who Would Be Captain (Member # 709) on :
o mysterious ageless one!
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Four? I count three. Guess I don't know the identity of posters as good as I thought... Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Well, I just started my new part-time job at Towson University's English lab. My schedule needs to be trimmed of my Tuesday and Thursday afternoon hours, and I'd like to pick up some hours Wednesday (as it is, I open the lab, have class, four hours of free time, another class, then close the lab ... 8a - 9p) ...
And is it BORING. Class doesn't start until tomorrow so I'm sitting around here today for four hours seriously considering clawing my eyeballs out.
I'm still working at Papa Johns ... I should get about forty hours this week (I doubled at Jacksonville yesterday), even though my GM* at my home store slashed my hours to 15 a week. As a result, I need a new job (maybe keep PJs like 15 hours a week total ... Sunday day shift at Cockeysville, and Monday closing at Jacksonville).
So, tomorrow I'm going to go by Bill Bateman's Bistro and follow up on the application I turned in to them last week (conveniently, they're right on Towson's campus!!!). Thursday I'm also going to go to Carrabba's Italian Grill in Hunt Valley and see about a job waiting tables there.
Twelve credits ... two jobs now (at three stores), and soon three jobs (at four stores) ...
... why do I have the overwhelming urge to smack certain people who don't work their ass off while going to class?**
*Asshole bitch fucker who needs to be raped in the asshole with an oak tree!!!!! He'd better watch out when I'm an LEO, 'cuz I know what Baltimore bars he likes to drive home drunk from.
**In all fairness, my parent's pay my tuition. I'm just responsible for rent, books, parking permits, car payment, car & health insurance, utilities, food, credit card bills ...
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Liz (LOA) + Diane1 (Tora) + Dawn (StarFire) + Clare (MaGiC) = four women. Unless they've been lying.
1 ...or whatever it is that she calls herself these days.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
quote:Towson University's English lab
Is this where you americans experiment on the English? I guess you don't get as attached to them as you would lab rats.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Well it's actually where we perform bizarre quasi-ethical experiments on the English language. I've heard that some of the L33T group's work may have been leaked.
Posted by Magnus de Pym (Member # 239) on :
Headed by Doctar Jeff K?
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Sorry. The English Department's computer lab.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I didn't work my first three semesters of college. I relied on my parents and savings to get me through it. Then I worked two years in the residence halls, and all I got to show for it is a lousy GPA. Oh yeah, also, THEY ATE MY SOUL! So I started working again, but this time off-campus. I make enough to pay my bills and afford my necessities as well as tuck a little away into my savings account.
My experiences with working and going to school have been fairly positive aside from losing my soul.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I am going to be living in my car.
Posted by Eric Cartman (Member # 256) on :
I would too, if I owned one of these. Pity they get such sucky mileage though.
Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
Liam - St Mary's University College Twickenham. Part of the University of Surrey.
Small college with nice 'family' atmosphere...at least thats what the prospectus says....Very big on Rugby...*shudders at memories of the rugby team*
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Twickenham? Twickenham?
You poor thing.
Posted by StarFire (Member # 748) on :
Yes, I am one of the few females who lurk about this joint.
And, no, I didn't get that job. Damnit. Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I accidently found a job, working for another franchise... sales rep this time, maybe some of the other things I've started to boot... I might actually make a living about now....
Posted by an'on (Member # 222) on :
*drops by to up the number of females posting in this thread*
Posted by Capped In Mic (Member # 709) on :
Its skyrocketing now!
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I could probably sucker my sister into posting here, but I'm not sure I want to expose her to all of this.
Posted by E. Cartman (Member # 256) on :
What if she wants to be exposed, eh? EH?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Oh, it's not the interactions with y'all that I'd be worried about with bringing my sister here. It's that my family would find out the sinister secret of what I'm like when I'm not around them.
Posted by E. Cartman (Member # 256) on :
You have now sparked my curiosity about what you're like when you *are* around your family.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
That secret I shall never reveal here. You'll just have to use your imagination. Posted by E. Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Not feeling talkative, are we? In that case I'll just have to... extract information from you by... alternative means.
*pulls up interrogation chair*
Now then.
Posted by Capped In Mic (Member # 709) on :
you know the drill, big boy. let's talk about these five lights for a while.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Excuse me? I believe that I'm the master of interrogation here.
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