I hate smelling people who SMELL LIKE FISH! It's gross! So just scrub your damn cootch once in a while and save yourself a ton of grief and embarrassment! No offense to the ladies, but 'ginas aren't really my cup of tea, and smelling a dirty one from more than 5 feet away doesn't do much to make me a bigger fan of them.
And, yes, this is another ranting post. You've been warned.
For more pressing and irritating than dirty 'gina is the fact that I'm not qualified to get a job doing anything other than take fast food orders or sell shoes at a cheap-ass job at the mall.
Are either of those bad? No. I'm sure I'd enjoy working with friends I know. Are either of those going to pay my bills. Barely. I'd have enough to pay my bills, and then maybe $200 a month to feed myself (lord knows my parents don't, but that's a rant for another time) and actually go and do anything fun. Do either of those have anything to do with what I've been studying in school for the past 4 years? No, not a damned thing.
I love how my degree, which everyone said was such a smart thing to get, qualifies me to do absolutely nothing outside of going to med school or getting some other advanced degree. Apperantly I just went to College for 4 years just for the sake of going to school longer and avoiding the real world. I sure as hell wasn't prepared to actually make a living.
Jobs actually available right now include the following: Fast Food, mall retail, computer programmers, nurses, people to re-sell shit on e-bay, and any other job you can possibly imagine (except THOSE are all outside Omaha).
OH! I can be a Nurse, though, can't I? I mean, I only spent the last 4 years studying biology, including anatomy and physiology, and all that stuff, right!?
Wrong. Apperantly I have to take a whole other type of schooling for that, and there's no way I'm going to afford that any time soon.
So, here I am, I've tried getting jobs through 3 different hiring agencies. None of them will call me back or respond to e-mails. I've posted my resume on monster.com, careerlink.org, omahahelpwanted.com, yahoo hotjobs, and instanthumanresources.com, and I've got nothing. Nor is anything other than the 6 jobs mentioned above actually listed on those sites. I'm 5 months behind on student loan payments, 2 months behind on car payments, I can't pay my damn credit card payment, I only eat maybe once a day b/c I can't afford to feed myself. Hell, I can't even afford to put gas in my car to GO LOOK for jobs.
You know, I saw an ad for a job at the gallup organization. It was for being a telephone interviwer. The hours were screwy, but I applied anyway b/c I need the money. Well, I got an e-mail saying that they didn't have any job openings that fit with my abilities.
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Fan-fucking-tastic. Apperantly, even though I have a college degree, I'm still not qualified to talk to people on a fucking phone. What ever happened to "It doesn't matter what degree you got. It only matters that you got one and it shows that you're not stupid, work hard, and can get things done."
"Doesn't matter what degree" my ass.
Seriously, why the fuck did I rack up 35k in student loans just to be told I'm not qualified to use a telephone!?
I want my fucking money back for my worthless education that matters NOTHING to ANYONE!
Fuck it, I'm just gonna go crawling back to Burger King and beg for my job back and work fast food for the rest of my goddman worthless life.
Eric 7/09/2006 03:40:00 AM
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Eric. Peace. I hear your frustrations. I got layed off from my ticket-selling job at WI. Ren Fest. (though because they had hired too many people, not because they didn't like me). Yeah, it's amazing how people will be like "wow, biology", and then when you ask to work under them, or for an application, they give this funny look like why in the world would I consider such a job as that? and ask "do you have any work experience?" I'm moving to Minneapolis in early August (and maybe maybe the last week in July, but I think my family really wants me home for awhile). At least mine feed me. I'm tired of moving, but it should be alright. at least I had enough hours last winter so that i was able to save money. (then again, I didn't try to do theatre)
