Posted By kage / 23rd February 2011
Alas…
So what do you do with your day? If you’re lucky you get up, have a cup of coffee or two, shower, shave, get ready to face the day then go out and face the day. Yeah. Dealing with the work people. All day long. Meetings. You know, have to talk to the creepy old guy at the water cooler, flirt a little with the new girl, put in a days work then at five, hjt it. Take off. Go home, maybe have a beer or two. Chill, cook some dinner, play a little xbox, maybe watch a movie. Then it’s off to bed.
You know….
A regular day
For some of you. For some of us it’s a bit different.
Oh sure we get up. At some point. Maybe not too early. You know, cause we were up waaay to late last night. Checking out the movies on IFC or Showtime or truth be known, watching the cartoon network. So yeah we get up out of bed eventually, make our way to the kitchen, brew up a pot of coffee and stand around waking up, taking stock of things. Trying to place yourself. Then grabbing the first cup o’the day, make our way to the computer. Sit down, turn on iTunes to KEXP or Indie 1031, then proceed with your daily “grind”. Check the email, run through the job listings. Apply for anything. Shit shoveler at the Zoo? Here’s an application. Enjoy! Booger picker at the nose dr? Zing goes the email. Stocker at the porn store? Pow! application sent.
Basically apply for anything. ANYTHING. Then it’s off to the daily browse. Start with Fark, waste some time there, browse a few other sites, Reddit, Lifehacker…porn…pretty much anything that’s even remotely interesting.
Break for lunch after a bit…then…the day is yours! What to do; what to do? Perhaps we could clean a bit? Perhaps a trip to the grocery, but not too much. Watching the budget and all.
Then when night comes the television comes on. Waste hours watching cooking network. Go to bed at 2 or three. Repeat.
Tough life. Boring life. But there’s always Dines Drive ins and Dives. Yeah, that’ll do the trick.
Posted By KJ / 9th July 2010
Totally stolen from Mo Rage. Worth it though. Great post.
Link to original post: Republicans: Wanting America to fail?.
From the post:
There are two fascinating articles out right now, simultaneously, both either asking or proving the same thing basically and that is that the Republicans want this President–and so, the country, of course–to be really hurting or worse, so they can take the country back. I’ve written on it before.
Guardian UK
Krugman in NY Times
Posted By kage / 4th May 2010
Tom Petty sang it much better than I ever could begin to.
Waiting. It’s hard. It’s terribly hard. For many, many people these days, myself included, waiting is the new national pasttime. Send the resume, wait. Resend the resume. Wait. Get an interview! Hurray. Go to interview. Go to second, and third interviews. Wait. Wait some more. Send “hey, Hi there…um…remember me?” letter. Only worded much better than that. Wait. Go mow the yard, paint the walls, scrub the floors. Wait.
Phone rings. Try not to pee pants, realize it’s your mother. Gibber and jabber with her for a while, promise all is well, everything is fine. Hang up. Wait.
Check phone to make sure it’s charged and on. It is.
Wait.
Send resumes, call people who might be able to help. ”Sure, send my your resume and I’ll pass it on. Swear to god”. Send resume.
Wait.
It really has become the national pastime with so many people out of work. In March, according to government statistics 9.7% of the population was out of work. 6.5 MILLION people were unemployed for more than 27 weeksw. That’s a Houston sized city of people sitting around watching Spongebob. While I”m sure that we all enjoy Spongebob, I think that I can speak for many of us when I say we’d rather watch it on TIVO after we get home from work.
What’s funny/irritating?/bothersome/etc. is the amount of people who offer advice that they all swear is the best. Go network, go to job fairs, always be working to get that new job, always be on your best behaviour, dress like your going to an interview, wear clean underwear, brush your teeth, cut your hair, network, network and network. While this is all pretty good advice, I think that people are getting a little tired of being networked. Also when I’m mowing the yard I don’t generally wear coat and tie. I mean…sure sometimes it’s nice for a change to dress all fancy to cut the grass, but when it’s hot, it’s pretty uncomfortable.
I wish us all luck. Everyone of us who is looking for work. If you’re not looking for work because you’re one of the cool kids who actually have jobs, then more power to you.
In the mean time think I’ll wait around and do some networking. With the cats.
Posted By KJ / 3rd March 2010
Do we ever get to call a do over in life? Maybe just a time out, go to the sidelines and figure out the next play?
No?
Damn.
I was thinking that I’d just trot over to the sidelines, have some gatorade and kind of make like I’m thinking about what to do next and then trot back out to the field. Of course I’ll still not have any idea what the hell I’m doing or going to do, but I’ll look swell in my indecision.
I know that I’m not the only one in this boat. In fact the old unemployment boat is full to the brim like one of those Cuban refugee “boats” that you see on the news every now and again. Fifty people are piled on the hood of a 63 Dodge Dart and trying to float their way to Miami. Current unemployment rates are officially at or around 10%, but the real unemployment rate is, depending on which source you use, somewhere around 15-17% and possibly even worse. The old hood for the American unemployed is full and really, if we all float to Miami, is it going to be any better there? Sure, there might be good food, but we’re all going to be to poor to afford it.
We can all be bitter, in fact I often am/was, but I’m personally trying not to be. I think that my bitterness is something that attributed to my current stupid poor health situation. That and the fact that for the longest time the only time I went to the gym was to pick my daughter up or maybe turn around in the parking lot. That’s not a very good workout honestly. I don’t recommend that you try it.
I think that I’m going to try being positive and see what happens.
