boss is gone.

everyone showed up over an hour late today. i'm thinking i should be gone at least an hour early

i dont want to be here

after 4 days at home with wife and kids (whom I love very much), i dont want to be there either

suggestions?

AC?

As if he didn't post that from his crackberry on the way to AC

lethal wrote:AC?

Almost always the correct answer, but I'm headed down later this week. I'm not up for the lies and deception that would be required to pull that off twice in one week.

my mom just emailed me. she passed her qualifying exam and is officially a doctoral candidate. i'm not sure what that means exactly, but i'm proud of her. neither one of my parents went straight to college after high school, and now one of them has one of those crazy "honorary" degrees and the other is going to have a PhD.

Mrs. jeff2sf must have really laid down the law this weekend. Probably made him clear out the gutters and hang all the Christmas decorations himself, while she was out getting her hair done or something.

back to kentucky

I want a real job despite being almost certain that I'll hate it as soon as it happens.

I wonder what I was thinking back in college and even a few years ago when I was all, "Money? Who needs it!"

dajafi wrote:I want a real job despite being almost certain that I'll hate it as soon as it happens.

Yeah, this is the alternative to the grad school apps I'm procrastinating on and surely effing myself with acceptance/funding by not doing because I'm lazy and hate rejection. And I'd hate a real job too. My fake job is so spectacular in many ways, but I really need to get out of the house and make more than I'm making.

Jersey Shore might be the best idea MTV had in a while. Not only will it be hysterical, but it will just give me even more ammunition against Jersey people.

Yeah, those PA beaches are fucking awesome

jerseyhoya wrote:Yeah, those PA beaches are $#@! awesome

Had you in mind actually when I posted. Thought a reply would take under 5 minutes, and you didn't disappont.

jerseyhoya wrote:

dajafi wrote:I want a real job despite being almost certain that I'll hate it as soon as it happens.

Yeah, this is the alternative to the grad school apps I'm procrastinating on and surely effing myself with acceptance/funding by not doing because I'm lazy and hate rejection. And I'd hate a real job too. My fake job is so spectacular in many ways, but I really need to get out of the house and make more than I'm making.

If you want money, don't go to grad school. If on the other hand, you want to avoid growing up for another 7-10 years, then get your grad school apps done.

jerseyhoya wrote:

dajafi wrote:I want a real job despite being almost certain that I'll hate it as soon as it happens.

Yeah, this is the alternative to the grad school apps I'm procrastinating on and surely effing myself with acceptance/funding by not doing because I'm lazy and hate rejection. And I'd hate a real job too. My fake job is so spectacular in many ways, but I really need to get out of the house and make more than I'm making.

I think the idea is that you do whatever short-term to set yourself up long-term. Your issue seems to be that you aren't very clear on what it is you'd like to do long-term. The good news is you're 25. It would be a little weird if you did know, and unlike most 25 year-olds you aren't deluding yourself with some grand scheme that isn't likely to work out.

With me it's more like there's something I might not be thinking through. I'm in the process of pursuing a fairly high-level policy job with the city. There are actually things about it that would be pretty neat, and I feel somehow obligated to try working in government and maybe implementing some of the things I've been thinking and writing about in workforce development.

But it probably would mean a pay cut from my current consulting thing, and I'd have to wake up at a normal-person hour and shave and wear a suit every day. Not things I like much. And one reason I'd do it is so I could go back to consulting in 2-3 years and hopefully command more money from new clients. There's just something irrational and circular about the whole thing.

I think it's just craving structure--as you've seen, I've spent this afternoon having a pointless argument with friggin jeff about Afghanistan, something I know little and he knows nothing about, a real sign that I have nothing useful to do and/or that I can't make myself do work stuff with semi-distant deadlines. I'd have been better off just playing Madden or something.

TenuredVulture wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

dajafi wrote:I want a real job despite being almost certain that I'll hate it as soon as it happens.

Yeah, this is the alternative to the grad school apps I'm procrastinating on and surely effing myself with acceptance/funding by not doing because I'm lazy and hate rejection. And I'd hate a real job too. My fake job is so spectacular in many ways, but I really need to get out of the house and make more than I'm making.

If you want money, don't go to grad school. If on the other hand, you want to avoid growing up for another 7-10 years, then get your grad school apps done.

but for the love of god, don't ever consider getting a real job and going to grad school at the same time. I mean i totally half ass it (the school) as much as possible and it's still soul-sucking. I guess I half-ass my real job too a little but that's not so much me as the Dilbert Principle in action

woddy is right

school + work = teh suck

I am going on such a bender when I'm done in a few weeks

I think I could do this job and school, or at least a lesser version of this job, mostly because I don't work hard all that often. I've actually been doing a lot of work today though. End of month deadlines. Gotta get those hours in so my invoice doesn't look too pathetic.

Woody wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

dajafi wrote:I want a real job despite being almost certain that I'll hate it as soon as it happens.

Yeah, this is the alternative to the grad school apps I'm procrastinating on and surely effing myself with acceptance/funding by not doing because I'm lazy and hate rejection. And I'd hate a real job too. My fake job is so spectacular in many ways, but I really need to get out of the house and make more than I'm making.

If you want money, don't go to grad school. If on the other hand, you want to avoid growing up for another 7-10 years, then get your grad school apps done.

but for the love of god, don't ever consider getting a real job and going to grad school at the same time. I mean i totally half ass it (the school) as much as possible and it's still soul-sucking. I guess I half-ass my real job too a little but that's not so much me as the Dilbert Principle in action

And whatever you do, don't be a new father and work full time and go to grad school and organize a message board award ceremony.