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I don't know what to do with myself. I was incredibly awake and alert yesterday, well before my usual 2:00pm... which somehow resulted in me not being able to sleep until well after 6 this morning, as if that makes sense (I finally get a full night's sleep at semi-normal hours, and it prevents me from having two in a row... way to go, self). And so basically I'm sitting here, bored, despairing that the most intriguing Craigslist ad in the last day has been someone's appeal for a writer to help them flesh-out their script for a movie in which Berserker Jesus takes revenge on all the Jews for killing him. (It's terrifying. There's a phone number. I wanted to call it from a pay phone somewhere, just to see if the guy was as serious about the idea as he sounded. But then I decided that, if there was someone who could seriously have that idea, which involved a lot of cursing, breaking necks, and turning the contents of people's stomachs into wine in order to frame them for murder, I didn't want to know.)
And my main dilemma right now is figuring out whether I want to give up and start looking for a second part-time job. It basically means I work more hours than I need to for less money than I need, and sees to it that if I ever do have a spare few dollars I won't be able to use them, but at least it'd be a slight weight off my shoulders when winter rolls around and my student loans come due. I already can't go to concerts anymore, what's it matter that the only day I'd ever have off completely would be Sunday? ... At least I probably wouldn't be bored anymore.
I really hate the job market sometimes. With a passion. Because if I take a second part-time job, I'm going to have to keep both of them for a while, or risk all of my future potential employers going "why did you quit so many jobs in 2007?" It's bad enough I get yelled at for trying to leave the stupid bank job. If you had a job that was only in the evenings, with uneven hours, for just over minimum wage, and were trying to make a living, and they'd made you work for a month without pay and the CTA was horrible so that you hardly ever got there on time, would you have any qualms about leaving it after only two months? Just... grrrr. (I am still bitter about my last interview, which was horrible. Though I'm also bitter about that e-mail I got that told me I wasn't qualified for data entry work, just because I wasn't a marketing major. And so now I'm finding myself applying less to office jobs that are for marketing, recruiting, or even general business places, because they've all been inexcusably mean to me and obviously don't know what they're looking for... though this isn't good for me because there are no other jobs. Stupid, stupid Chicago.)
And my main dilemma right now is figuring out whether I want to give up and start looking for a second part-time job. It basically means I work more hours than I need to for less money than I need, and sees to it that if I ever do have a spare few dollars I won't be able to use them, but at least it'd be a slight weight off my shoulders when winter rolls around and my student loans come due. I already can't go to concerts anymore, what's it matter that the only day I'd ever have off completely would be Sunday? ... At least I probably wouldn't be bored anymore.
I really hate the job market sometimes. With a passion. Because if I take a second part-time job, I'm going to have to keep both of them for a while, or risk all of my future potential employers going "why did you quit so many jobs in 2007?" It's bad enough I get yelled at for trying to leave the stupid bank job. If you had a job that was only in the evenings, with uneven hours, for just over minimum wage, and were trying to make a living, and they'd made you work for a month without pay and the CTA was horrible so that you hardly ever got there on time, would you have any qualms about leaving it after only two months? Just... grrrr. (I am still bitter about my last interview, which was horrible. Though I'm also bitter about that e-mail I got that told me I wasn't qualified for data entry work, just because I wasn't a marketing major. And so now I'm finding myself applying less to office jobs that are for marketing, recruiting, or even general business places, because they've all been inexcusably mean to me and obviously don't know what they're looking for... though this isn't good for me because there are no other jobs. Stupid, stupid Chicago.)
