Just another day...

[reymonkey]

Job-hunting unfortunately means a lot of keeping the phone line open, but seeing as I'm currently sending out emls to reply to ads...


I filed for unemployment, which will hopefully be a very temporary thing, but wow does it ever make me feel like a failure. A buddy of mine told me a while back that I was the sticking point in an argument that broke up a dying friendship. Apparently the other chick was insisting that anyone who's willing to try in this country can have a good life financially speaking. I guess I'm an example of the untruth of it. I have a Graphic design degree, I know I'm reasonably talented artistically speaking, I try making a living off my skills every way I can. I've ended up working a lot of retail with a few odd freelance graphics jobs, I've had no health insurance for years, and here I am selling art and filing for unemployment just to meet the bills and get a bad tooth taken care of. It makes me wonder what I'm doing wrong, and that's a fast track to getting depressed. I don't like blaming society or anybody else for my problems, but continually asking myself what I'm doing wrong, what it is about me that I'm failing when I feel like I try so hard, hasn't gotten me anywhere productive.
If an intelligent, hardworking person with some measure of talent and a college degree can't get a job, it's just possible there's something amiss at large.

On a lighter note for your entertainment, here's some stuff found in the job ads:

!CIRLCE ME!

Help Desk
(standard requirements blah blah blah...) Must have secret clearance.

Christ the King seeks admin to...

On the meme front, yoinked from amethystlight
Ask any of my characters anything with any of your characters or however that meme goes.

I'll list the characters who can be questioned. You can ask questions with either your own RP characters or as yourself. You're welcome to question characters I don't play online if you're familiar with them, though. ;)
Character list on LJ:
Dirk Gently dirk__gently
Markus Rathbone call_me_rat
Silens greyshade
Terrence Coleburn t_coleburn
Fisher maylookatkings
The Librarian librarykeeper
Owen Burnett agoodfellow
Tyldak flyhighthing
Persephone Falcone bitterseeds
Damien Stockholm d_stockholm (Retired on LJ)

I'll re when I'm not worried about incoming phonecalls and when we're not being hit with a thunderstorm, which may be a narrow timeframe but we'll see. I'm off to try to finish up Janewt's commission, which is very close to done. Thanks to everybody making helpful comments!

Comments

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

Fisher: Er, what? No, I don't regret it, and mostly we don't understand each other. Bet I couldn't understand you in my own world, but rabbits are usually a little out of my league.

Silens writes: Metal armor is very heavy expensive would make me too slow. I do not know what it would look like almost no one has it. I will not wear it because I would be too clumsy in fights.

Rat: ...Maybe. Maybe if the city were stable and free and people knew the truth, and certainly I'd leave along with everyone else if it became a necessity. I spent so long looking for the answers, and I don't like them now that I have them, but I feel a responsibility to the city for having them. I want to sort the city out and see it... reach maturation? The city is like a lost child right now, and it might be a hard journey to see the truth, but we have to grow up sometime.

Persephone: *smirk* I don't drink much, unless you count tea. I like my brain cells.