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Post by lazy poet on Oct 24, 2007 20:31:46 GMT
ah indeed, i got depressed too, but at least you can keep at it, unlike me i had a saturday job, i quit after working there 4 saturdays ha. weekends are such precious things when you have to go to the same school, see the same people, same walls, same cheesy bright posters with useless advice on them 5 days a week
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Post by stationtostation on Oct 24, 2007 20:52:06 GMT
i feel the same i seem to have some idea that i don't need any qualifications to do the things i want the quote that patrick said in some interview (i-d i think) seems to sum up my view towards work&school ''I knew I didn't want a job, qualifications or anything like that. I wanted to like a life of magic and adventure, and that was what i was going to do'' oh how pathetic of me i'm the same. i've had to get a part time job to fund my adventuring tendencies and for some reason i'm incapable of dealing with it. for a start. it means i can't really go out so much and it's just...such a conventional way of life. it makes me quite depressive Well ha at least your lucky that rubbish cash getting jobs are just a temporary short term/part time part of your life. I mean as long as you get your grades and get though uni and everything you can wave good bye to this stuff soon enough. I mean seriously if you don't end up with the grades and you don't have any sort of support/safety net like money from parents you'll end up like me and have to do jobs in conventional land full time.. ! Ha well to be a total ponce I must admit that while I dislike arty poseurs I do feel my interests and world view will always make me a bit of a alien who can never totally be himself in places like the one I work. I'm lucky though because at least care work is a relatively human environment, I'm quite shocked by how much you are expected to be basically a machine/robot in things like shop jobs. Maybe you could find a part time job that would suit you a bit more Liz dear? Much as it does pretty much suck to be frank, the world of work DOES get better than supermarket shelf stacking. Just treat this job as research into a different way of life to your own I guess, some peoples work in supermarkets full time for ten years and are perfectly contented, it takes all sort of folks to make the world go around and its best to respect and understand as many kinds as you can.
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Post by lastgoodbye on Oct 24, 2007 20:53:56 GMT
Maybe I'm a bit slow, or stupid or something haha, really. But, I can't understand why people don't want other people know they are connected... I just saw the 4 invisible users and thought that. Why do you want to be invisible on a forum? I think everyone should change it on their profile so they're invisible when they're logged on. Because I get the feeling that sometimes people don't bother posting when they see at the bottom that there is barely anyone else online. That way, it will be a pleasant surprise working out who else is online. And we would all be invisible. That would be fun.
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Post by mynameisHughGrant on Oct 24, 2007 21:05:17 GMT
yesyes, you are cxompletely right of course josh! At work i meet people who treat it as just a part time job, people who look to make a career out of it and people who've already got their career lined up and just need the money until they finish college. But it's like I still have this massive question mark hanging over my life and everyone else has some kind of future building for themself. I'm not even sure i want to go to uni, that's something i've been asking myself I went to my grandma's house at the weekend and my mum was talking to her parents about how she can't stand her job, wants to leave, is unhappy there etc and all the advice they gave her was the same advice as she gives me. "don't leave your job until you have another one lined up" "do your best, there's nothing else you can do". There's so much repetetition and travelling in circles going on in the generations, in moving through the working world and especially in the jobs that are open to me at this age (mainly different versions of fill trolley/wheel trolley out/take everything out of trolley/wheel trolley in/fill trolley) that it makes me feel the ened to distance myself from it all
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Post by stationtostation on Oct 24, 2007 21:11:37 GMT
yesyes, you are cxompletely right of course josh! At work i meet people who treat it as just a part time job, people who look to make a career out of it and people who've already got their career lined up and just need the money until they finish college. But it's like I still have this massive question mark hanging over my life and everyone else has some kind of future building for themself. I'm not even sure i want to go to uni, that's something i've been asking myself I went to my grandma's house at the weekend and my mum was talking to her parents about how she can't stand her job, wants to leave, is unhappy there etc and all the advice they gave her was the same advice as she gives me. "don't leave your job until you have another one lined up" "do your best, there's nothing else you can do". There's so much repetetition and travelling in circles going on in the generations, in moving through the working world and especially in the jobs that are open to me at this age (mainly different versions of fill trolley/wheel trolley out/take everything out of trolley/wheel trolley in/fill trolley) that it makes me feel the ened to distance myself from it all Yeah I can perfectly understand how terrifying the whole "world of work" adult life and all its traps, hardships and mundanities can be at your age.. actually fuck that I've never managed to settle down into and I'm way older than you so I still feel scared shitless of conventional "adult" life. I do have faith that theres a job everyone out there can at least find tolerable, and you Liz my dear have almost infinite potential, its just a matter of first finding out what you really want from life then finding what direction to travel to get there, its fucking hard but I'm certain you'll get there. You don't HAVE to go to university so sorry if I made it sound like you do to get on with life, but it helps to have a plan as to where you want to go and you have plenty of time to think one up. In the mean time, you're young, intelligent, charming and beautiful and you have friends and adventures ahead of you, just try and hold on to the good times x
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Post by sarah on Oct 24, 2007 21:18:36 GMT
ahhh i see my sister went there it is so easy to get lost in there by the way, everytime i've been in that building, i have had extreme trouble knowing where everything is in relation to everything else ): You should sneak into our tour group. I'll hide you under my coat. We could be a giant. haha! that made me laugh i've always wanted to do that two people and a big jacket thing
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Post by mynameisHughGrant on Oct 24, 2007 21:26:47 GMT
yesyes, you are cxompletely right of course josh! At work i meet people who treat it as just a part time job, people who look to make a career out of it and people who've already got their career lined up and just need the money until they finish college. But it's like I still have this massive question mark hanging over my life and everyone else has some kind of future building for themself. I'm not even sure i want to go to uni, that's something i've been asking myself I went to my grandma's house at the weekend and my mum was talking to her parents about how she can't stand her job, wants to leave, is unhappy there etc and all the advice they gave her was the same advice as she gives me. "don't leave your job until you have another one lined up" "do your best, there's nothing else you can do". There's so much repetetition and travelling in circles going on in the generations, in moving through the working world and especially in the jobs that are open to me at this age (mainly different versions of fill trolley/wheel trolley out/take everything out of trolley/wheel trolley in/fill trolley) that it makes me feel the ened to distance myself from it all Yeah I can perfectly understand how terrifying the whole "world of work" adult life and all its traps, hardships and mundanities can be at your age.. actually fuck that I've never managed to settle down into and I'm way older than you so I still feel scared shitless of conventional "adult" life. I do have faith that theres a job everyone out there can at least find tolerable, and you Liz my dear have almost infinite potential, its just a matter of first finding out what you really want from life then finding what direction to travel to get there, its fucking hard but I'm certain you'll get there. You don't HAVE to go to university so sorry if I made it sound like you do to get on with life, but it helps to have a plan as to where you want to go and you have plenty of time to think one up. In the mean time, your young, intelligent, charming and beautiful and you have friends and adventures ahead of you, just try and hold on to the good times x 1. you are the best careers advisor ever 2. oh no, you didn't make it sound like i MUST go to uni at all, it was just because you mentioned uni which prompted me to type that seeing as i've been thinking about it The whole area of furutre employment is something i'm not great with. I can get really unnecessarily annoyed, we had a talk at school where in the first hour we were told basically that if we didn't go to uni we wouldn't be able to get high paid jobs, "the more you learn, the more you earn" was the exact quote. I can't explain why it upset me and i don't really know what other points they amde later on in the talk (it was an all day thing) cos i walked out of school in the breaktime I think i'll look on the bright side and say school is great rght now. I get to do a thing i love every day. except i sometimes have to do shakespeare as well. I didn't even stay on for the qualifications really, mainly it was a sort of seizing-last-chances initiative
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Post by chloelovespw on Oct 25, 2007 5:12:07 GMT
i have seen a "vote john mccain" banner/ad at the top of every page. anyone like to explain?
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Post by allison on Oct 25, 2007 5:30:08 GMT
tomorrow will be absolutely rotten, i'm sure.
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Post by mynameisHughGrant on Oct 25, 2007 11:14:28 GMT
i just got a letter sayng "we're sorry to see you've been sick 7 days in a row, including non-contractual days. you must now fill this out or face yr d00m" from work. considering i work 3 days and thus have only missed 10 hours of working, i don't understand this :/
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Post by lazy poet on Oct 25, 2007 12:45:45 GMT
my computer is refusing to recognise my microphone argh my eyes have gone cross-eyed ha
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Post by lastgoodbye on Oct 25, 2007 13:22:51 GMT
My brother broke Youtube. Now I can't watch any Youtube videos. It's something to do with Java. He tried to update it, and now it doesn't work at all. If it didn't seem so funny when he explained it to me, I'd be mad at him. Grrr.
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Post by lazy poet on Oct 25, 2007 13:34:42 GMT
WHEN SOMEBODY TALKS TO YOU, FUCKING REPLY TO THEM. meine freunden ist sehr sheiss
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Post by pigeon song on Oct 25, 2007 17:01:17 GMT
Do you think we should have some kind of wolfboard logo?
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Post by abolishconfusion on Oct 25, 2007 17:11:21 GMT
and we can all get it as tattoos?
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Post by Clare on Oct 25, 2007 18:12:54 GMT
and we can all get it as tattoos? Dear God, no. As if I'd want a mark associating me with some of you people PERMANENTLY ETCHED INTO MY BODY (what is a temple, innit?).
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Post by sarah on Oct 25, 2007 18:48:37 GMT
My brother broke Youtube. i thought that said "broke up over Youtube" and got thouroughly confused.
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Post by lastgoodbye on Oct 25, 2007 18:54:12 GMT
My brother broke Youtube. i thought that said "broke up over Youtube" and got thouroughly confused. I would be interested to see how that would work... except I wouldn't be able to see, BECAUSE MY YOUTUBE IS BROKEN. *sheds silent tear*.
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Post by lastgoodbye on Oct 25, 2007 18:59:13 GMT
Eww wtf happened to myspace. It reminds me of facebook now. Not good.
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Post by giraffe on Oct 25, 2007 19:30:38 GMT
I know it's terrible, I signed on earlier and thought I was on the wrong site for a second.
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