I Hate Having To Be Employed

[masterofmidgets]

Something to think about:

I just got the email from the Financial Aid Office saying that I'm eligible for the summer federal work study program - basically, if I work for the community or a non-profit, the government will pay 90% of my wages, which any potential emplyer should be pretty happy about. I will probably be spending half my spring break trying to find a job and get the paperwork all squared away DX

I've been mentally tossing around ideas for a couple different places I could work - the Planned Parenthood clinic in Rio Rancho (but the site says they have no job openings right now, only the one in Farmington!), some random non-profit in Albuquerque, maybe asking hanjuuluver  about working with her at the YMCA...(me and her, together, surrounded all day by tiny children? The mind recoils from the possibilities).

On the other hand, I was just messing around on Google maps, and I realized that the Bernalillo Town Library is, like, 4 blocks from my dad's house. Seriously, I could walk there in fifteen minutes. Reasons this is good: a) I'd like to work at a library again, since the work is fun, I've done it for a million billion years, and hey, books, and b) it wouldn't require anyone to drive me. I felt really bad making my family drive me to work all last summer, especially when I was working at the Way Fucking Far Away Movie Theater, plus my dad's schedule is pretty full and I don't know how available he'd be. And since I'm not looking to get my driver's license any time soon...(I know, I know, but I am thinking about asking my dad to start teaching me to drive this summer, and seeing if we can do a little better than the epic fail of the last few times).

I probably won't earn quite as much as I did this summer, since I'd only be allowed to work twenty hours a week (federal rules), but with the amount I still have saved, plus the money I earn at the call center, I should be in fine shape, and working part-time at a non-sucky job is hardly a bad thing!

This does, however, make my roommate and her enormous freakout about not getting hired at the investment bank of her choice seem like bullshit, though.

Comments

[themollyedge.livejournal.com]

I just got that email, too, but I'm not quite sure what it means. I shall have to read more about it.

[masterofmidgets.livejournal.com]

I was going to do it last year until I got all lame and missed all the deadlines. It's pretty much the same as the work study program during the year, only you can work out of CA. Pretty cool.

[themollyedge.livejournal.com]

Also, I have the exact same driving problem. In that I don't, and I won't, and I'm fairly certain I can't.

[masterofmidgets.livejournal.com]

I am glad I am not the only one!

I have no depth perception, a slow reaction speed, and a short attention span. I do not think this is a good combination behind the wheel.

[themollyedge.livejournal.com]

I have depth perception, but I suffer from the latter two problems, and also have a cripplingly awful sense of direction.

[masterofmidgets.livejournal.com]

That too!

I still have to get directions off the campus map anytime I go anywhere new, because otherwise I would wind up just wandering in circles around the Quad for hours /0\