the one thing I hate more than having to go to work every day...

... is being unemployed.

 

Go to the job corps.

Work a day doing some extreme construction.

It will teach you something about life, at least.

 

this the one fence the grass is ALWAYS greener on the other side of.

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I'm unemployed right now and am loving it. My last day at my old job was Friday. At 25 I have the chance to go to grad school full-time and not work...if I am really good at budgeting, which I am not so I might have to work part-time in the fall.
I miss my kids and the knowing there's going to be a large paycheck every two weeks... but how often do you get to buy time?
enjoy yourself

 

believe it or not, I have a few times. wasn't very good at it, though, since I'm about as scrawny as... *thinks*.... David Bowie.

 

I would quite enjoy being unemployed if I didn't need money and could simply live off the land as I would like.

 

same here. unfortunately that isn't a pragmatic solution right now.

 

I haven't gone to work everyday in 30 years. I haven't worked full time or even part time in all that time. I love it.! I live a very, very simple life, and need very little money to make it work. My family and I lived in tents in the woods for 15 years with no rent or expensive utilities. I have done some apple picking, organic farm labor, caretaking, housecleaning, landscaping etc. I have done piece work at home, and now I make hats and sell them, so I love being "umemployed." I am artistic and creative, and like to spend my time making things for gifts and to try to sell, and most of all enjoying life.

 

I want to have glitter sex with David Bowie.

 

who could blame you?

 

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The Thin White Duke, because I'm more attracted to Ziggy Stardust.

 

he wasn't too bad looking as David Jones either.

 

Hell, he still doesn't look too bad, even at this age and after all the drugs...

 

he sometimes comes into the bookstore I used to work in in NYC. I saw Lou Reed and met Tom Verlaine there as well.

 

Did you make sexual advances at them?

I do hope so.



I don't really react to celebrities... they're just people...

But Lou Reed and David Bowie..... man... I would be speechless if I saw them... (and then I would tell them that I want to have glitter sex).

 

no. Lou Reed is just way too intense; he walked around the store with storm clouds hanging over his head. Bowie, on the other hand, I might have; but I got fired a few days before he came in (a girl I worked with told me.)

my father was once in an elevator with David Bowie, but mi padre decided not to bother him even though he was a fan, and I probably would have done the same. meeting celebrities is overrated.

 

I would have brought up the most random of topics if I was in an elevator with him...

Ask him some kind of silly question, or just start a conversation about something ridiculously random... to see his reaction.

Even though I'd probably do that with any stranger that looks like he doesn't have a stick permanently stuck inside his ass.

 

Back to the employment thing... I'm unemployed again too. Though, we're ok financially.

I'm seriously mulling over a free twenty two week program offered here to learn manufacturing...
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Machining training students learn the basics of operating:
Pedal Grinders
Saws
Drill Press
Surface Grinders
Lathes
Vertical Milling Machines
CNC Machines

Machining students also learn blueprint reading, applied math theory, layout and benchwork.

The classroom sessions, hands-on experience and special sessions focused on professional development and resume writing total 550 hours over a 22-week period.
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All I'd need to get in would be my GED (got it) & two letters of recommendation... & Probably a math course or two from community college.. Hmmmm.


Meantime, I think I'm going to apply for a factory job in a couple weeks.

I'm really tired of the types of jobs women tend to work... My back can't handle lifting people like my last job working with seniors/disabled seniors, but I think I could maybe handle the manufacturing gig....Undecided though.

 

I feel ya on that. I used to work as an aide in apecial day class and I felt like my whole job was lifting a toleting. I was a small girl then too so I through my back out a ot.

If I do end up having to go back to work I am thinkin of either being an overpriced nanny for a high profile family or subsitute teaching...I honestly would just love a job where I am in and out and don't have to think about it when I come home.
I know I can pay off my bills after my mft program so I am going to try not to trip out and feel iresponsible, but it's hard.
Do you live in a small town or a city?

 

City burbs now.

Yup, that's what I want too..Not sure it's entirely possible, but maybe I need to change my point of view more than keep changing jobs. I was never very good at letting my day roll off my back.
It's gotta be easier to let go of a manufacturing job than it is to shake off working in a nursing home.