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    when it rains it pours

    of course, i've been searching for a job for like, 8 months. (ok, well i've been unemployed for 8 months, i haven't really been looking for a job for that long > unemployment rocks!)

    so since i'm in school my chances of getting an office job that pays me $25 an hour, since i can only work 16 hour a week and i need at least that much to survive, were quite slim. so i figured i should just get a waitresssing job. i go to like, 4 places that had ads out and each of them say "we are just taking applications right now, we will be hiring in a few weeks." and i'm like "d'oh! i need a job now mfers!"

    now yesterday, one of the places calls me back and offers me a job. but its the place i wanted to work the least. so i think about it and decide that i'll be waiting forever if i don't just take this job cause i need money super bad. so of course, what happens today? oh, the place that i really wanted to work at, which is 3 blocks from my house, calls me back. GRA!

    and, to top that off, there is this super busy restaurant that i've been trying to get a job at for months that i finally got an interview at.

    this sucks.

    but i might try to get two of those jobs, i'm sure one of them will suck and i'll be glad i get to choose later!
    i'd rather be down the shore
    OH SNAP! guess where I am?

    I was living down the jersey shore before Jersey Shore.

    How does anyone even watch that show???

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    Rear Admiral Lower Half ChrisMG187's Avatar
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    Sounds like quite a predicament. I'm glad I don't have to get a real job yet.

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    two words : sugar daddy.
    I'm kidding.
    Personally, i'd just take both and drop the crappy one as you get busier. It isn't a reall big deal to turn them down right after working for them if you have a better offer later.

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    I so know how you feel. For about a two week time period, I was going to interviews at 2 places, and could also get my old job back. One was for the YMCA working as a child daycare councelor making $6.75 an hour, one was for a receptionist position making 7 or 8 ( I think ) and my old job was a junior loan processor making 9 an hour. I seriously contemplated going back to processing so I could make more money, but I knew that I didn't like the job or the atmosphere or the stress it was putting on my life, so in the end I settled for the Councelor only making $6.75 and for once I actually truley like my job and like getting up and going to work everyday. Try to find a job that no matter what mood you are in, you will be able to go to work and enjoy it.
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    It may be that your experience appears to be a little thin. When I click on the link in your sig (I'm using Netscape 6), this is what I get:
    <html><body></body></html>
    (In IE, it brings up your resume.)
    stay low... keep moving...

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    the more you put out there, the more chances you have of getting a job
    This is definitely true... if you're cute.
    Disclaimer - The above opinion should not be taken as medical advise. My only advise is to talk to your doctor. If you are stupid enough to take anything I say seriously, you have nobody to blame for your cranio-anal inversion but your stupid self.

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    Originally posted by Markel
    It may be that your experience appears to be a little thin. When I click on the link in your sig (I'm using Netscape 6), this is what I get:


    (In IE, it brings up your resume.)
    i know, my sister is good at dreamweaver, but only for IE... i have to fix the netscape bugs.

    AND CAN I JUST SAY I HAD THE WORST DAY EVER???
    seriously, i want to cry (or rather, i want to stop crying)

    i went to work at the one place tonight, and it COMPLETELY SUCKS
    i'm not in the mood to describe, but just take my word for it.

    and then i come home, and what do u know, i've got a ****ing boot on my car. which i'm SOOOOO PISSED about because i had moved my car 15 mintues prior, and it was right before i left to go to that horrible job.

    AND if i hadn't been at work, i would have seen them doing this and could have prevented it. or actually, i probably wouldnt have even been home, so it wouldn't have mattered.

    so, since that stupid place paid me a WHOPPING $15 for 5 hours of work, it's going to cost me $214 for today. (i'm thinking about calling the authorites on that)

    AND TO TOP IT OFF, i still haven't gotten my w2s from my old job, and i need them so i can try to get more financial aid from my school. (i have to prove that i made less in 2001 then in 2000.) but i can't call the IRS until friday. and hten on friday morning i have to go to school to finish a lab in the morning, so i can't do it until the afternoon. and then i get to call the obnoxious woman in payroll back at my former employer and make her give me my numbers over the phone (she wouldn't do it when i called the first time.)

    when will my life get better? will someone please tell me?
    i'd rather be down the shore
    OH SNAP! guess where I am?

    I was living down the jersey shore before Jersey Shore.

    How does anyone even watch that show???

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    Originally posted by styleee


    when will my life get better? will someone please tell me?
    I'm sorry that your life seems really really really crappy right now, when I get that way I think of two saying type things that always make me believe things will get better first is " everything will be okay in the end.....if it's not ok then it's not the end " and I totally lost the second one and if I remember it anytime soon I'll let you know. But I hope things do start to look up for you.
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    they stoop down to help a child" - Abraham Lincoln

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    Originally posted by ChrisMG187
    Sounds like quite a predicament. I'm glad I don't have to get a real job yet.
    yep me too

    that really sux styleee

    i have an answer for u it's right in this bottle i have right here....
    goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose goose

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    Originally posted by styleee

    <snip>

    when will my life get better? will someone please tell me?
    Hang in there. Good things will come your way. Remember that what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. I know that many times I've felt like the world was crumbling in front of my eyes but you gotta keep going. Just don't give up, alright?

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