My Dog is Chelsea

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• 1 jaqz // Nov 27, 2005 at 7:12 pm

  ha.you have all and none of my sympathy. and tonight, well, damn. that’s pretty good considering.babe, i really hope you find your thing. someone like you needs it…and deserves it. if only coz the rest of us selfish bastards could only benifit by it. and those are my only words of wisdom tonight. aren’t you lucky? you cought me between blood clots. pfft.

• 2 Gabe_Real // Nov 27, 2005 at 7:34 pm

  You will find a job that you will enjoy…  Positive Vibes that it will pay as much as you enjoy it…PS.  “qa” may just be quality assurance… ?

• 3 Jay_galk25 // Nov 27, 2005 at 8:12 pm

  What scares me is being 25 and not working towards anything remotely worthwhile….
  Jay {you open your mouth and I’m grounded once more} “Rawr”

• 4 TimsHead // Nov 28, 2005 at 12:42 am

  If that person writes for radio, it’s probably for the best that no one else has to see his/her lack of writing skills.Never is a mighty long time. Today does not equal infinity. I have more similar cliches if you need them. Good luck!

• 5 Rod_Lamour // Nov 28, 2005 at 1:32 am

  This is everyones fear..it will pass….you are a gifted andheartfelt writer…your success is imminent, the road to that success will have many twists and turns all fodder for the written word. Do not despair,in the meantime find a job thathas the least stress and the most financial return…waitress!!!! I did it for years when I was an actorand many a a days I left with a couple of hundred bucks in mypocket ,more than enough to keep a roof over your head and the Chello in dog biscuits….Hugs ,Uncle Joe

• 6 thinlizzy17 // Nov 28, 2005 at 3:25 am

  Hm.  I’ve had jobs I’ve enjoyed and jobs I’ve hated.  I’m a little on the fence about the one I have right now, but I mostly like it.  I’d say, though, it can’t hurt to try a couple of things that sound like they *might* be interesting and see where they lead.  Often first jobs can be parlayed into second jobs that are a little more like what you envision yourself doing.  (or where you’ll meet people who would be willing to give you a job where you didn’t know one existed.)  I had a job right out of college that I thought I’d like.  I hated it.  BUT I did learn a couple of things, like how do do massive fundraiser events and how to do grant writing.  I was able to take those things and turn them into marketable skills for my next job, which I liked a lot more.  The take home message here is do not despair – I’m sure you’ll find something that works.  And if it doesn’t, there are always other jobs, too.

• 7 geekgoddiss // Nov 28, 2005 at 4:17 am

  I know exactly how you feel. I dread getting up each day because I am so dissatisfied with my current job. And I look for jobs, and I get more discouraged because I feel like I’m either unqualified for anything I want or it doesn’t pay enough or I need more schooling (uh, please, no). I keep hoping a door will open where I don’t take a cut in pay to get the hell out of the job I’m in.

• 8 mundanelunacy // Nov 28, 2005 at 9:06 am

  my friend who is a musician and is signed to a record label told me this one time: “anyone who is a musician to make money has to be insane!”

• 9 aropeofsand // Nov 28, 2005 at 10:13 am

  I always kind of wanted to be an art teacher. Like, the hippy art teacher that wants everyone to pass.
  It could be worse though. The only job listings could be “stealing fruit off the back of trucks” or doing laundry at a prison or something.

• 10 fern_forest // Nov 28, 2005 at 1:32 pm

  god, i’ve had umpteen waitressing and barista jobs to make me appreciate working in environmental science even if my boss is a total asshole.  and even though i like what i am doing, i don’t like my job every day.  you are a great writer.  if that is what you want to do then keep at it.  keep on keepin’ on.  it’ll happen.  it will.

• 11 jaqz // Nov 28, 2005 at 1:38 pm

  dude, the water TOTALLY helps. it’s the best thing for it. i work in kitchens, so it’s not hard to wanna stay hydrated!!! when i stop drinking water, i notice the difference in less than a week. that shit is totally frustrating, man, i really hope it works for ya. also, i can’t use soaps much coz my face is sensitive, but there’s a clear unscented soap call Tersaseptic that i use, and it’s really really good. it’s medicated with…lemme check. Triclosan. it’s great…adnd doesn’t dry the hell outta your skin. hope you can find somethin like it. also, they say cucumbers work really well. eat em!

• 12 Gnarlysurf // Nov 28, 2005 at 1:56 pm

  Perhaps you could be a professional blogger?

• 13 TimsHead // Nov 28, 2005 at 2:18 pm

  ryc: The main difference between the $5 of the 1934 series is that under the words Five Dollars toward the bottom of the bill, it reads: Payable in silver to the bearer on demand. I guess they hadn’t switched over to the greenback system yet and money was still printed against silver? It’s a complicated historic trend, but they used to only print so much money because the supply was weighted against the amount of silver the government had in the mint. Or some such thing … but, yeah, otherwise they look similar to today’s money.

• 14 MaximaBella // Nov 28, 2005 at 2:58 pm

  Well, I dont care if you ever find a job or not…because I am just way to impressed with the fact that you are in fact educated! That you are 10x the writer I am, the speller I am, and your punctuation is FABO!
  No, honestly, I wish you the best..I hope you find something you enjoy..
  Like I said, one day…Id like you to help me write my memoirs…
  what do they call those ppl? Be one of them…
  btw, your OR coast pics, totally relaxed me aaaaaaaawwww, I love it here!

• 15 chicagoartgirl23 // Nov 28, 2005 at 6:55 pm

  uggg. I know the feeling. When applying for jobs, i thought, “god kill me if I have to start applying for marketing positions.” Low and behold, it came down to that (damn cost of living/monster student loan nipping at my heels!!). It turns out no one was hiring any one to be Fabulous-Superstar-Celebrities (With Brains!) as I had planned. But luckily I ended up marketing museum exhibitions, not stuff, so it’s not as bad and I get to learn alot that I never knew. But it requires a cubicle and all the crap that goes along with that. I do things that are completely against my human nature. If I did not have an exit plan, a happy life, and forward momentum (writing classes, publication, and all that fun stuff) I think my often-times stuffy job would completely suck the life out of me. As long as you keep writing and have your eye on the prize, you are moving forward–and you are.

• 16 StigmataMartyr42 // Nov 29, 2005 at 2:02 am

  Yo dude, I meant no offense when I said your Uncle Joe looks like Santa Claus, I thought it was rather cool. One of my cousins looks like the singer from POD, and his wife looks like Christina Aguilera.
  I am sure if you gave teaching a chance, you might enjoy it. Give it a try. I tutor in my part time job and it makes me want to be a teacher already. Then I go into my full time job and wonder if I am destined to wallow in the mundane, serving uptight people overpriced food that makes no impact on their pockets whatsoever.
  Hey, would you read something I wrote and tell me if it sucks? I love your writing and your opinion I’d honestly appreciate.
  Take care.