A penny earned

[shortsboy]

I don't know, it's a rather bleak outlook. Sit on a couch in my parents house on welfare, be kicked out and live homeless, scrounging for pennies. Commit some relatively victimless crime and risk soapy shower time and throat slitting for a nice 3x3m cell, regular meals and forced labour. Or I could find a nice ceiling fixture and a length of rope.

Wasn't life simpler when we were uneducated peasants who had no option but to work our farm or we would starve to death.

Well, that certainly made me sound bad. So weak and whiny that I would rather allude to suicide than contribute to society and do some work. My mind is mush and my hands are soft, unnacustomed to anything but a smart phone.

That whole spiel was quite pathetic, I just don't see myself being taken in as an employee anywhere.

I'll get what I deserve. Isn't it amusing that all that really matters in life is that you work and make money for society. You think we'd have made robots to run everything, maybe in a century or two.

I have to agree with catholic nun.

If you can't take the plunge and try things beyond your comfort zone, you could be in the same position in 5 years time... 10 year time or longer. And the longer you wait the harder it is to break the cycle.

You'd be surprised what you can achieve once you get started. Confidence is built through achievement, so the more you do the more confident you become. That confidence will help in all areas of your life. Plus you get some spending money and independence.



on topic, I work as an engineer

 

[Limey-chan]

I'm also a Shift Supervisor/Team Leader at my job, and it's.. ehhh, okay I guess. I'm in a lot better position than I was at this stage 18 or so months ago, anyway.

I'm hoping i'll get to move on to some sort of management training programme and see if I can go from there. Apparently having something like that on your CV opens all sorts of opportunities for you.

 

[Sammi]

You're going back to school?! What happened to the pizza place and management and stuff?

I'm not attending school, just working at the one in town. I'm still too broke for school. I'm too broke for life right now. ;____;

tl;dr they shut down our pizza place in late February. They told us we were closing the day we closed. We heard wind of it the day before, because someone came and told us they'd bought our dough machine, which is kind of important for a pizza place. I got a bit of severance pay, but it wasn't enough to keep me current on my bills.
I was super duper lucky, one of my old bosses from the pizza place works at this current job and was still in touch with all of us, even though she'd moved on. I was offered the job that day, and was officially hired 2 weeks later. She is the best boss. :D

I'm actually a manager at the new place too. Just didn't mention it in post. They call the position a 'lead' which is kinda silly.

 

[Shining Raichu]

OMG that's so strange! Thank God you landed squarely on your feet though.