Current music:	DKs- Holiday in Cambodia
Entry tags:	angst, free stuff, home life, music, photo, severin, teh cat, unemployment, work

Right Guard will not help you here
Four months. Four fucking months, and I've still got nothing.

foolsomebodyelse: i know you've been having suicidal thoughts ali, but joining the army is not the way to act on them.
escalator guru: Dude, even the supermarket won't hire me.

For those of you who are quietly observing like my job search is some kind of ten-car highway disaster, here's a short list of places I've applied to in the last 48 hours; I've marked which are repeat applications.

-Lowell General Hospital (ER Tech, Periop Tech)
-Sovereign Bank
-Butler Bank (never heard of it either)
-Lowell Five
-Citizens Bank
-Transportation Security Administration (baggage screener at MHT, BOS, LEB)
-Skilsoft (I don't know if this went through, I never got the confirmation)
-Some sports photography sales firm
-ADP (yeah, the place that I used to work-- different campus though)
-Laidlaw (y'know, the people who drive buses. I have no qualms about slapping a turbo on a school bus.)
-Borders
-Barnes and Noble
-Old Navy

and here's the kicker...

-Hesser College. Y'know, the school that booted me? They're looking for admissions reps and student accounts reps. Hmm.

For those of you keeping count at home, that's 21 jobs I've applied for... in two days. See if you can count how many times I've violated Sacred Rules of Friendship by appling for certain positions.

I think I have the best shot at Lowell General, though. For one, I'm proficient in English. My aunt is some kind of head case management nurse at the hospital as well, so I think she can probably pull some strings for me. Assuming that she doesn't completely hate me like I normally think she does, that is.

Tomorrow, I try:
-IRS
-USPS
-Westford House (extended care facility)
-St. Joseph Hospital

Other possibilities:
-Compensated egg donation (I can bring in about $5k each round, with all expenses paid)
-Compensated sham marriage ($7k and a two-year fake committment to a Russian man with a girlfriend in the US. Gotta love Craigslist)

The fantastic mattlach is going to check with his company (some kind of medical supply joint) to see if they need assemblers, it seems like the kind of thing I could work second shift at and be fine with. The problem is that the factory is somewhere in the Greater Boston area (and I am, unfortunately, not). I should also mention that the transmission in my car is about to literally drop out of it, and although I've changed the fluid twice in the past month it's not helping much anymore. The other car has a perfect transmission but a (possibly) bad engine and needs more work than I can put into it right now with what I have. I'm also not so keen on driving that much. But I'll take what I can get, at this point.


And as if things could get any better, I can't fucking sleep. I've started to have those bizarre hey look, maybe he's not an asshole after all! dreams again, so I'm trying not to confuse myself further by sleeping and having them.

On the upside, I have discovered that in addition to being awesome, my slippers are also effective cat discipline tools.

"Chuck, meet Brian. Now get off my motherfucking desk."

I had a brief, but hilarious conversation with my mom this morning about aforementioned cat.
(series of thumps, probably cat-related)
A: What could he possibly be so excited about?
M: I don't know.
A: Whoopee, I'm a cat!
M: There are... things!


I've been listening to this an awful lot, I blame my Dad. Here ya go. Freebie. Right-click, save-as.

Dead Kennedys- Holiday in Cambodia