I have explosively painful sinuses, and will go to the doctor tomorrow if they're not better by then. I don't think they're infected, since my snot is clear and pleasant. But it's incredibly painful and debilitating. It makes me want to lie down and do nothing. In spite of this, I went to yet another job fair today.
You know, I'd really like a place to write things down where they weren't subjected to the leering plastic dumb-faces of all you fucking idiot-assholes. I think maybe it's diary time. This blog can suck it. I have nothing but contempt and hostility for the other, and writing in this forum where the other can download my personal thoughts so easily is starting to really piss me off.
God, I hate people.
At the behest of my employment counselor, I attended a job fair in dc the other day. It was educational and highly depressing at the same time. As you might imagine, every booth that I approached said the same thing: 'sure, we'll take your resume, but the best thing to do would be to go to our website and apply online.' this is understandable -- there are getting to be just too many people in the world and in the workforce to do it any other way. But this also means that people with joke resumes (such as myself) get the short end of the stick.
I have no work experience to speak of, no skills to speak of, and no real job objective. I was looking on usajobs.com, and gave up the account-creation process when I was asked to specify what sort of job I am looking for. I'm not really qualified for any one particular thing. Instead, my resume points to 'general purpose entry-level paper-shuffler.' this is not what people are looking to hire. Another problem is the computer skills that I list on my resume. Potential employers see this, and say 'oh, you're a computer person! We contract out on all of our IT needs.' the thing is, I don't have enough skills to work in IT. In terms of computers, I fall somewhere between the average person and an IT employee. Should I not list these skills? It's also doubtful that I will get a job playing guitar. But I like to list these skills, as well as my computer skills and art skills. It's what I do -- it's what I'm proud of.
I suspect that the only thing I am allowed to do in the job market is peon jobs in restaurant and retail -- job application-jobs. The kind of jobs i had when I was still in high school. Is this just what I get for majoring in art? I'm in a similar boat as people fresh out of college (which I am, sort of). What's the normal thing to do under these circumstances? I suspect that the path to go might be 1) administrative assistant 2) temp agency or, as I said, 3) restaurant-retail.
TACKER: barnacle () SUBJECT: .. Who won ? - do you actually care. DATE: 13-Nov-04 02:16:44 HOST: sverige >I'm genuinely interested to hear why (someone might) think that >"republicanism" (or whatever GW Bush apparently espouses) is the best >solution for society. conservatism is a comfortingly simple way of looking at the world. If a potential american leader can convince citizens who might want, for whatever reason, to believe that the world really is this simple (things CAN stay the same, even though the world is obviously in flux), then he tends to get elected. This probably wouldn't fly in other countries. The problem is, the united states is so powerful that the leader can actually start to deliver this fairy tale. it's not the best solution for society on the whole -- in the usa, the republican or conservative or right-wing thought-model (if I can even generalize it) isn't concerned with the brotherhood of man, but rather the interests of the citizenry. However, even if you buy that this is an acceptable way for a nation-state to behave, antibush folks tend to argue that what bush does isn't in the best interest of even the usa, but is rather a corporate-minded grab-bag approach that is childishly ignorant of even the most rudimentary considerations of the future (example: drilling for oil in alaskan national parks). However, probush folks don't see bush's policies as damaging to america in the long run -- not only are those policies good for america in the short term (war-time economy), but they pan out on the horizon as well. And really, it's speculation either way. it isn't my place to say who's right. I don't like the bandwagon approach to political thought. This is hard to avoid in a two-party system -- either you're for bush or you're against him. Furthermore, in this climate things are particularly polarized: americans either love bush or hate him, it seems. But, even with these cautions in place, I don't think I like bush. Just a feeling I have, I guess. One has to trust one's intuition -- there's just no way to gather enough objective data from the media for an analytical approach. i think bush might be extremely dangerous, especially now, with the confidence-building mandate of the popular vote behind him. I've heard that comparing bush to hitler is offensive not only to conservatives but to jews (particularly holocaust survivors), so I'm loath to do it. Stalin, mussolini, maybe? >greedy rich people simply appear to be lining their own pockets at the >expense of others and society haven't you ever heard of the trickle-down effect? Reaganomics 101 ;) this starts probing some deeper issues. Every government since the dawn of civilization has been made up of a few rich people who lord over the vast majority of poorer others -- various permutations of aristocracy. It might not be realistic to rail against this with fantasies like socialism or anarchism. But, maybe compromise is possible, and so is moving along a continuum. also, it seems that the media does make bush out to be more fiscally conservative than he really is; I don't think he's as right-wing as reagan on the economic front. He might be a war hawk, but he's not out to exterminate the homeless or anything like that. Of course, I don't know what I'm talking about, because I don't have any data. Getting all of, or even enough of, the data to make political statements like these would take up all of a person's time. So all we can do is make intuitive rants on the SFD bboard that affect no-one. C'est la vie. >The majority of americans arent in that category so what gives? i always used to think it was strange the way the lower middle class often votes republican. But then I realized that, like most things, political thought isn't as simple as being determined by one factor. I think a walmart manager earning $18,000 a year in kansas who votes for bush probably does so more because he thinks conservatism and bush's dualism is simple and appealing -- a (mis)application of occam's razor. The manager probably doesn't entertain any fantasies of becoming a rich robber baron under capitalism. He just thinks bush, the conservative, will keep things the same, which is the definition of conservatism (keeping things the same) -- walmart manager gets to safely keep what he has. Fear seems to be an important motive of conservatism, especially after 9-11. Maybe the usa won't see a liberal president for a while. i don't really think I answered any of your questions, gug -- actually, I'm pretty sure I added to them. Oh well...that's the way things usually work :)