Getting a Job :(

I really don't wanna get a job. It isn't because I am lazy, it's because most of the corporations out there are so greedy and evil, and I don't wanna take their money for myself. But at the same time, if I had money I would be able to use it to furthur my protesting, and donate to political organizations and stuff. And i would also be able to support my litttle pot hobby, haha.

Peace and Love,
Dan

 

just find a gig with a small business that aligns themselves with your belief system. Also, believe it or not, there are plenty of people in this country who make a living as lobbyists where protesting and supporting political agendas is their job. There are alternatives.

 

working for a small business is where it is at. I don't think I caould go back to working for a big corporation. Also you have an awesome name Angel headed hipster.

 

Yes, small business > corporation. I work in a small office with about 10 or so others, and it definitely beats working for a big business. Although if Gamestop or Electronic Boutique were hiring, I would definitely have to reconsider.

 

Thanks buddy, i got it from Allen Ginsberg's Poem "Howl", if you havn't read it before, you should...

http://alt.venus.co.uk/weed/writings/poems/agh.htm

Peace and Love,
Dan

 

That is a great poem. It is also the title of a kerouac biography.

 

I need a small business to work for. I've been getting hassled a lot from my grandparents (whom I live with) about getting a job and they're threatening to kick me out if I don't get one soon. I mean, I already have a job working for my cousin, babysitting her three year old for $100 a month, but they keep telling me that's "not a real job". A local grocery store called me wanting to hire me as a deli worker, but I turned them down because of my views on factory farming and veganism. That really upset them. I explained to them that I didn't want to work there, but I have a feeling they just think I'm some lazy kid makin up excuses. My grandma doesn't really take vegetarianism/veganism seriously, my grandpa even less seriously (he keeps telling me how vegetarians/vegans are less healthy because they don't eat meat and blah blah blah) so I know they would just laugh at me and tell me to get serious about life if I told them that was my reason. I won't work at fast food places or Wal-Mart so I keep having to lie to them about turning in applications and I think it's bullshit that I have to lie to them in order to make them happy, while it makes me sad. But I think I've come to the point where I'd rather be honest with them and have them not like me and kick me out, than be miserable in my own home.
Hopefully some of my small town businesses will call me soon, but it's been so hard to get a job in my small town.
Good luck

 

Yeah, my problem is that I kinda want to work (I used to actually want to) for the money so I can get a car in 4 months so I can drive myself around. I have places to go! But for the past two years, I have applied and never been hired, not even close to being hired. I almost was hired at one place, but they assumed that I was older than I was, so I wasted an hour filling out an application, talking to the manager, and being interviewed. Damn corporate bullshit.



But now that I have contemplated the reality of having a job, I think that if I ever did get hired, I would get sick of the people real fast, get sick of the job, or just get bored. I get bored very easily when confined or restricted. By others or myself. Heh.



I have a hippie friend who has worked for this guy for three years now, doing work around this guy yard/house. And apparently other people work with him too. And they can even get away with smoking pot there...I would work there, but it' kinda far for me etc.



How do you go about finding a job at a small business anyway??

 

Mostly through nepotism. With a lot of small businesses, it's who you know and not what you know. Local newspapers are good too, the only employers who use Monster.com and things like that are big corporations.

 

Yeah, I've got all those kinds of ideas. What do you mean by "party-plan type thing"?

 

OH MY GOD!! NOT A JOB!! Dam lazy peeps Money makes the world go round n round n round

 

Work sucks!

 

I think money makes the world slow down.

 

Only if you make it.

 

Problem is I emit the wonderful scent of free loving non corporate fug you. It's in my bones. Finding a small busyness is relative to location. Some places, like Tejas, it's a bit tough. I'm handloading trailers on the weekends to get by. 12 horas 3 diaz of pure g'damn, this sucks, bite me, I'll see you tomorrow. If I do well I could be a fuggin 'coach' and scoot around on some psuedo golf cart standing up and lookin' cool. Weird part is I think about some 10 year old kid in some sweat shop somewhere gettin' smacked because he had to take a piss. I can piss freely, he he, but, I'm loading crap onto the back of a truck for some shmuck who thinks he's got it made when he's only 3 payments from shocking the neighbors with his instant poverty. I mean, what the fug does somebody need a g'dam 700 dollar toilet for? Who the fug pays that much for a crapper? Somebody does because I'm loading it all day. Some jerkoff just spent more than my weeks pay on a fuggin toilet. A toilet that was probably made by the poor 10 year old who isn't allowed to take a piss or he'll get fired. How ironic and so realisticly perverse is that? If I met that kid, I'd gladly hand over my job and go back to dumpster diving because to him it would probably be the shiznit. Things are really fugged up in my country.

 

the trick is to find what you love to do, or atleast what you can stand for now, because as drumminmamma said (or atleast basicly/partly) sometimes you gotta play the game to get out of it. Yeah, babylon sucks, but it's there and we gotta live with it till we can leave.

Follow your instincts too, I was feeling like working in a pre-school would be good for me, so I contacted a woman who taught me in pre-school and now owns her own, and I got a teacher's aid job part time after school, they're training me to teach, and I've found something that I really really love. I've wanted to be a musician since I was 3, but now I have this too, and that's a really beautiful thing.

trust your instincts, and if you can't find something you love, then get a job that pays, save up and get yourself to the woods!

 

i suggest working in a library. i did for most of highschool.

working for the governmet? well, yeah. but then again, what's more hip then the free exchange of ideas?

 

Sounds to me like somebody is LAZY!!