A Life Being Lived

Yeah yeah, I know, it’s been a while blah blah blah.

Hey, I’ve been busy. Kind of. It’s hard work being unemployed and broke: there’s non-cable TV to watch, there’s interweb to browse, there’s soccer to play.

There are jobs to find (or so I hear), there is school to back to, and there is financial aid to apply for so that school can be paid for.

There are social events to attend (if they’re sufficiently cheap or paid for by a friend), there are dates to take the girl on (again, budget dependent), and there are soccer games to watch and write about.

I also keep myself occupied being completely useless and roaming about town aimlessly.

Progress on the job search is as follows: No one wants to hire me. I haven’t applied for a McJob or at a call center yet, I’m trying to save those for worst case scenarios, but of all of the interviews I’ve been on I’ve gotten exactly zero calls back. Maybe it’s time to go to DEFCON 3.

Sidenote: I’m pretty sure that Mr. Obama is wrong when he says the recession is over and things are getting back to normal. Maybe he could come to Ohio and talk to 10-12% of the population, just to see what we think.

But, the other side of that coin is that I’ve finally decided to go back to school. Since I’m going to be working my fingers to the bone for the next 50 years or more I might as well get a job doing something I love and maximize my income potential along the way. As much as I hate to admit it the only way to do those two things without winning the lottery or finding oil in my backyard is to get a degree.

But my parents have been telling me that for the past 5 10 15 20 years.

So it’s off to DeVry with me, looking for a degree in graphic design. Three years from now I’ll finally be a college grad. Better late than never, right?

So that’s the main news of life. I’ve got a few other tricks up my sleeve: I’m contemplating writing some fiction; I’m thinking of branching out my blogging “career”; I’m probably going to give up drinking anything but water. These are things that I’ve always thought of doing, just to see what it’s like, and there’s no time like the present.

I’ll keep ya’ll posted on how it all goes. Hopefully more than twice a month. I swear I keep meaning to post but every time I sit down to do it something really cool comes on PBS…yada yada.