For Sale: MY SOUL! CHEAP! (1202 hits)
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Submitted by shadow (View user info) at 2004-10-07 14:03:39 EDT
I've hit a new low. I work at Hot Topic.
Yep. I started today. A part time job to supplement my income. One more obligation to fill up my precious time. One more dollar to give back to the corporate system which holds me hostage in it's deep fried sugar coated industrial strength claws. How did this happen? It all started with ECI and the University of Maryland...
ECI was my first "real world" computer experience. I was writing code for developing software interfaces, I was programming complex animations for big corporations to slap on their front page, I was working full time on a twenty hour a week salary cap and I was in school full time as well. I fried my brain, quit the job and changed my major.
For the first time in my short life, I was completely without direction. Fearing a life sentence in the corporate world of cubicles and upper-middle management, I took a crappy part time job and continued to wander through my classes in a daze.
I put my tuition on my credit card because I couldn't afford to pay it all at once. I got a new crappy job. I got deeper in debt. I had to work more to bring home the same. I began failing classes- I never failed classes!
I got a job at an auto garage, full time while taking a full time course load at school. I failed more classes. My flatmate abandoned me with thousands in debt and an apt I couldn't afford. I found new roommates who also can't pay rent.
So, when I was walking through the mall on my lunchbreak, and the cute goth with black hair asked me if I wanted a job, I said sure. I can use the extra money, even if it is half of what I make at the garage. It's just two days a week. Just two more days of work, two more shifts, and a healthy discount on clothes I can't afford right now.
Hey Razor, where's that sweet job you promised? I know, still waiting for clients to sign their contracts.
Hey dad, you said you'd be there if I needed help! I know, you're pissed that I keep fucking up in school, I'm 21 and you're not obligated to me any more.
And yet...
I'd rather live in poverty on my own than comfortably on a lonely velvet cusion. And besides, all the girls at Hot Topic are cute, and the manager is the girlfriend of the guy that owns the tattoo parlor where I had my tattoo done, so maybe I can squeeze in new piece on my budget.
Ah, the glory of America, working 60 hours a week just to graduate someday and get a job. That's what it's all about.
So if anybody out there needs a chainmailer (I'm pretty good) a singer, a guitarist, a crappy programmer, a geologist, a mechanic, an artist or just someone to get the coffee, let me know. My soul's for sale, cheap.
User Reviews
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2007-06-16 14:32:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Or am I...
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2007-06-16 14:32:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Your problem is just that you can do all these things, but you're still mediocre at every one of them.
Just kidding. :]
Submitted by blonde (user info) at 2007-06-16 14:10:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Been there... 3 jobs and full time classes. I worked at American Eagle, though. That was my crappy overwored, underpaid retail job... Hot Topic was right next door!
Submitted by Degreeless_Capibara (user info) at 2004-10-08 23:22:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
That sucks. I know what you're going through, and right now, my mom is paying a big chunk of my tuition.
Submitted by gain (user info) at 2004-10-08 23:07:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I'm looking for a drummer.
Ah screw it. Even Hot Topic employees deserve better than that.
Submitted by Dead_0hi0_Sky (user info) at 2004-10-08 22:44:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
hahaha, Ikeya boy.
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2004-10-08 22:33:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
aj you fag
Submitted by Quartermain (user info) at 2004-10-07 22:00:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I'm sure all the pentgram wearing pseudo-Goth death metal poseurs you'll doubt be afflicted with in the guise of customers and co-workers would take your soul off your hands for you.
Of course they wouldn't really know what to do with it, and you in turn would become an revenant or some other unholy thing of evil and then your life would really start the downward spiral.
Submitted by mikethescottish (user info) at 2004-10-07 21:40:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Dry your eyes mate.
Could be worse, you could be living in Glasgow.
Submitted by DonkeyOnTheEdge (user info) at 2004-10-07 21:30:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Thank you for making me feel better about being a lazy dick.
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2004-10-07 21:22:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Thor, you cunt, get on MSN.
Submitted by Thor (user info) at 2004-10-07 21:18:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
there is a vacancy for ubermadness opponent that has been open for some time...
Submitted by NerfHerder (user info) at 2004-10-07 20:54:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
mmmm.. paying for college.
Submitted by Supreme_Overlord (user info) at 2004-10-07 15:42:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Please, there are enough crappy programmers in the world already. And they love to take job opportunities away from good ones.
Submitted by Avals (user info) at 2004-10-07 15:13:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Go into porn; that'll cover your debts pretty damn quick.
hidden101 - your friend is gay if I ever saw one!
Submitted by Lea (user info) at 2004-10-07 15:08:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
you werent mean on my first post, and gave some hints. +2s till January.
Submitted by original_cola (user info) at 2004-10-07 14:59:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
nice...you know C++? i have a friend that needs a programmer. no im not screwin around.
briancte.at.hotmail.com
Submitted by hidden101 (user info) at 2004-10-07 14:47:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
you can move in with me and Crash. he's the one in the black, and he's lonely- http://stuff.ubersite.com/106599468342782124/1/crash_ld.jpg
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2004-10-07 14:35:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
chainmaile like the armour... and toys ;)
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2004-10-07 14:34:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
thanx, I love you guys.
I was offered a job Sunday by a representative of Bridge Technology Corp. but I'd have to quit school to take it. What's more important, school or money?
That's a tough choice, though school is supposed to provide money eventually, it's bleeding me dry right now.
Submitted by AwesomeJohnson (user info) at 2004-10-07 14:33:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
do you chainmail like the armor, or chainmail like "send this to 10 people?"
Submitted by JMG114 (user info) at 2004-10-07 14:32:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Give me a discount on Invader ZIM merchandise.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2004-10-07 14:30:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 From a fellow Terp
Alum though.
Oh and I love that Tuition more than doubled while I was there. That was so awesome. Oh and the KnoxBox sucks DON'T EVER live there
Submitted by jonukah (user info) at 2004-10-07 14:28:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
And now there are even more cute girls working in hot-topic.
Submitted by GodLovesALittleLovin (user info) at 2004-10-07 14:11:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Oh dear god. Hot Topic? Isn't that the store in the mall that's always packed with 15-year old goth kids buying chains and whatnot?
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2004-10-07 14:10:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Good to hear from you, Jen, even if on unpleasant terms.
I'm afraid I can't help w/ the monetary situation unless you add "call-girl" to the list, though.
;)
Things'll get better eventually.
You're a smart girl, you'll get something figured out.