When Things Don't Go Right
The hipster children in LA really need to stop trying to make the high-waisted 70s/80s inspired short-shorts work. You're only making yourself into premature middle-aged women with mom belly pouches, doesn't matter how thin you are. No. It's not flattering. Stop.
Speaking of LA, I was sort of offered a job there last Friday with Grassroots Campaigns. It wasn't a for sure position, because I still need to accept it and they need to again make an official offer after a second interview, but I think I'm not going to take it after all. It's in Westwood. I thought about commuting for awhile until I saved up to move out there, but... it's commission-based canvassing and political organizing (at first). I have to meet a quota. Meeting the quota, I could not live on whatever I made that way; I'd have to make way beyond quota and use a 30% commission to pay me enough per week. They said they could see me as a Field Manager pretty quickly upon starting the gig, but with the money so variant and the need to make much more, I don't think I can handle the stress of both the mind-melting commute--worrying about crazies on the metrolink or getting killed in an accident during traffic--as well as stressing about raising money over quota weekly, just by convincing strangers on the street of my cause. Technically, needing the money could drive me to do better with raising money, but I'm just not the kind of person that drives in a competitive commission-based environment.
Don't get me wrong: I want to work with political non-profits and I want to work with the public. But right now, with my amount of debt and with me still living at home, I don't think this is the way to go about it. I need to pay off a sizeable amound of debt first and then move out. So, I gotta call and let them know I'm not going tomorrow. Sigh.
The good news is that I think I'm getting more from unemployment than originally thought. It's been confusing. My second check is double what I got before, but it's also for two weeks' worth of pay. So I guess I need to wait for one more check to be certain as to how much I'll be getting. Whatever it is, it's definitely enough to pay bills. From here, I'll just keep searching for work.
GOD I am so sick of posting about job crap. Blah blah blah. I'm going to refrain from talking about this from now on, unless I for sure get a job somewhere, like, I accept it and start and everything. Otherwise, no. But I have to say that I underestimated how much California's (especially souther California's) job market BLOWS right now. Lucky me.
So anyway. Can I rant for a moment about something? Ads. Ads are fucking everywhere, as we know, and they've been on the internet for forever, but I can't help but notice some more "sophisticated" (or rather, intrusive) forms I've come across lately. Do all links have to fucking trigger a pop-up ad window now? I have a "basic" account on LJ and yet, unless I'm signed in, my main journal page has ads all the hell over it. And even when I am signed in, ads ads ads all over the welcome space. Ads that pop out, ads that pop out when you accidentally hover over them. Bottom line is: I hate ads, they are fucking annoying, and THEY ARE GOING OVERBOARD. I'm not more likely to buy any of this shit just because I am constantly bombarded by some bullshit telling me to buy whatever.
I don't even enjoy reading GoFugYourself anymore because the site has become so horribly littered with HUGE in-your-face advertising (for stupid shit like The Hills, but I guess that's the audience) that it's hard to notice the posts themselves. Which, incidentally, are not that funny anymore. I don't know why I'm still subscribed to them. I guess I read it on the off chance that there will be the occasional crazy outfit and fittingly crazy/hilarious post accompanying it. But it rarely ever happens now. Sigh. Times have changed indeed.
Anyway, so yeah. The internet is getting annoying. Ads are getting more aggressive on facebook too, which used to be less crowded with ad space than myspace, but now that it's more popular I guess it's natural that the ads would move over there. FUCKING advertisements. I hate them so much. Ugh. I could rant for days about this. I think it makes society sick, honestly. That might sounds extreme, but I'm serious. I guess the upside is that I'll spend less time on the computer because I'm annoyed with it otherwise.
In other news, I'm going to start a Day Zero Project (search it. I'm not linking you.), much like
cage_this did. Hehe. I still have to add about 40 things to it in order to get to 101 projects, but I've got some good stuff so far. I think I'm going to launch it on Samhain, being a new year of sorts. Oh yes, speaking of which, I've been getting back into pagan ways. Not full on, but slowly and in small ways. It makes me happy, and jives well with my going-back-to-nature/DIY/yoga/meditative self. So I'm looking forward to the Day Zero thing. :)
In other other news, I've been studying Tarot quite a bit lately, and getting much better! I read for my mom last night, and I didn't do too badly. She said it was accurate. Of course, it's not a matter of the cards being accurate so much as my interpretation of them. But it's fun and exciting to be studying them and getting better at it. I always wanted to kick ass at reading Tarot. I want to re-learn the gypsy cards too, since my aunt taught me and they're much simpler than the Tarot. ^-^
Anyhoo. That's all for now. Hope everyone on my f-list is doing well. :)
Speaking of LA, I was sort of offered a job there last Friday with Grassroots Campaigns. It wasn't a for sure position, because I still need to accept it and they need to again make an official offer after a second interview, but I think I'm not going to take it after all. It's in Westwood. I thought about commuting for awhile until I saved up to move out there, but... it's commission-based canvassing and political organizing (at first). I have to meet a quota. Meeting the quota, I could not live on whatever I made that way; I'd have to make way beyond quota and use a 30% commission to pay me enough per week. They said they could see me as a Field Manager pretty quickly upon starting the gig, but with the money so variant and the need to make much more, I don't think I can handle the stress of both the mind-melting commute--worrying about crazies on the metrolink or getting killed in an accident during traffic--as well as stressing about raising money over quota weekly, just by convincing strangers on the street of my cause. Technically, needing the money could drive me to do better with raising money, but I'm just not the kind of person that drives in a competitive commission-based environment.
Don't get me wrong: I want to work with political non-profits and I want to work with the public. But right now, with my amount of debt and with me still living at home, I don't think this is the way to go about it. I need to pay off a sizeable amound of debt first and then move out. So, I gotta call and let them know I'm not going tomorrow. Sigh.
The good news is that I think I'm getting more from unemployment than originally thought. It's been confusing. My second check is double what I got before, but it's also for two weeks' worth of pay. So I guess I need to wait for one more check to be certain as to how much I'll be getting. Whatever it is, it's definitely enough to pay bills. From here, I'll just keep searching for work.
GOD I am so sick of posting about job crap. Blah blah blah. I'm going to refrain from talking about this from now on, unless I for sure get a job somewhere, like, I accept it and start and everything. Otherwise, no. But I have to say that I underestimated how much California's (especially souther California's) job market BLOWS right now. Lucky me.
So anyway. Can I rant for a moment about something? Ads. Ads are fucking everywhere, as we know, and they've been on the internet for forever, but I can't help but notice some more "sophisticated" (or rather, intrusive) forms I've come across lately. Do all links have to fucking trigger a pop-up ad window now? I have a "basic" account on LJ and yet, unless I'm signed in, my main journal page has ads all the hell over it. And even when I am signed in, ads ads ads all over the welcome space. Ads that pop out, ads that pop out when you accidentally hover over them. Bottom line is: I hate ads, they are fucking annoying, and THEY ARE GOING OVERBOARD. I'm not more likely to buy any of this shit just because I am constantly bombarded by some bullshit telling me to buy whatever.
I don't even enjoy reading GoFugYourself anymore because the site has become so horribly littered with HUGE in-your-face advertising (for stupid shit like The Hills, but I guess that's the audience) that it's hard to notice the posts themselves. Which, incidentally, are not that funny anymore. I don't know why I'm still subscribed to them. I guess I read it on the off chance that there will be the occasional crazy outfit and fittingly crazy/hilarious post accompanying it. But it rarely ever happens now. Sigh. Times have changed indeed.
Anyway, so yeah. The internet is getting annoying. Ads are getting more aggressive on facebook too, which used to be less crowded with ad space than myspace, but now that it's more popular I guess it's natural that the ads would move over there. FUCKING advertisements. I hate them so much. Ugh. I could rant for days about this. I think it makes society sick, honestly. That might sounds extreme, but I'm serious. I guess the upside is that I'll spend less time on the computer because I'm annoyed with it otherwise.
In other news, I'm going to start a Day Zero Project (search it. I'm not linking you.), much like
cage_this did. Hehe. I still have to add about 40 things to it in order to get to 101 projects, but I've got some good stuff so far. I think I'm going to launch it on Samhain, being a new year of sorts. Oh yes, speaking of which, I've been getting back into pagan ways. Not full on, but slowly and in small ways. It makes me happy, and jives well with my going-back-to-nature/DIY/yoga/meditative self. So I'm looking forward to the Day Zero thing. :)
In other other news, I've been studying Tarot quite a bit lately, and getting much better! I read for my mom last night, and I didn't do too badly. She said it was accurate. Of course, it's not a matter of the cards being accurate so much as my interpretation of them. But it's fun and exciting to be studying them and getting better at it. I always wanted to kick ass at reading Tarot. I want to re-learn the gypsy cards too, since my aunt taught me and they're much simpler than the Tarot. ^-^
Anyhoo. That's all for now. Hope everyone on my f-list is doing well. :)