Comments | purveyorofchaos: New Game

purveyorofchaos

New Game

May 19, 2010 02:57

I have a new game at work. It's called "pretend I'm in NYC circa 1980something". See, pretending I'm in New York during it's dark days of drugs, crime, and disrepair makes me think of myself and my co-workers as trashy queens of the sex industry, working a peepshow in spite of it being the lowest rung of the sex industry ladder and owning it. ( Read more... )

professional perversion, rambling

Comments 11

bork May 19 2010, 19:30:28 UTC

Yes. Free is always good!

That's one of the reasons I dropped my programming classes, aside from stress. I'm getting laid off soon, so why shell out money when I may be able to learn roughly the same material for free?

I'm looking at programs at Bellevue College myself.

purveyorofchaos May 20 2010, 08:07:29 UTC

Bellevue actually has some really cool shit. Like, seriously cool. If it wasn't way farther than I wanted to commute for something as simple as nursing prerequisites I might think about some of their arts classes.

bork May 20 2010, 15:11:49 UTC

Where are you now, and what campus would you have to go for nursing classes? Because while it looks far, the buses are extremely streamlined to facilitate that.

I gladly do the commute for computer classes, because they're one of the best in the area.

Oh yeah - link to their Workforce Retraining program: http://bellevuecollege.edu/wrp/

nobodylkl May 19 2010, 23:09:39 UTC

School actually sounds like a great idea. :)

purveyorofchaos May 20 2010, 08:05:58 UTC

I think so too. I only hope I'm right about getting free shit, and about being able to handle it.

gillen May 20 2010, 04:14:00 UTC

The 1980s was the last decade that New York was cool. Times Square was creepy and menacing at 3:00am, not some neon Disney oedestrian mall filled with Japanese teenagers. All the Korean delis had good dumplings. Drivers took stoplights as mere suggestions. You could yell at some asshole on the street and flip him off without anyone making a federal case out of it. The little old Russian tailors at the Brooks Brothers store would fix you a drink for free while they took your measurements with string and chalk. You couldn't enter the Canal Street station without being suffocated by the overpowering stench of urine. You could get the best pastries from a little old Argentianian lady who ran a bakery on 3rd around the mid 60s that was so small you could barely turn around in it - and it was open from 11:00am to like 3:00pm. H&H Bagels were still good. When the Village Voice printed the best eats in the city, it wasn't filled with froo-froo thai fusion cuisine (seriously, the Voice's winner for Best Hamburger last year was some ( ... )

purveyorofchaos May 20 2010, 08:05:17 UTC

New York is a tool of the rich like no other city, and the 80's was the last time it had honesty in many ways.

Also, your icon is epicly amazing.

quietgrrl May 20 2010, 16:48:38 UTC

Not to discourage you but you likely will have to continue to look for work (and eventually accept a job) while you're on unemployment regardless of school. A whole mess of people in my program, including myself, are unemployed and going to school and only some of us can get unemployment (for no reason). I've been unemployed and filing for UI since March and I haven't seen a dime yet because they don't believe I'm available for full time work because I'm a student (even though I'm taking night classes). Anyway, file for unemployment first, get your first couple of checks. Then tell them before you register for school and be really specific about how it won't effect your ability to get a job and expect to give them hell about it and you might end up having to speak with a judge (that's what I had to do). You should be able to get community college paid for through Washington State need grants, make sure you fill out the FAFSA soon.

purveyorofchaos May 20 2010, 19:25:35 UTC

I did fill out the FAFSA, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to get much either in unemployment or anything else, but why not try? And I'm not trying to go to school until the fall, so I have a little bit of wiggle room. Not much, but some.

Here's to hoping.

bork May 21 2010, 00:25:29 UTC

This all depends.

If you're just going to school on your own and then trying to file UI, then yeah - they're going to ding you. Because you're not available for work.

However, if you go through a WA State approved Worker Retraining program, you can go to school *and* get UI. The hitch is that you have to jump through their hoops and study a field that is in high demand (so art and Philosophy won't count). But Nursing and related Medical fields certainly are.

bork May 21 2010, 00:26:16 UTC

Better yet, she can go through Worker Retraining - it's a way to go to school and collect the UI at the same time. I made a post about it below.