If I go there will be trouble, if I stay it will be double

[reckless_rex]

Yesterday my dad made my sister and I sit down for one of those Talks. The main purpose was to explicitly moot a topic that had been mumbled about previously: the soon-to-be-wicked-stepmother and her two spawn will, so the rumour goes, be moving in with us sometime shortly after my father gets around to marrying her. This is currently slated to

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[reckless_rex]

Yar... rest assured that no matter what happens I will not be spending much time around them.

There's also the option of moving in with my aunt and uncle, who would certainly have me and are blissfully childless...

[soldier_officer]

I don't have any advice, but I'll give you an idea of my take on your situation.

If it was me, I would, for one reason or another, probably stay. Free room and board is not something easily given up. If I had a room of my own, I wouldn't really have a problem. And as you've said Matt, you can spend quite a bit of your free time away from home, needing only a place to get food and crash at night.

Thats the logic talking. Now the emotion.

I say get out while you still can. If you stay, you might regret it. Maybe eventually you do decide to bail out. Then your dad may be totally pissed; he bought a place with the extra room for you just so you take off ex post facto. I sure wouldn't want that kind of heat on my back. Make a clean break and if you have live on the cheap, so be it. Or if you can go live with your relatives, even better.

Again, my take (probaby inaccurate). I'm not advocating any clear cut action here.

[reckless_rex]

Yeah, that's basically how my mind is veering back and forth too. I think there's little point in agonizing over it now; easier to leave it on the backburner and see what the situation looks and feels like in the new year. In the mean time I'm going to sound out my aunt and see what they'd want in terms of rent...

[reckless_rex]

Except that if I turn around and bail after we get a new place, my dad would (rightly) percieve this as a shafting and I'd rather not do that, "easy" though it would be. (O time inconsistency, thou art difficult to resist...)

[drumnbach]

It's true: you should never do a job that steals your soul. My soul escaped out of my ears when I worked at this amusement park, and I've never gotten all of it back. My mate did telemarketing once, he quit after the first day because people made him cry.

And what Soldier said sounds good.

[reckless_rex]

Yeah, reading the Dan Gilbert book drove home what I long suspected: in the tradeoff between wages and job satisfaction, job satisfaction should always be weighted more heavily.

[syn_messiah]

Telemarketing pays minimum $10... I would only consider a telemarketing job if for some reason my job decided to fire me (or jobs for that matter, I got two now).
Yeah, moving out on your own kinda sucks a lot but there are a lot of benefits, such as being able to do whatever the fuck whenever the fuck you want.
fuck.

[reckless_rex]

I doubt there'll be much fucking going on in any case, though it's good to have that freedom too I suppose.