Current Complaints

[megisnotreal]

thanks for the kind words, y'all.

i guess the "real" world doesn't get any better. i guess that, instead of bemoaning the fact that i'm not really freaking rich, i'm just gonna have to get out there and... uh... do stuff. and things. and whatnot.

i'm 97.6% sure i am going to be really successful. maybe this is just the beginning for me?

i do need a vacation, though. bad.

[The DARK]

thanks for the kind words, y'all.

i guess the "real" world doesn't get any better. i guess that, instead of bemoaning the fact that i'm not really freaking rich, i'm just gonna have to get out there and... uh... do stuff. and things. and whatnot.

i'm 97.6% sure i am going to be really successful. maybe this is just the beginning for me?

i do need a vacation, though. bad.

OBH Camp what, 2 months away? I couldn't hold out that long.

[mjkoehler]

thanks for the kind words, y'all.

i guess the "real" world doesn't get any better. i guess that, instead of bemoaning the fact that i'm not really freaking rich, i'm just gonna have to get out there and... uh... do stuff. and things. and whatnot.

i'm 97.6% sure i am going to be really successful. maybe this is just the beginning for me?

i do need a vacation, though. bad.

AMEN sister. I'm to the point that I get 5+ weeks vacation. And do you think I use it? Nope. Who the hell needs 5 weeks vacation? Money isn't everything but you can somewhat buy your own misery. I hate not taking time off but I'm the type that I HAVE to have something to do. I'm not the sit on the beach sipping frosty beverages type. Shit my last vaca was my kitchen remodel. I guess long story short (too late) is it is what you make it.

[mjkoehler]

Current Complaint:

I hate Imus, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Anna Nicole, Howard K Stern and most of the really crappy current pop culture here in American. If I was an outside looking into the US I'd say to myself, what the fuck.

End of rant

[MarkW]

does it ever, you know, get better?

No.  Sorry.  Working is losing.  Particularly if you're doing it for a company that doesn't add anything to the greater good of humankind.

A lot of the guys on here do worthwhile, valuable jobs that make a difference to people's  lives, but they're the minority of today's general working population.

As the Godfathers put it:  Birth, School, Work, Death.

I deal with it by doing the best I can when at work, spending time with the people I love, and travelling to new places.  Oh, and listening to music, particularly the Jacket.  8-)

[ManNamedTruth]

Lets just all start a commune. One Big Holiday Commune.

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

does it ever, you know, get better?

i have been doing the full-time work ("real world") thing now for the past five months, and i am not happy. i love my job, but i loathe the routine. i hate feeling so tied down by something. all i do is work. 8am to 5pm. every. single. day. i basically live for the weekend, because it's the only time i can live life on my terms.

i don't know if i am just an immature asshole or if it is like this for everyone else, but i feel so stifled. my life is predictable, administered--each day identical to the last.

does it get any better? do you learn to love the routine, or is it something to which you must resign yourself?

i mean, i know the rest of my life is going to be my career, and i am happy with that... but i don't know if i can handle the same thing every day for the rest of forever.

8am to 5pm. Repeat.
8am to 5pm. Repeat.
8am to 5pm. Repeat.

maybe i just need to take a road trip or something? :-? :-? :-?

Now multiply your five months into say...20 years or so, and you'll feel like you've got a three story building around your neck.  But you do it-so you and your fam (if you choose to have one) can have a good life.  I too get around four or five weeks of vacation a year but find I use the time in little spurts-baby sick or something like that, never like a two week jaunt off to the coast like I did back in the day...

[BH]

Funny thing about the weekends when you're unemployed.  They don't mean quite so much.  'Cept you get to hang out with your workin' friends.

[megisnotreal]

so... stay in college for the rest of my life and/or marry someone with a trust fund?

plan formed.  ;)

[ycartrob]

Funny thing about the weekends when you're unemployed.  They don't mean quite so much.  'Cept you get to hang out with your workin' friends.

[EC]

all right, now.
meg, no, your life will not always be like this.  
your life is going to change a LOT over the course of the next 60+ years.
you know (or approximately know) how old i am, and currently i have the first 9-5 job i've ever had. ever.
now, i don't have kids, so that makes things different.  i have a cat, and she's pretty independent.
i thought i knew what i wanted to do when i was 14.  when i was 28 i realized that it wasn't what i wanted to do.  i actually probably realized that when i was a lot younger but couldn't admit it because it's hard to change your mind when you've thought a certain way a long time.
but i did.  and then i thought i found the thing i wanted to do.  but that was only because i was good at it.  it involved a lot of spreadsheets.
and i hated it.  so i left it.  and then one day i realized that the thing i REALLY wanted to do was there the whole time but i hadn't seen it before.  so i changed course again.  
in my lifetime i've changed courses a lot.  the first was the hardest.  and now, because i know that no matter what happens, i'll be all right (ie i have a way of making things work out), i feel less pressure.  
we have to do the things we want to do (again, disclaimer,  having children or spouses, i assume, is a little different) or else what are we doing?
all i'm saying is that there's periods where things are hard, there's periods where things are weird, there's periods where things are awesome, there's periods where things are REALLY BORING.  the one thing (i've found so far) is that change never stops.  
and.  no matter what anybody tells you, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do.  (if you're single and without babies.)  i have yet to find a good enough reason to make a person stay in an environment that they don't want to.  
so basically, don't worry.  do this until you can't stand it and then do something else. :)  

[megisnotreal]

meg, you are the bestestest. thank you for the words of wisdom.
*interweb hugz*
:)

[The DARK]

Mowing.

[ManNamedTruth]

my digital camera is fucked up.

[dragonboy]

Finding out that The Sword are supporting Lamb Of God in my city on a Saturday, which means I could have gone but it turns out that my wife & I are going away that weekend & have already paid for the hotel & train tickets etc.
Shit I'd LOVE to see The Sword  :-/
(I just went to the Lamb Of God myspace page...they're pretty full on, aren't they?!! Bit too noisy for me...)

[sweatboard]

all right, now.
meg, no, your life will not always be like this.  
your life is going to change a LOT over the course of the next 60+ years.
you know (or approximately know) how old i am, and currently i have the first 9-5 job i've ever had. ever.
now, i don't have kids, so that makes things different.  i have a cat, and she's pretty independent.
i thought i knew what i wanted to do when i was 14.  when i was 28 i realized that it wasn't what i wanted to do.  i actually probably realized that when i was a lot younger but couldn't admit it because it's hard to change your mind when you've thought a certain way a long time.
but i did.  and then i thought i found the thing i wanted to do.  but that was only because i was good at it.  it involved a lot of spreadsheets.
and i hated it.  so i left it.  and then one day i realized that the thing i REALLY wanted to do was there the whole time but i hadn't seen it before.  so i changed course again.  
in my lifetime i've changed courses a lot.  the first was the hardest.  and now, because i know that no matter what happens, i'll be all right (ie i have a way of making things work out), i feel less pressure.  
we have to do the things we want to do (again, disclaimer,  having children or spouses, i assume, is a little different) or else what are we doing?
all i'm saying is that there's periods where things are hard, there's periods where things are weird, there's periods where things are awesome, there's periods where things are REALLY BORING.  the one thing (i've found so far) is that change never stops.  
and.  no matter what anybody tells you, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do.  (if you're single and without babies.)  i have yet to find a good enough reason to make a person stay in an environment that they don't want to.  
so basically, don't worry.  do this until you can't stand it and then do something else. :)  

there are at least four great songs in here.  :-*

[MMJ_fanatic]

The scumbucket who thinks he has a right to somebody else's hard earned cash--some friggin' a-hole managed to snag my debit Visa card number and now there are 2 pending transactions on my checking account for more than $550!  Get your own job prick!  To top it off my bank tells me even though I know the charges are fraudulent they still have to pay them when the thief submits the request for payment.  Wouldn't you think in this digital day and age they could deny the payout based on my direction?!  Anyhow now I wait until the money leaves my account and then file the "official" claim.  Hoo boy this sucks

[bethofftherecord]

i hate rain.  i hate when i rains on thursday and kickball is canceled.  ARGH! :(

[SMc55]

The scumbucket who thinks he has a right to somebody else's hard earned cash--some friggin' a-hole managed to snag my debit Visa card number and now there are 2 pending transactions on my checking account for more than $550!  Get your own job prick!  To top it off my bank tells me even though I know the charges are fraudulent they still have to pay them when the thief submits the request for payment.  Wouldn't you think in this digital day and age they could deny the payout based on my direction?!  Anyhow now I wait until the money leaves my account and then file the "official" claim.  Hoo boy this sucks

Some people just suck!
Sorry to hear that fanatic.

[MMJ_fanatic]

Thanks Doc, I'm hoping this will just go away with minimal impact...