Still jobless...
- Spent - Corvette Summer
- St Vincent - Just The Same But Brand New
- Andrew Bird - Wishing For Contentment
- Yo La Tengo - Speeding Motorcycle
- Blackalicious - Nowhere Fast
- Diana Krall - Departure Bay
- David Cook -Heroes
- The Anomoanon - Complaint
- Tom Waits - The Ocean Doesn't Want Me
- Neko Case - Pretty Girls
... after all these weeks.
still jobless … after all these years …. since august 2005. oh but wait !! the OFFICAL Great Recession did not begin / start until 2007 or 2008 so you are not eligible for any extensions / further assistance / retraining assistance / education assistance so sorry you are on your own and oh thank you for serving in the us armed forces but we all know that you veterans are just PTSD ticking time bombs waiting to go off so we cannot do anything for you until you do and you are an able bodied white caucasian single american male without any dependents so you do not qualify for food or medical or housing assistance and you have too much education with a bachelors and a masters so you are overqualified or oh wait we need 700 years of experience before we can even begin to even think about maybe hiring you so you are underqualified blahblahblah de blahblahf***ingblah
is this a great f***ing country or whut ??? wot ???
and the topper is …………… i have a bad attitude. go on !! who knew !! no way !!
Look out Mama
there’s a white boat comin’ up the river….
and a couple of other things.
no medical / health insurance since that time.
have never had any dental insurance of any kind since i fell off the parents’ dental insurance when i went to college. so did not lose that benefit.
since that layoff time of august 2005 have lost about 70 pounds and five teeth – no money for food and without food, lack of proper nutrition led to malnutrition and possibly scurvy ( what century are we in again ??? ).
so hey look on the bright side !! getting laid off and having no money is a GREAT way to DIET !! and less teeth means having to buy less toothpaste and toothbrushes.
surely this is the greatest gd country on the entire gd f***ing planet !!!
am i right or am i right ?!?!?!
can i get a HALLELUJAH here people ?????
i cannot hear you !!!!
but a couple of positives from this period – have not paid one gd red cent toward the Occupation and Subjugation of Iraq and the Oil Stealing.
have not paid one penny toward Afghanistan.
have not paid anything toward the amerikan War Machine.
i am quite proud of those last three items.
but man, it sure is hard to get a date. damn hard.
and i don’t think that they are here to deliver the mail ….
6′ 1″ and down to 115 pounds. i look like one of those peeps that stumbled out of a concentration camp. the last full meal that i ate was thanksgiving day. a human can go for some time without sustenance. need water though.
the trick to all of this is to have NO debt. otherwise you become an amerikan slave, all over again. my parents grew up in the Great Depression and they preached No credit and to this day i have never had a credit card nor taken out a loan.
but on the other hand, doing all of the shit that peeps are always extolling ( study hard get good grades work hard keep your nose to the grindstone life is fair things will work out etc etc etc ) all total bullshit – just one big steaming pile of horseshit.
….
Motion Pictures ( For Carrie )
Motion pictures on my TV screen,
A home away from home, livin’ in between
But I hear some people have got their dream.
I’ve got mine.
I hear the mountains are doin’ fine,
Mornin’ glory is on the vine,
And the dew is fallin’, the ducks are callin’.
Yes, I’ve got mine.
Well, all those people, they think they got it made
But I wouldn’t buy, sell, borrow or trade
Anything I have to be like one of them.
I’d rather start all over again.
Well, all those headlines, they just bore me now
I’m deep inside myself, but I’ll get out somehow,
And I’ll stand before you,
and I’ll bring a smile to your eyes.
Motion pictures, motion pictures.
All the sailors with their seasick mamas
Hear the sirens on the shore,
Singin’ songs for pimps with tailors
Who charge ten dollars at the door.
You can really learn a lot that way
It will change you in the middle of the day.
Though your confidence may be shattered,
It doesn’t matter.
All the great explorers
Are now in granite laid,
Under white sheets for the great unveiling
At the big parade.
You can really learn a lot that way
It will change you in the middle of the day.
Though your confidence may be shattered,
It doesn’t matter.
All the bushleague batters
Are left to die on the diamond.
In the stands the home crowd scatters
For the turnstiles.
story from basic training
we had been at fort benning georgia for about a week and some of the recruits were feeling homesick / missing girlfriends/wives/children etc and the company first sergeant had the company form up and then addressed us.
he was from one of the pacific islands under usa occupation, oops, i mean usa protection, like guam or samoa, so he spoke with a bit of an accent, which did not hinder us from understanding him, just made him sound exotic/funny to a midwesterner’s eardrums.
“Gentlemen, i understand that some of you are feeling homesick, missing your girlfriends or your wives or your children, but i just wanted to let you that if you are expecting any sympathy, the only place ( at this point he held up a paperback dictionary ) that you will find sympathy is right here in this book ( waves it back and forth for us all to see ) – right between shit and syphilis!!!”
well, that was one of the phunniest things that i had ever heard and i broke up. of course, i had about 100 drill sergeants immediately screaming at me and breathing down my neck, but the laff was worth it.
on the last day of basic, i found the first sergeant and let him know that was a great speech and he laffed and said he gave it every training cycle. he wished me good luck and then i was off to AIT ( advanced individual training ).
finally had to sell off the honda cr-v after being unemployed for over 4-1/2 years.
could no longer afford gasoline / oil change / minor maintenance / major maintenance / tire replacement / insurance / drivers license renewal fee / registration tab renewal fee / etc etc etc.
it is amazing to watch / live through each layer being peeled away.
when you become unemployed you lose so much. the thing i regret losing the most is independence.
but i found a good home for the cr-v – a single mom and her daughter ( former neighbors ) needed a vehicle after their honda civic rolled its final mile.
so that is a good thing.
merry christmas to all.
hey man,
dunno what to say…
‘hang in there’ seems lame. but… whew..
i can relate to the hard to get a date when unemployed thing.
at the library using the wifi ( cannot afford at home ) this lady asked me to help her connect as she was having problems. got it connected and she struck up a conversation about it being hard to find guys to go out with etc etc and she asked me what i was doing and i said that i was not what she had in mind.
Her: oh i’m sorry are you married or seeing someone?
me: no that’s not it.
her: well, if you’re not taken why not? omg you’re not gay, are you?
me: (sigh) no, i’m not gay.
her: (getting frustrated) omg do you have aids or something?
me: (sigh) no, i do not have aids or any stds
her: well, i don’t understand. am i not attractive? is that the problem?
me: (sigh) no, that’s not the issue.
her: help me out here … oh wait – do you have a job?
me: you win the proze. now, if you will excuse me, i must return to my job search.
her: i have to day that i meet a lot of unemployed guys. i mean, a lot.
me: did you know that the age demographic 25-54 year old males, regardless of race, has the highest unemployment rate in the usa at 20%+ ? and that is not counting the prison population.
her: good luck.
me: do you know anybody that is hiring?
and that has occured three times in the last couple of months. interesting.
one thing that one learns to the absoulte nth degree is who the people are that stick by/with you in times of trouble and those who do/can/will not.
as the guy once said “she ran out when the money did”.