Rant Thread

[Underwater Ophelia]

Originally Posted by raggedyanne

I gave my name, number, and info to the lady at the college and career center months ago and she has yet to contact me with ANY information pertaining to colleges or internships. Wow.

Contact her.
It's very possible she just lost your info.

[gothicusmaximus]

Originally Posted by raggedyanne

homemade naan

Fuck, I love naan.

[chelseagirl]

I'm married, but I seem to have developed a "crush" of sorts on this guy that I always see on the subway. I feel like a horrible b*tch. I wish it was possible to just turn unwanted feelings off.

[emeraldlonewoulf]

Originally Posted by Johnny Gnar Gnar

Do you ever just have one of those grand moments when you realize... wow... I have absolutely no plans for my life, and I am spiraling further down the rabbit hole of self doubt every day? Well, I've been there for quite awhile, and am getting very, very sick of it. Grrrr. I guess that is the wonder of graduating college, you have a piece of paper, yet no marketable skills, at least not in a job you would like to do. Grrrr and shaking fists and whatnot.

I have a sneaky suspicion that in your case it has been because you have been LIVING life, rather than planning to someday. Those with "life plans" and "five year plans" that actually seem to follow them aren't really living.

"Marketable skills" are for the birds. Apply for a job in which you have no experience, but you think your skills, talents and interests would fit. That's how I ended up getting some of my most interesting jobs. (And a few that sucked, to be honest, but I still learned something and what to avoid in the future)

I didn't know how to run a CNC machine when I applied at Ruger. I didn't know how to work on cars for my first mechanics' job. I didn't have any kind of degree or previous lab experience for the industrial lab tech position I got. I didn't know how to run a restaurant when I started managing one. Yet, I succeeded in each of these things. None of them are things that I would want to do forever, but they got the bills paid. Now I'm a delivery driver, but it allows me time to write and put stuff together for building a sustainable lifestyle, and developing travel opportunities. I'm not there yet, but I'm a hell of a lot closer than I was two years ago.


Don't confuse a job with your lifes' dreams. A job is time you trade in order to accomplish those dreams. A few lucky souls have hit upon ways to combine the two. Usually they do this by thinking "you know what, I know I have to do some sort of "x" to get the bills paid, but, damn it, I WANT to do "y"! I think I'll go ahead and start on "y", I'll still do "x" for now, but I'll build "y" up until I don't have to do "x" anymore."

We don' t hear about these folks until the local paper runs an article on the chick who runs the pottery shop, or the TV special on the guy who builds hot rods for a living, or the couple who own the colorado river raft guide business. We don't see the time before hand, when the pottery chick was waiting tables or answering phones, or when the hot rod guy was selling insurance, or the river raft guides were a financial planner and a computer programmer.

Try for a job you think you can sustain for a while that will challenge you just enough, and then start working on what you WANT rather that what your degree says you should do. It might be that the first step in doing what you want is deciding what that is.

For me, there are several things, some of which I can integrate together, and some of which have to be done sequentially. I try to follow through on the opportunities that are there, and keep my eyes open for other things I'm interested in at the same time. For instance, I can't afford (in time or money) to go to engineering school right now, but I can teach myself AutoCAD, and study the physics lectures from the library, and work on my invention ideas. I can't continue my blacksmithing right now, I need to get a forge built, but I can work on my stone sculpture, while keeping an eye out for the components necessary to build the forge. I can't afford to buy eighty acres out in the wilderness and build my off-grid, self sufficient home yet, but I can save for a motorhome to live in, so we can start saving money for land instead of paying exorbitant rent, and so we will have something to live in while we are building.


Anyway, I know you'll get it figured out, and go ahead and apply for the things you want to do, don't feel limited by a piece of paper. Obtaining it was a learning experience, not a limiting, life-defining thing. It just shows you are smart enough and determined enough to get through school. You CAN follow your dreams, even if you have to find a slightly more unconventional way to do it.


/end overly long, rambling rant*

[HumanePain]

Well said, Emerald Lone Woulf, well said.

But yeah, until you find a way to realize your goals in the background (and even decide what will be your goals), aimlessness and seemingly meaningless direction sucks.

I wish I had some naan. :stomach growling:

[Duane]

... writers' block...

[Solumina]

I have never had naan, I don't even have a clue what it is

[Methadrine]

I'm feeling smartassy today, so with no further ado, and much tomato-flinging later: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naan

[Underwater Ophelia]

Wait, is that not what they were talking about?

[Underwater Ophelia]

Also, who else thinks it would be hilarious to die to the song "We Built This City on Rock and Roll?"

[Solumina]

Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia

Wait, is that not what they were talking about?

I don't know, now I'm all confused

Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia

Also, who else thinks it would be hilarious to die to the song "We Built This City on Rock and Roll?"

That would depend on the cause of death, but it does have great potential for amusement

[HumanePain]

Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia

Also, who else thinks it would be hilarious to die to the song "We Built This City on Rock and Roll?"

I actually like that song. But the Slickster was better outside the mainstream in her acid days. She still keeps a wild streak, along side her shotgun.

[Underwater Ophelia]

Really? I honestly didn't think ANYONE liked that song!
I'm glad to hear it.

[HumanePain]

RANT: I fucking pay $16 for express mail overnight delivery last Tuesday and the fucking letter never got there!!! That incompetence by the U.S. Postal service will now cost me 3fuckingthousand dollars, those incompetent, lazy FUCKING IDIOTS! ARRRRGGGGGHHHH!!! IT HASN"T EVEN LEFT THE WORTHLESS POST OFFICE!!!
/RANT

[raggedyanne]

tax season makes my dad to grumpy to be around

[Cen0bite]

OMGWTF!
ok so i shouldn't be suprised that they said this, because it's the mainstream news and well, what do you expect?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24161656/
quote from the article:
"Skye Doran from Gresham, Ore., was a self-declared nerd in elementary school. In eighth grade, Skye went Goth, a subculture associated with anger, black accoutrements and Marilyn Manson."

oh, and then..

" Then, her sophomore year, she turned “Emo,” a newer subculture tied to softcore punk bands like AFI and Hawthorne Heights, skin-tight jeans and long side-swept bangs draped over much of the face"

and that's not all!

"Today, Skye is 19 and describes herself as a Christian and a "skater chick who doesn't skate." "

huh? a skater that doesn't skate?


GAH! Sometimes i hate reading the news. grr.

[HumanePain]

Originally Posted by Cen0bite

OMGWTF!
ok so i shouldn't be suprised that they said this, because it's the mainstream news and well, what do you expect?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24161656/
quote from the article:
"Skye Doran from Gresham, Ore., was a self-declared nerd in elementary school. In eighth grade, Skye went Goth, a subculture associated with anger, black accoutrements and Marilyn Manson."

oh, and then..

" Then, her sophomore year, she turned “Emo,” a newer subculture tied to softcore punk bands like AFI and Hawthorne Heights, skin-tight jeans and long side-swept bangs draped over much of the face"

and that's not all!

"Today, Skye is 19 and describes herself as a Christian and a "skater chick who doesn't skate." "

huh? a skater that doesn't skate?


GAH! Sometimes i hate reading the news. grr.

Shows how out of touch Microsoft is and how in love they are with wiki style research. Hmph, ignorant misinformed reporters perpetuate the misunderstanding.

[Stormtrooper of Death]

Great just bloody fucking great. So I'm talking to my guitarist today. He's been given and opportunity to try out for this other local band. Great, he should go for it right? Basicly, the rest of the conversation amounted to, fuck you kyle, I'm leaving, this shitheap band isn't going anywhere, fuck off. So now I need a guitarist, I could switch over, but I only know two chords and am a far better bassist. Plus on top of that I've been searching for a female singer, I like the sound a girl would bring, but no luck, everytime I try, they don't like what we play, so it's down to me singing and playing bass and a drummer that doesn't show up half the time. Great. Fucking great, always grinding me down ain't ya?? Step on the little guy all the time. Sure Matt deserves to head up our group, even though he doesn't know shit about the topic, no Kyle, you just research the small facts, we don't care. Sure Kyle, we support you in life, except your life choices. This trip will never happen Kyle, you can't pull it off. No Kyle you have to work double shifts all the time, be a good worker now, work hard. Sure Kyle, I'm still you're friend, but I'm busy for this whole month because of more pressing outings with my real friends, so you can't come. Sure Kyle, you're a great guy, so that's why I talk about you behind your back. Sure Kyle, you're a very smart guy, but we know you're really not. Sure Kyle, you're going to go far in life, but we know yoiu won't. Go for your dreams Kyle, even though we'll step on them and crush them, follow our orders, we can't have you going off on your own now.


I think that's about it. I've been holding it in for about 2 months, I needed to do that.

[(heartofflames)]

Originally Posted by Stormtrooper of Death

Great just bloody fucking great. So I'm talking to my guitarist today. He's been given and opportunity to try out for this other local band. Great, he should go for it right? Basicly, the rest of the conversation amounted to, fuck you kyle, I'm leaving, this shitheap band isn't going anywhere, fuck off. So now I need a guitarist, I could switch over, but I only know two chords and am a far better bassist. Plus on top of that I've been searching for a female singer, I like the sound a girl would bring, but no luck, everytime I try, they don't like what we play, so it's down to me singing and playing bass and a drummer that doesn't show up half the time. Great. Fucking great, always grinding me down ain't ya?? Step on the little guy all the time. Sure Matt deserves to head up our group, even though he doesn't know shit about the topic, no Kyle, you just research the small facts, we don't care. Sure Kyle, we support you in life, except your life choices. This trip will never happen Kyle, you can't pull it off. No Kyle you have to work double shifts all the time, be a good worker now, work hard. Sure Kyle, I'm still you're friend, but I'm busy for this whole month because of more pressing outings with my real friends, so you can't come. Sure Kyle, you're a great guy, so that's why I talk about you behind your back. Sure Kyle, you're a very smart guy, but we know you're really not. Sure Kyle, you're going to go far in life, but we know yoiu won't. Go for your dreams Kyle, even though we'll step on them and crush them, follow our orders, we can't have you going off on your own now.


I think that's about it. I've been holding it in for about 2 months, I needed to do that.

.................


I'm really sorry about whatever happened, but try to look on the bright side of things. I would encourage you to say this to whoever treated you badly, but it would be unethical.
This could be quite a good song or poem....

[Stormtrooper of Death]

Thanks heartofflmames, it would make a good song. I'm just going to pop on some Jello Biafra spoken word and relax, that will cool me down.

[Stormtrooper of Death]

Sorry about that rant last night, I just needed to vent.

[HumanePain]

:comes back home 15 minutes after he left, unlaces 20 paired hole spiked invasion boots and takes off black "Casket Salesmen" band shirt and slumps in front of computer:

Crap. The Billy Bones show at The Showcase Theatre was freakin' sold out!
Crap crap crap. And I just found my digital camera again after stowing it somewhere and forgetting in a fit of senility where it was for two months.
:kicks stuffed penguin across the floor:

Well at least when I look back on this year I can say with a smile that I saw Siouxsie Sioux and the SubHumans.
(sigh)

[Tea and Cake or Death]

I hate how I've still not learned how to keep my big mouth shut...
Big Mouth Strikes Again!

[raggedyanne]

Stupid men who hit on engaged pregnant women need to reevaluate exactly what they're looking for in a relationship.

[Tea and Cake or Death]

Originally Posted by raggedyanne

Stupid men who hit on engaged pregnant women need to reevaluate exactly what they're looking for in a relationship.

WOW..........