go in through the window
I read a short story snippet that had a line that went something like, "she stood in the train station, at last, in her hand a one-way ticket to New York city." The character was reinventing herself, starting a new life.
But I can't imagine going somewhere like that and looking for a job. Maybe if your current situation is too bad to tolerate staying, but you'd go knowing that being there wasn't key, at first. You don't walk in to a place to find a job. I guess you still do for service-based jobs, but even then, you aren't going to talk to someone there about working, not that day. Heck no. You're going to get a paper form if you're lucky, and more likely I think you'll be directed to a web site.
The door to get in isn't the same door you use once you belong. It's on the internet. "Type in our store code to find out if this outlet is hiring". A phone still works, and it feels closer, because you're talking to someone who might be someone you'll talk to when you work there, but it doesn't require you to be nearby. Not at all.
There's something about that fact that wiggles in my brain, but I don't know where I'm going with it. I felt like saying hi. Hi, livejournal.
But I can't imagine going somewhere like that and looking for a job. Maybe if your current situation is too bad to tolerate staying, but you'd go knowing that being there wasn't key, at first. You don't walk in to a place to find a job. I guess you still do for service-based jobs, but even then, you aren't going to talk to someone there about working, not that day. Heck no. You're going to get a paper form if you're lucky, and more likely I think you'll be directed to a web site.
The door to get in isn't the same door you use once you belong. It's on the internet. "Type in our store code to find out if this outlet is hiring". A phone still works, and it feels closer, because you're talking to someone who might be someone you'll talk to when you work there, but it doesn't require you to be nearby. Not at all.
There's something about that fact that wiggles in my brain, but I don't know where I'm going with it. I felt like saying hi. Hi, livejournal.