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[kallie_starmist]

I never wanted to be one of those LJ people who do nothing but complain about their lives and their petty problems and end up sounding like high-strung, narcissistic, immature nutjobs who are incapable of focusing on the positive, but it occurs to me that I am, in fact, a high-strung, narcissistic, immature nutjob who is physically incapable of

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[justmissjac]

With the state of the economy, and because Boston in particular is so heavily populated by students (aka more people looking for jobs), you'll be hard-pressed to find something immediately that is heavily involved with biology.

Frankly, I'm rather jealous of this bakery job of yours. I, for one, love small businesses, and through my own desperation for a job I've discovered that I like working with customers (and am very seriously considering any job like the cashier job I have now to be training for when I open my tea shop and grow a beard. I should try panhandling some time, haha!)

And even if it turns out you can't stand this job, at the very least it's money in your pocket and you're learning something. So, take the bakery job. It may be a blessing in disguise.

[justmissjac]

And, after mulling it over for a bit, I feel rather insulted by whoever told you that this job "wasn't worth your time".... It's a slap in the face as someone who's worked as a peddler, a host, and a cashier, and really just strikes me as classist bullshit.

Fuck them. I'm going to go watch The Ghost of Mrs. Muir.

[theartichoke]

and really just strikes me as classist bullshit.

This.

[kallie_starmist]

Oh don't you start, too.

At the end of the day, I am ridiculously overqualified to be handing out melonbread in a shopping mall.

[theartichoke]

That's oldworld thinking. Nowadays a bachelors degree doesn't account for much; no matter how fabulously scientific.

[kallie_starmist]

Doesn't make me less overqualified, just makes me another overqualified chick who can't get a full-time job.

[theartichoke]

Splittin' hairs.

[justmissjac]

:likes:

[kallie_starmist]

That wasn't a direct quote... I think she said she hoped I would find a "more suitable" job. She didn't mean that cashiering is generally a waste of time, just that I'm grossly overqualified for it and it's by no means the end of my job search.

She meant it was a waste as in unrelated to what I want to do with my life. Really. Not classist. Not dissing cashiers.

[kallie_starmist]

See, THIS is the kind of advice that I was getting from everybody, RIGHT UP UNTIL I ACTUALLY GOT A JOB OFFER, and then everyone started acting all disappointed and upset. THAT is what is driving me nuts. CONSISTANCY, PEOPLE. CONSISTANCY.

But thank you. I think I'll like working there... if I didn't, I would have just said "fuck it, I'll apply at the Panera's down the street, they won't care if I quit the next morning," so hopefully it'll be fine.