Precision Response Team, mobilize and let the commencement beginulate!
so i work at PRC now. i guess it's my karma for blantantly stating i would never work here. i'm in sales at hotels.com but i looks mad easy, without sounding like i'm on a high horse. my worst case scenario is that i won't make enough sales and they'll eventually purge me from employment, then maybe i'll be willing to take the long ass six week course to be a customer service rep instead of sales. i find it funny as hell to run into characters like robert baydes, his training class starts as mine is finishing.
though my friends that are young urban professionals (yuppies) such as myself shake their heads at my career decision, there is logic (as always) in my decisions. i'm 22 afterall, i need to graduate or atleast grow a bit closer to being a college senior. i'm oh so close! thus, i chose the only job i knew of that would allow me to go to school in the daytime while still pulling in a considerable paycheck (considerable considering i live with my parents). i'm a salesman so i receive some sort of incentives for making sales. but they supposedly change every month. whatevs. i heard some guy do it over the phone and it was mad easy.
this is what my schedule looks like for the fall:
American Foreign Policy
11:00AM 12:00PM TuTh
Political Ideology
12:30 1:45PM TuTh
Politics Of W Europe
2:00-3:15PM TuTh
i'm trying to get a running start on this college thing, after slacking for almost two years. i think summer was a good start, hopefully i'll take more next semester, at least four classes. but i'm a tuesday thursday guy so if any FIUers out there would care to join me for some rousinig spirited debate-filled political classes, get in touch with your idealistic nerdy side. college is probably your only chance to do that, then you'll be in a career where you largely ignore a broad majority of academic subjects. and you'll probably get less idealistic too, focusing more on your family and taking care of'em and such. i'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing, i'm a product of such a family. though, when i think about outgrowing idealistic political views, i get a bit sad.
i feel as though the previous generation went through that (and large chunks of ours is undoubtably going through that as well). and i recognize that there has always been a large amount (maybe even a latent majority) of people who will always be cynical. i'm not immune to those emotions, but cynicism does not corrosively errode my ideals. i wonder if that will change as i grow older? i can't help but constantly think about the future. i can't help but feel the weight of responsibility on me to perform, to advance to the perceived next stage of my life. but the realities are overwhelming and i realize i still have years ahead of me before i can do that. but the next stage is perceiveably too close to the end of a shaky young adulthood that i'm still enjoying. i see too many people in my training class who are my age and younger with children training to get this job that i think i can't completely support myself on (i'll probably have to save up a lot of money and stay at prc a while before i can move out).
so i'm still trying to find a balance between school, work and a social life. when you take living on your own out of the equation the balance becomes pretty easy to attain. things are looking up everywhere, will i finally attain a new balance???
though my friends that are young urban professionals (yuppies) such as myself shake their heads at my career decision, there is logic (as always) in my decisions. i'm 22 afterall, i need to graduate or atleast grow a bit closer to being a college senior. i'm oh so close! thus, i chose the only job i knew of that would allow me to go to school in the daytime while still pulling in a considerable paycheck (considerable considering i live with my parents). i'm a salesman so i receive some sort of incentives for making sales. but they supposedly change every month. whatevs. i heard some guy do it over the phone and it was mad easy.
this is what my schedule looks like for the fall:
American Foreign Policy
11:00AM 12:00PM TuTh
Political Ideology
12:30 1:45PM TuTh
Politics Of W Europe
2:00-3:15PM TuTh
i'm trying to get a running start on this college thing, after slacking for almost two years. i think summer was a good start, hopefully i'll take more next semester, at least four classes. but i'm a tuesday thursday guy so if any FIUers out there would care to join me for some rousinig spirited debate-filled political classes, get in touch with your idealistic nerdy side. college is probably your only chance to do that, then you'll be in a career where you largely ignore a broad majority of academic subjects. and you'll probably get less idealistic too, focusing more on your family and taking care of'em and such. i'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing, i'm a product of such a family. though, when i think about outgrowing idealistic political views, i get a bit sad.
i feel as though the previous generation went through that (and large chunks of ours is undoubtably going through that as well). and i recognize that there has always been a large amount (maybe even a latent majority) of people who will always be cynical. i'm not immune to those emotions, but cynicism does not corrosively errode my ideals. i wonder if that will change as i grow older? i can't help but constantly think about the future. i can't help but feel the weight of responsibility on me to perform, to advance to the perceived next stage of my life. but the realities are overwhelming and i realize i still have years ahead of me before i can do that. but the next stage is perceiveably too close to the end of a shaky young adulthood that i'm still enjoying. i see too many people in my training class who are my age and younger with children training to get this job that i think i can't completely support myself on (i'll probably have to save up a lot of money and stay at prc a while before i can move out).
so i'm still trying to find a balance between school, work and a social life. when you take living on your own out of the equation the balance becomes pretty easy to attain. things are looking up everywhere, will i finally attain a new balance???