Bookshop

[lullabee_lj]

So, am currently working at the bookshop... volunteering at the bookshop... which doesn't pay anyone except the managers, because no one ever buys stuff, and it's also run by anarchists... and communists... both of which, I think, don't believe in paying people with the money produced by our current capitalist hegemony. They must be very pleased

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[lullabee_lj]

Honestly, it's not that bad. It's mostly just like sitting at home, since hardly anyone comes in, except it is sometimes more fun and sometimes more annoying. And I have an easier time talking about being annoyed than having fun, so I tend to magnify the stuff that bugs me. I do get to meet weird, friendly people, it gets my parents and I mutually out of each other's hair, and I get job experience to put on my resume. And being a little annoyed is more enjoyable than being totally bored.

Plus, having something to do is good for your health, and so is walking two miles a day and trying to carry a seventy-pound wooden signboard.

The only really annoying thing is that since anarchists are yet to implement their system, it remains illegal for one adult (like me) to dopeslap another (like an anarchist). Apparently, their social welfare plan is that government and bosses are what cause most physical and mental disabilities, and I guess people can be trusted to take care of each other out of the kindness of their hearts. I mean, it's not like the government is so great at that, but throwing out a tool because the tool is faulty is stupid.

And I'm usually quite polite, but that's no good if I NEVER GET AN INTERVIEW GAH, and also when I'm nervous I tend to freeze up, mispronounce my own name, and get really self-conscious of how I am suddenly mumblesqueaking in an English accent I don't normally have, so even if I am being terribly polite no one notices.