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I got an offer from Peet's Coffee - finally! I dont' have a start date or a pay rate... apparently working out the details of my pay rate will take another 24 hours of intramanagement discussion.
Forget that noncommittal Google shit - they couldn't decide when they would actually need to hire anyone so they recruited the hell out of a bunch of people and then asked them to wait 2-8 weeks till the work was available. Total crap.
Peet's will be marvelous - free coffee all shift, free beans for the new coffee maker my beloved surprised me with (although spending the few pennies we had left after moving into the apartment, it was still the sweetest gesture he's ever made - I wept).
It only takes two buses and 60 minutes to get to and from the workplace directly. Its only a few miles from Foothill College which is one bus ride away from my new home. My plan is to obtain a bicycle (I've heard they grow in the wild here...) and thus arrange a work/school schedule accordingly.
At this time, one questions the validity or perhaps value of my current plan. I'm 26 years old for chrissakes. I skipped this part of my post-highschool adolescence. There's not a bit of shame in recreating it now. Perhaps the essential reason I've felt so hopeless and lost during the past 5 years is that I neglected to develop a plan during the five years previous. Mention not the importance of the previous five years. It is paramount to acknowledge the previous five years as a great suffering of self. Still, if suffering is born out of desire - then clearly the answer is that my desire was not right. My desire to climb a ladder or outshine the rest or hermit myself away from social circles was not the most productive it could be.
Had it been more simple, more open, more fluid... perhaps I wouldn't have felt so paralyzed and suffocated the following five years. Breaking through at this time, I have no fear or shame in starting down a new path. One with limited but powerful knowledge. One with productive and honest, ethical power. Power to obtain peace, joy, faith, friendship. That will make all of the five years to come a little easier to manage.
As the knuckleheads would say, "that's legit."
Forget that noncommittal Google shit - they couldn't decide when they would actually need to hire anyone so they recruited the hell out of a bunch of people and then asked them to wait 2-8 weeks till the work was available. Total crap.
Peet's will be marvelous - free coffee all shift, free beans for the new coffee maker my beloved surprised me with (although spending the few pennies we had left after moving into the apartment, it was still the sweetest gesture he's ever made - I wept).
It only takes two buses and 60 minutes to get to and from the workplace directly. Its only a few miles from Foothill College which is one bus ride away from my new home. My plan is to obtain a bicycle (I've heard they grow in the wild here...) and thus arrange a work/school schedule accordingly.
At this time, one questions the validity or perhaps value of my current plan. I'm 26 years old for chrissakes. I skipped this part of my post-highschool adolescence. There's not a bit of shame in recreating it now. Perhaps the essential reason I've felt so hopeless and lost during the past 5 years is that I neglected to develop a plan during the five years previous. Mention not the importance of the previous five years. It is paramount to acknowledge the previous five years as a great suffering of self. Still, if suffering is born out of desire - then clearly the answer is that my desire was not right. My desire to climb a ladder or outshine the rest or hermit myself away from social circles was not the most productive it could be.
Had it been more simple, more open, more fluid... perhaps I wouldn't have felt so paralyzed and suffocated the following five years. Breaking through at this time, I have no fear or shame in starting down a new path. One with limited but powerful knowledge. One with productive and honest, ethical power. Power to obtain peace, joy, faith, friendship. That will make all of the five years to come a little easier to manage.
As the knuckleheads would say, "that's legit."