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Dear 16-year-old me,
Hi. There are a couple more things I want to tell you. This letter is about Life, the Universe, and Everything.
...If you didn't get that reference, give it a few more years.
This letter is a little more abstract because it doesn't organize so easily.
School
You try Music Education at ISU for a few years, but the style of teaching just doesn't work for you. You briefly entertain the idea of musical instrument repair, specifically flutes and other winds, but that would require you to move away to Iowa. So you take a semester off to get your thoughts together, and you do a complete 360. You start classes at Ivy Tech for Computer Science, which seems a better fit. It accommodates your growing internet addiction (which you need to work on, hinthint) and plays on some skills you already have. Plus, Minecraft. It also turns out you're pretty good at computer programming, so much so that you consider becoming a programmer. (Again, Minecraft.) You switch to online classes because that just plum makes sense; why be uncomfortable around people you don't know when you don't have to be?
Work
Okay, in an earlier letter I mentioned that you quit Long John's. Actually, you might not be working there yet. In October 2007, you start working at Long John Silver's, 4th and Ohio. You're there for the rest of high school and your entire time at ISU. You saw many people come and go, but you were there for just shy of 4 years. Then Melissa (the GM) needed another manager and you asked that she train you. At the last second, she decided to train Peyton instead, saying "You're the better choice, but I'm training Peyton because he doesn't have a lot going for him." B-freaking-S. He has parents who are ready to pull him out of there at a moment's notice and pay for everything for the rest of his stupid cushy life. That's exactly what happens too. You secure another job and put in your two-week's notice. Peyton takes 6 more months to start his training and is only manager for a month before his dad scoops him up and moves him out to Washington (state), paying for an apartment and college. Sucks to be Long John's.
Your next job is at Alorica, an AT&T Customer Service Call Center. You are the top of your training class, but you secretly hate it there. There are so many rules and little details that you can't keep track of. Plus, you're not very good at talking to people you don't know. You secure another job and just plain quit.
Your current job is the best one by far. You work at Hardee's North Third, and right off the bat they want to promote you. You have tons of caring and skilled managers looking out for you, and plenty of coworkers who make your day just a little bit brighter. You got a few of your friends jobs there as well. They depend on you as if you've been there a long time. It's not a career by any means, bit it's the best job you've had so far.
It's getting late, I'm gonna have to cut this in half. Stay tuned.
Sincerely,
Carey, 22
Hi. There are a couple more things I want to tell you. This letter is about Life, the Universe, and Everything.
...If you didn't get that reference, give it a few more years.
This letter is a little more abstract because it doesn't organize so easily.
School
You try Music Education at ISU for a few years, but the style of teaching just doesn't work for you. You briefly entertain the idea of musical instrument repair, specifically flutes and other winds, but that would require you to move away to Iowa. So you take a semester off to get your thoughts together, and you do a complete 360. You start classes at Ivy Tech for Computer Science, which seems a better fit. It accommodates your growing internet addiction (which you need to work on, hinthint) and plays on some skills you already have. Plus, Minecraft. It also turns out you're pretty good at computer programming, so much so that you consider becoming a programmer. (Again, Minecraft.) You switch to online classes because that just plum makes sense; why be uncomfortable around people you don't know when you don't have to be?
Work
Okay, in an earlier letter I mentioned that you quit Long John's. Actually, you might not be working there yet. In October 2007, you start working at Long John Silver's, 4th and Ohio. You're there for the rest of high school and your entire time at ISU. You saw many people come and go, but you were there for just shy of 4 years. Then Melissa (the GM) needed another manager and you asked that she train you. At the last second, she decided to train Peyton instead, saying "You're the better choice, but I'm training Peyton because he doesn't have a lot going for him." B-freaking-S. He has parents who are ready to pull him out of there at a moment's notice and pay for everything for the rest of his stupid cushy life. That's exactly what happens too. You secure another job and put in your two-week's notice. Peyton takes 6 more months to start his training and is only manager for a month before his dad scoops him up and moves him out to Washington (state), paying for an apartment and college. Sucks to be Long John's.
Your next job is at Alorica, an AT&T Customer Service Call Center. You are the top of your training class, but you secretly hate it there. There are so many rules and little details that you can't keep track of. Plus, you're not very good at talking to people you don't know. You secure another job and just plain quit.
Your current job is the best one by far. You work at Hardee's North Third, and right off the bat they want to promote you. You have tons of caring and skilled managers looking out for you, and plenty of coworkers who make your day just a little bit brighter. You got a few of your friends jobs there as well. They depend on you as if you've been there a long time. It's not a career by any means, bit it's the best job you've had so far.
It's getting late, I'm gonna have to cut this in half. Stay tuned.
Sincerely,
Carey, 22