working girl (minus the sex)
Ladies and gentlemen,
I have a job. Not just that. I have a kick-ass job, provided for me by Staffmark, your friendly neighborhood temp agency. Starting Monday, I will be an office assistant at AIM Healthcare from 8-5 Monday through Friday. At minimum wage, you ask? Indeed not, oh curious one. The [god(ess)(e)(s)]* smiled down upon me and granted me $12/hour. Yes. However, I don't get paid until a week from next Friday. So, until then, I am still poor as Orphan Annie.
So, I am entering the work force. And, although I know it is the "establishment" and simply a "paycheck", it still feels really good. I mean, I know I'm young and should be challenging authority instead of working for it, but I also have a few alternate voices floating around in my head.
1. blind defiance to authority simply for the sake of defiance is just as blind as, say, conformity to the system. (see Taylor Mali's "Totally Like Whatever You Know")
2. if I am ever to truly defy authority, I must first be able to recognize its flaws from a personal basis so as not to rely on a second or third-hand source
3. I am poor and need basic things like distraction.
And it's about to rain, and I'm at the library and would rather not have to drive in this business, so I'm off prematurely. Love to all.
*if you believe in the divine at all
I have a job. Not just that. I have a kick-ass job, provided for me by Staffmark, your friendly neighborhood temp agency. Starting Monday, I will be an office assistant at AIM Healthcare from 8-5 Monday through Friday. At minimum wage, you ask? Indeed not, oh curious one. The [god(ess)(e)(s)]* smiled down upon me and granted me $12/hour. Yes. However, I don't get paid until a week from next Friday. So, until then, I am still poor as Orphan Annie.
So, I am entering the work force. And, although I know it is the "establishment" and simply a "paycheck", it still feels really good. I mean, I know I'm young and should be challenging authority instead of working for it, but I also have a few alternate voices floating around in my head.
1. blind defiance to authority simply for the sake of defiance is just as blind as, say, conformity to the system. (see Taylor Mali's "Totally Like Whatever You Know")
2. if I am ever to truly defy authority, I must first be able to recognize its flaws from a personal basis so as not to rely on a second or third-hand source
3. I am poor and need basic things like distraction.
And it's about to rain, and I'm at the library and would rather not have to drive in this business, so I'm off prematurely. Love to all.
*if you believe in the divine at all