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This is basically going to be a stream-of-consciousness diary sort of entry that is meant to help me figure out my brain thoughts. Feel free to ignore it.
Day one of the Guilt Trip (as we are now calling it) complete. Not too shabby, so far. Mom even said she'd do what she could to help out w/the Wisconsin thing, as a graduation present, which is really unexpected and nice. I wish I had my own funds though, I feel really bad taking help from my parents who are already in pretty dire financial straits generally. Well, I guess that's why God made Sallie Mae.
I am currently at this moment talking with Dad about future plans ...
Well, that was fun. Basically, summer = set (apart from actually applying for continuing education loans), and next year is set in that I will either be in grad school or be doing a Monbusho thing in Japan. What is not set, however, is that intervening time in between the end of this summer and the beginning of whatever I'll be doing next year. Soooo, let's see. Priorities:
1) Make some dollars. I cannot possibly continue to live on student loans, barring a mad awesome scholarship. I need to get some kind of job that will allow me to start paying off loans, as well as live comfortably. What kind of job could I get? Here're the thoughts..
1a) Something retail or generic and boring (e.g. bank teller) - the advantage to this would be basically the ease of getting it in a shitty job market. I feel pretty confident that I could get something boring without too much effort, but the disadvantage is that they pay would be terrible, the hours probably awful/less plentiful than I would need. I might even need to get two of them, which would double suck. However, this is probably how I have to start off what I think I shall call "the Interim Period."
1b) Freelance translation. This is at best, a supplemental thing and not something I could count on.
1c) Translation-as-job. Hard to find and probably overstating my own abilities, but the advantage would be that it would be something I could proudly list on a résumé, and would probably pay better than most other things I could get given that it would be in a field I actually spent my college career working on.
1d) Something political - e.g. paid internship or other position. Again, something to list proudly on my résumé, but the disadvantage is that political jobs tend to pay crapalicious. I'm also not sure I'm cut out for political work.. It's sooo social.
1e) Anything else high-paying. Uhhhh yeah. This is something that is unplannable.2) Keep learning. I deffos want to keep on the education, so wherever I end up I want to at least keep taking part-time classes so that I keep myself fresh and fun and the brain sharp. Wheeeeeeeee.
Cannot keep thinking, sister interruption. "WHY ARE YOU FIGURING OUT YOUR LIFE PLAN VIA BLOG" she says. Also, she says, "SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP" six times.
Day one of the Guilt Trip (as we are now calling it) complete. Not too shabby, so far. Mom even said she'd do what she could to help out w/the Wisconsin thing, as a graduation present, which is really unexpected and nice. I wish I had my own funds though, I feel really bad taking help from my parents who are already in pretty dire financial straits generally. Well, I guess that's why God made Sallie Mae.
I am currently at this moment talking with Dad about future plans ...
Well, that was fun. Basically, summer = set (apart from actually applying for continuing education loans), and next year is set in that I will either be in grad school or be doing a Monbusho thing in Japan. What is not set, however, is that intervening time in between the end of this summer and the beginning of whatever I'll be doing next year. Soooo, let's see. Priorities:
1) Make some dollars. I cannot possibly continue to live on student loans, barring a mad awesome scholarship. I need to get some kind of job that will allow me to start paying off loans, as well as live comfortably. What kind of job could I get? Here're the thoughts..
1a) Something retail or generic and boring (e.g. bank teller) - the advantage to this would be basically the ease of getting it in a shitty job market. I feel pretty confident that I could get something boring without too much effort, but the disadvantage is that they pay would be terrible, the hours probably awful/less plentiful than I would need. I might even need to get two of them, which would double suck. However, this is probably how I have to start off what I think I shall call "the Interim Period."
1b) Freelance translation. This is at best, a supplemental thing and not something I could count on.
1c) Translation-as-job. Hard to find and probably overstating my own abilities, but the advantage would be that it would be something I could proudly list on a résumé, and would probably pay better than most other things I could get given that it would be in a field I actually spent my college career working on.
1d) Something political - e.g. paid internship or other position. Again, something to list proudly on my résumé, but the disadvantage is that political jobs tend to pay crapalicious. I'm also not sure I'm cut out for political work.. It's sooo social.
1e) Anything else high-paying. Uhhhh yeah. This is something that is unplannable.2) Keep learning. I deffos want to keep on the education, so wherever I end up I want to at least keep taking part-time classes so that I keep myself fresh and fun and the brain sharp. Wheeeeeeeee.
Cannot keep thinking, sister interruption. "WHY ARE YOU FIGURING OUT YOUR LIFE PLAN VIA BLOG" she says. Also, she says, "SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP" six times.