Unpaid Leverages
I didn't purchase a paid account, nor have I spoken for the past month. Tsk tsk, I know. Good news is, I work at the San Mateo Daily Journal, and I have an interview for Sony in a week (game testing, or if you want to be professional, Quality Assurance Tester). I've been watching more movies than I can count (just saw Boondock Saints and The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys) because I've found the wonders of a library card and a DVD section.
I'm going to be starting work on a "novel" for a game soon. The story will be called The Travels of Fen Tyra, and it's a copycat of The Travels of Marco Polo, except in a fantasy universe. Fen Tyra is a ginseng merchant who travels through this island archipelgo searching Indiana Jones style for a place called the Bridge of Rain, a legendary portal to another world, much more ancient than his own.
It's difficult being out of school. No solid work, and nobody wants you unless you're willing to either spit in the faces of others, or haul off rental cars to the airport. I've been learning in these past weeks that getting a job isn't what it used to be. You can't get a degree and expect people to be clapping your back and begging to throw you into a pit of money. In order to make a living around here, you have to accept anything, and work from there. You wonder why people don't get jobs in their degree? It's not because they've lost faith in their degree. It's because the old degrees don't count for the new world. Jobs nowadays don't care if you have a literature or a physics degree. Hell, almost anyone can spell today, with spellcheckers and community colleges! Today, it's more important if you can use excel or if you are proficient in how to operate specialized machinery like REMs or telescopes or scientific computers. And that's stuff you don't learn in undergraduate university, and probably very little do you learn in graduate programs, unless you find a technical school that trains you in the how to of machines.
I'm going to be starting work on a "novel" for a game soon. The story will be called The Travels of Fen Tyra, and it's a copycat of The Travels of Marco Polo, except in a fantasy universe. Fen Tyra is a ginseng merchant who travels through this island archipelgo searching Indiana Jones style for a place called the Bridge of Rain, a legendary portal to another world, much more ancient than his own.
It's difficult being out of school. No solid work, and nobody wants you unless you're willing to either spit in the faces of others, or haul off rental cars to the airport. I've been learning in these past weeks that getting a job isn't what it used to be. You can't get a degree and expect people to be clapping your back and begging to throw you into a pit of money. In order to make a living around here, you have to accept anything, and work from there. You wonder why people don't get jobs in their degree? It's not because they've lost faith in their degree. It's because the old degrees don't count for the new world. Jobs nowadays don't care if you have a literature or a physics degree. Hell, almost anyone can spell today, with spellcheckers and community colleges! Today, it's more important if you can use excel or if you are proficient in how to operate specialized machinery like REMs or telescopes or scientific computers. And that's stuff you don't learn in undergraduate university, and probably very little do you learn in graduate programs, unless you find a technical school that trains you in the how to of machines.