Thursday, November 03, 2005

Ahhh, work. Yup, I'm back working again. It sucks about as much as I remembered it. All that time off was great, but now I'm extremely warped for getting a taste outside of the indentured servant ant life. Ned, Paul, and I used to talk in high school about "The Trend" and that we were going to fight it. There's just no damn way around it. I'm depressed. What the fuck am I working towards? I'm in debt and I've never saved a penny. I'll never retire. Where is that enjoyable career that was suppose to fall in my lap? Where was the lightning strike to show me my destiny? Of course, these are all things I've already gone over in my head as a tween drunkard, but somehow I feel them all welling up again. It's too early for a midlife crisis, and besides I had a really tough time coping with my teenage years. I thought I was only suppose to experience that major loss of self once in life. I wanted to be a musician or a writer. I guess I'd still like to do that, but for the last five years or so I haven't had a single creative thought. My dreams that were once facinating in complexity are now a mere reflection of what I did that day, or more likely what show I watched on T.V. ("I feel stupid and contagious, here we are now, entertain us." K.C.) I know I'm a spoiled brat. I've never had to suffer hardship or pain. I'm just flat bored and tired of workin' for the Man. What's that little voice in my head sayin'? I think it said, "get off your ass and change things." I think four back to back episodes of South Park should drug that little bugger voice back into his hole. How dare my spirit speak to my soul in that tone after being silent so long.

3 Comments:

At 8:33 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good luck finding something suiting. Brad and I are in a similar employment crisis. What happened to my sacred dream of growing up and becoming a princess astronaut? Dammit.

 
At 1:41 PM, Blogger longmont resident said...

You mean I have to wait for a mid-life crisis? I think I've constantly had one since my late 20's.

Honestly - I can't help but feel jipped that we are born without any say in the process, then expected to consume as many natural resources as possible in our short lives, and then die. Not only that though - we have to support ourselves, the only acceptable way being - by being employed by organizations that factor the mass consumption of natural resources for profit, which even includes public & non-profit companies.

So all I want to do is do nothing, but I can't fucking afford to do nothing! Something is wrong here...

 
At 7:38 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

We shall forever fight "THE TREND"! Reading that post brought back some incredible memories of Jr. High and High School. Those carefree days on "the island" across the street from your house, swimming out to the sandbar, drinking ourselves numb... We were going to run off to California, live on the beach, play music. What happened??!!?? We all lost our way... I've been at my "trend" job for over 14 years now. Hair is gray, belly is fat, spirit is broken... Wondering what comes next... 20 more years of "the trend"?? Retire... To what??? Too old to do anything that we should have done in our 20's... When you are young, you think you have all the time in the world. Then you age... Slowly at first - then you are looking at the BIG 4-0... What happened???? WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED????

Paul

 

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