Arghagahagagghhh.... sooo it doesn't help waking up at 12pm [okay yea I know I suck at waking up / being motivated] and beginning your day calling places you've applied to, just to find out that only ONE place is "maybe" hiring. That's what happened to meee today... called the four Starbucks I applied to and only oneeee is hiring, which you know what that means: there's going to be about half the town applying for that position, too and me lost somewhere in that jumbled mess of online applications... gah for all i know they probably already deleted me from the database.
In other news and an unemployed 21-year-old [who would typically be graduating next year.....if it wasnt for architecture... ahhh scaaaaryyyy seeing as i have nooooooo job noow].... is that I would like to begin writing about things i cannnn do and probably will have the opportunity to do this summer seeing as it might just be unhired me all summer long.... So! here are some things i can/ should do to prevent myself from thinking i am a waste of life:
well i saw rich is going to be taking up some sort of photography project this summer and since i loved my class last summer i might as well take that up again.... especially because my neighborhood is so bland and cookie-cutter it'll force me to go somewhere else and to find something else more interesting to take pictures of.... annnddd since rich is over in Troy [even though that is an unfortunate circumstance, because Troy truly sucks and drains all of your love and compassion as a person straight out of you] it does have some sweet spots for taking pictures... heck if i'm unemployed it might be fun to just start testing the law and visiting all those sweet 'underground' albany artsy-people hangouts for photo opps..
okay, some other things i can 'maybe', hopefully do this summer: build my own website. i really dont know html, but i think it would be beneficial if i did.... that way i can have soooommmeething universal to put down on my resume besides rhino/microstation and then the everybodyusesthemprograms like word, excel... blah blah blah.... also, i kind of miss practicing c++ sooo maybe doing some computery things will bring me back in touch with that stufff.... anddd offff couuuurse while there is law-bending associated with photography there haaaaas to be something with this... which is where i could start reading those hacker blogs and become a super genius computer hacker for kicks and giggles... that'd be sweet and super nerdy sooo yea theres an option...
let's see another something to do: i could take my writing more serious and start producing articles/ research papers like i learned in writing class last semester... i mean the things i wrote about for the first essay about sound and imagery is really something i would like to continue learning about and pursuing... especially if i'm on the fence about my major doing something like this might clarify/ give me insight for what i'm interested in and what i should ultimately pursue. sooo some short brainstormed topics i could write aboutttt would be: sound/acoustics, consciousness, architecture/theories and history, language/linguistics, space/time, physics, music, aesthetics, subjectivity, evolution, biology/ecology, marine life, ahhhhh okay the list can go on and on but those are some that i could think of now...
another idea that just came to mind: the firm WSDG offered me a position for next Spring [ahhhh conflicting with schoooolll/ not a good time seeing as i should be deciding NOW whether i want to go into acoustics or nooooot] buttt since it is summertime and i am an unemployed young person, maybe i should go and visit the firm and ask to see what architectural acousticians really dooo... i mean there's probably nothing more fun than dropping in on the old possible-employer to shadow people and make yourself look like a super interested baboon... i mean that could be great, right? well its the best i could come up with for thinking about something fun/ interesting to do this summer...
okay some other more awesomely extreme ideas: i could become the Top Gear connoisseur and just know everything about everything on that show and then Opra will want me to come talk to her about my amazing Top Gear mind and how i learned all of this wealth of knowledge .... yeaaaa... okay that's more of an awesomely fun idea than anything else.
i hesitate to put 'work on my portfolio' or 'work on some archie' project down as a serious entry here and that's because thats ALWAYS on my list of things to do.... buuuuut curiously it neverrrr gets done? it's probably an act of God that i actually finished something reminicent of a portfolio this past semester.... you know about 2 weeks after the architecture job fair... but still.... it was SOMETHING i made to some sort of odd completion...
hmmm... not sure if i can think of anything more great to do this summer... besides cry and moan about my lack of hire-ability and how it's not only in school where i suck but also in the world of 'real life'.... all i can hope for is some awesome vacation times from myyyy seriousss boooooredooommm..
-c
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