Starving Artist No More!

I got a job!

...Yeah, I know what you guys are thinking. "About damn time." Well, you know what? Shut up. It was difficult.

It's kind of funny... My father is a code monkey for the Target Corporation, my older sister and my mother both have worked in a Target store, and my younger sister currently works for one. I've applied over 5 times to various Target stores, and they turned me down each time. So, where's this new job, you may ask?

I shit you not.

Yeah, I got tired of Target not taking a multilingual, charismatic, energetic guy like myself. So, what did I do? I went to their largest competitors. SUCK IT, TARR-JAAY.

...I wish I could actually say my intentions were that structured, but they really weren't. I have to find a way to pay for my college somehow, so I decided to apply EVERYWHERE. I mean, I figured that I filled out almost 70 applications; 50 of those places were within walking distance of my house. Walmart was actually the first place that gave me an offer. This process took over 5 months.

I had been earning cash on and off before this; playing music, beta testing for Rosetta Stone, editing a paper or an essay or a book here and there. The cash flow was enough to allow for basic recreation, but not enough where I would spend entire days out and come back to look at my bank account and want to punch myself in the nose. Now, though, I'm working in a Walmart's bakery and makin' gold enough to keep myself fed! Getting a job right now won't be nearly as fun as getting a job that I actually want to make into a career, but nevertheless, I am REVELING in the moment.

Now to figure out the problem of free time...

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