Wonderful chat with Chris re: life and jobs

Chris: urgh I realize I have no marketable skills. this is SO annoying I hate applying for jobs
me: omg I KNOW
marketable being the key word
i'm in EXACTLY the same boat
1:35 PM as in i will have zero dollars when i return from germany, and somehow i still need to make loan, phone, and insurance payments
Chris: the only thing I could possible do is open a GermanPhilosophical consutancy agency and then turn all my sessions into play... me: hahahaha
du sprichst mir aus der seele
god im even forgetting german
Chris: seriously this is so annoying and I'm looking at places in London and they are RIDICULOUS this one place which I found is my dream house. Sold glass penthouse to RENT just to rent was 1800£
A WEEK
1:36 PM me: oh i believe it sista
Chris: that $12k a month
haha yeah my german is going a bit
I keep having these moments where I think: I'm just going to seel out and become a buisness person. But again I have NO skills
1:37 PM and it's so annoying b/c I know people who are working for banks/goldman sachs etc and they are STUPID and making 809398420 million dollars a min
me: i want to work educational conferences in dc again, but i feel kind of blacklisted because one session ended badly and i didnt get hired back the next summer
um YES
im having a hard time adjusting to the job world
Chris: seriously
urgh. I kind of wish I never left Vienna
1:38 PM me: people like you and me..it's like, well, I know im smart
shouldnt that be enough
haha
i can write you a creative piece
Chris: exactly!
me: um but marketable skills?
certifications/
?
Chris: it's so vexing
me: i feel like im in the same boat you are
1:39 PM and all of the supervisors ive had have been dumb as rocks with ZERO creativity
theyre just specialized
Chris: then I see my one friend who majored in "communications" and is working at a constulancy firm. I'm like "communications" wtf? I can talk to people. I use twitter.
it's SOOO annoying
I hate dumb supervisors
me: because they went to dumb people school where you can actually major in things like being an office worker
i know
1:40 PM it's such shit
Chris: EXACTLY!
me: it's hard to be like, well i majored in how to think
...
Chris: like in Vienna where you go to school to become a waiter.
well hell I could have done that if I was an unimaginative moron
me: hahaha
you are truly speaking my mind right now
1:41 PM you crack me up
Chris: thinking is dangerous! they only want people to think the same way they do
me: omg seriously
im kinda pissed that i got let go from my front desk job
it's like being dumped by a loser guy who wasn't good enough for you
Chris: haha
1:42 PM me: and it was based entirely on a feeling
Chris: I shouldn't worry about it. those people sounded like they didn't appreciate your natural genius anyway
me: my supervisor, who ironically was the ONLY person in the office i didnt actually do work for so who never saw what i was doing for gazillions of other university people, was like i dont get the feeling that youre the right fit for the position
everyone else was like wtf surprised
1:43 PM i went in 3 days later for something different in the building and they didnt know id been let go
they were like what? i thought you just took the day off
yeah it sucked
Chris: omg what asses these people are
1:44 PM me: it was 100% admin in the most formal business office at au
it's just their environment...it's very rigid and business-like
clinical
uptight
completely non-social
Chris: it's like the whole job world is the upside-down world of how things should be. If you're smart and creative you are fired but if you are a mindless drone with the intelligence of a 3 ton beluga whale then you are a "perfect fit"
1:45 PM me: hahahaha
everything you are saying is perfect
Chris: painful I can't deal with uptight clinical settings
me: the girl who...granted im really good friends with...but who is like the office darling and was making twice what i was went to the university of charleston
was drugged out the whole four years
Chris: haha it's just so frustrating in the past week I've applied to something like 8 jobs... haven't heard a thing back from them AHHHH and this time I'm actually doing somehting I have experience in like teaching
1:46 PM me: and asks me the meaning of basic vocab and idiomatic expressions i use
but a week isnt long
Chris: AHHH! wtf. I should have majored in STUPID when I went to college. I'd be a millionare
me: people take forever to get back
hahahaha
can i please quote you on fb?
1:47 PM Chris: I know I'm just really impatient now I have to leave bama.
haha but of course
me: because honestliy, this convo is making me feel so much better
less alone im what ive been thinking about since leaving vienna
Chris: yes venting is good
1:48 PM me: and dc, while i love it for its physical layout and its cultural hotspots, is probably one of the worst places work-wise for me to be in right now
because talk about bullshit office jobs
and corporate blah blah
it's the hub of all that i despise
1:49 PM Chris: yeah I imagine all the sentorial political wannabes are infernally annoying
1:50 PM I keep coming up with 5 year plans of my life. Basically I think now in 5 years if I don't have a good job, an extant social life etc etc I am just going to sell everything I have and move back to Vienna and die in a coffee house of old age
1:51 PM me: hahahaha
you are in fine form today chris martin
1:52 PM Chris: haha I just feel I need to vent. I really have an urge to walk into a glass store and break everything haha
maybe I should go bang some drums
1:53 PM me: hahahha
sorry im being the person i usually detest in just answering hahahha
but you are really making me laugh
the hahas are real
i want to like copy/paste the part about selling everything and dying in a vienna coffee house of old age
1:54 PM and make it my new religious beliefs on fb
Chris: HAHA brilliant
1:55 PM me: ive only been in ohio for about 18 hours and already im turning into an old person
i spent 30 minutes bird watching out the window
Chris: I don't know why I'm waiting until I'm 30... in fact I have often thought about going back to Vienna, but I feel now, so soon, it would be like giving up haha
me: there was a hawk
1:56 PM well money is definitely the factor for me
Chris: OMG I bird watched today too! haha there were all these birds migrating I guess and they were so noisy
me: i should be saving the only remaining $ i have left in this world and using it to eventually move there, not visit, but im impatient
haha nice
1:57 PM my mom and stepdad have like 6 bird feeders outside the back window
they get alllll kinds of birds and squirrels and chipmunks and hawks and groundhogs
i watched a squirrel drink from the dirty bird bath
and then watched the hawk try to eat a bird
Chris: haha delightful
me: did i tell you i pet a squirrel in dc???
1:58 PM Chris: mean nasty hawk, I do like them though
me: one of my life-long dreams, fulfilled
yeah but they have to eat too
1:59 PM im going to do something i havent done in years and exercise
theyve got a sort of home gym in their basement
Chris: oh nice!
I should exercise too but first I should have some lunch
me: sounds like something i would say
2:00 PM Chris: hehe a wise thing to say indeed
me: you sir are hilarious
Chris: the only thing that's amusing is the truth, for that's all I say hehe