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Jul
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2011

chronicles of a quarter-life employment crisis

Ah, the smirk-faced question about having an ‘unstable’ job history. My favorite.

I always want to reply with something snarky, like “I know that by the time you were 27, you’d already been at this company for 10 years and now you’ve been here for 40 years because you have no imagination and have never wanted more for yourself and you’re boring me to death just by looking at me, but guess what, times are different now, grandpa.

It’s not my fault your generation screwed everything up and now we are in school for 21 years of our lives, fed with false promises, then released into the wild with only service industry jobs and a meaningless degree to show for it, and yes I changed service industry jobs practically every year but I hardly see how that makes me unstable or why I should be particularly loyal to a restaurant (!!!) that pays me minimum wage.

Please just go ahead and retire with the money that you pillaged from your employees and probably from the poor and maybe even babies, you life and economic resource sucking zombie, so the world can move on and look back and condemn you properly.”

I don’t want your job anyway.

1 note | job search and destroy | bridging the generation gap | with my fist
  1. juicywonderful said: I hate attempting to answer the question “So how did you get from Georgia to Indiana?”. I’m tired of trying to find ways to spin why I ran away from Athens.
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