Current location:	The Gutter
Current mood:	pissed off
Current music:	Cat Stevens

Give me what I want and I'll go away.

*sigh*

I was turned down for another copywriting job today because I take SEPTA. How discriminatory. The guy wouldn't even give me the address so I could figure out a route. He just swore they were nowhere near any public transportation whatsoever and hung up. It was going really well up until that point. It sounded like me and that job were a perfect match. I even felt like I had the upper hand because they really wanted someone with my particular array of skills and experience. It would have been $1 less per hour, meaning I'd be out $32/month, but it was in Lansdale, so I could have purchased the cross county trailpass and saved $46/month over the insanely expensive zone 3 one I have to use now. So in the end I'd be up $14/month. Like SEPTA doesn't go to Lansdale. Hello? I went to school in Lansdale for a year and a half, and I worked in Lansdale for almost three years. I'm just a little bit familiar with the area, thank you very much.

I want to die.

A reasonable person would take this as a sign that I should learn to drive, and to them I say, eff that! That place was going to pay me $1 less than I'm making now. It is not worth spending money on car insurance and gas for that. I hope they're forced to hire a less qualified person and it's a disaster, and a few weeks from now they're offering to pick me up for work AND pay me what I'm asking. It's their loss, really.

So now I'm back to square one AGAIN. It's so frustrating. So rarely do these positions come along that don't require a degree. Grrr!! I'm going to be a temp for life. Damn you, Kelly Services. That's, right I said DAMN YOU, KELLY SERVICES!! I hope they read this. They've made my list of things that ruined my career...

1. Lansdale School of Business
2. Kelly Services
3. My various high school guidance counselors
4. The economy
5. Sallie Mae

"The computer field," hmmph. My arse. Screw computers. I'm finally moving to that shack in the woods I've been talking about, with nothing in it but a typewriter and a black and white analog TV. Oh, crap they're switching to digital next year. There goes that plan.

Seriously, I wish I would have been born forty years earlier, when there was no "computer field." Then I probably would have done the right thing and majored in English or journalism and gotten some kind of writing job. Or maybe not. I might have just been a housewife... Even better!! I'd be a housewife and use my spare time to write a novel. Oh, those were the days. Damn feminists. They've made my list too. Number six, FEMINISTS.

I'm ranting now so I'm going to stop and take a deep breath and eat some chocolate.