In the four times in my life that I've been unemployed (twice due to lay-offs), I've never had anywhere near as much trouble finding a decent job as I'm having now. However, I finally got an interview today. Going in, I didn't know much about the company except that they make medical devices of some kind, and that they're actually bucking the trend of lay-offs, downsizing, and increasingly shitty benefits in the U.S.

In fact, thier recent growth has been amazing. How are they doing it? Well, it turns out they manufacture drug-testing kits; you know -- the whizz quiz. Apparently, the only growth industry around here is the one that thrives on paranoia, suspicion, and the humiliation of employees and job-seekers. I found this to be pretty emblematic of how low the U.S. is sinking under the leadership of blindly ideological, fatcat corporate dynasts and scumbag lawyers from both major parties.

Anyway, the job itself is just mindless widget making. The take-home lesson, kids, is stay out of colleges and trade schools. They won't do you any good. Chances are high that your skills will be irrelevent before you even graduate.

For my own part, I've decided to summon all the world's evil and create an army of the damned. Only in this can my seething hatred find release.

I probably shouldn't let that slip out during my next job interview though.

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I was gonna send a robot back in time, but I got high.

Greed sucks.

It's killing the world.

And we're letting it.

*sigh*

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

You're recruiting politicians and lawyers?

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I will rate you hard, and unendingly.

MY advice is to get into college and do your best to get good grades, go for the major you love, but makre sure you have a minor that you love just a bit less. Going to college is *not* pointless. It can mean the difference between night manager at Burger King and CEO of a startup company worth million.

Yes, the job market is worse today than it really should be, but don't let that defeat you. Unless you think you can get in, make a shitload of cash, and get out before the fall, don't pick up on fad careers (like all the people in the early-mid 90s who hopped on the internet bandwagon).

Sure, a lot of jobs have been phased out (hell, my dad can't find work, and he's an electrician), but the best job you can ever have is one you create. If you can't find a job, diversify, learn new skills. College or not, new skills are always helpful in the market. I lost my last job because I didn't have the skills needed as the company was expanding, so I was let go.

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

When he says college, he means specialized colleges, not University.

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Poop.

What you do is find out where your CEO lives. Then find out which is most in need of a banging... his wife, daughter or family pet. then, years later when he lays you off you still have that to look back on.

Oh. and stay in college kids. That's where you'll have the best sex of your life.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

Unless you go to a tech college. Then it's a sausage fest.

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Poop.