Help Greg Look for Work

[Sarastro]

in fact, i've decided not to go to school yet

You are amusing me and reminding me myself at once. With a little difference - I came from another continent, and saw a great plenty of opportunities in USA, not knowing what to choose and being totally free in choice. So...the time had passed and I was still thinking...thinking-thinking, about music, about Mathematics, about everything. At last I understood that I could have kept thinking forever. And the bitterness of wasted time then filled me up, so I decided not to lose any more time, having been in US for a year and being already a resident to go to college, now my second week goes. The advantage of US system of education is that you can take classes, and sometimes classes are crossed or the same general and changing a major is much easier than in Russia, for example. As long as you are studying, you gain something, you learn something new that will help you in future. I'm still uncertain, and nobody knows what will happen, but intelligence is nothing without learning, alas. So...go, move, and life will show you and lead you to what you were entitled to by the fate.

[greg]

You are amusing me and reminding me myself at once. With a little difference - I came from another continent, and saw a great plenty of opportunities in USA, not knowing what to choose and being totally free in choice. So...the time had passed and I was still thinking...thinking-thinking, about music, about Mathematics, about everything. At last I understood that I could have kept thinking forever. And the bitterness of wasted time then filled me up, so I decided not to lose any more time, having been in US for a year and being already a resident to go to college, now my second week goes. The advantage of US system of education is that you can take classes, and sometimes classes are crossed or the same general and changing a major is much easier than in Russia, for example. As long as you are studying, you gain something, you learn something new that will help you in future. I'm still uncertain, and nobody knows what will happen, but intelligence is nothing without learning, alas. So...go, move, and life will show you and lead you to what you were entitled to by the fate.

oh, sure, thanks, and good luck, man! 

Why don't you write a best selling novel .That's working from home.Then sell the movie rights for millions.

lol, i'm not a great writer 
my A stories are one-of-a-kind, but i doubt serious grownups would ever buy a book of those.

[greg]

I just called my future school and the class starts again April 8.... originally, i was planning to go in a week, but because of many reasons, it's not a good time yet. April 8 will be very good, though 

[Que]

You'd probably being a classical music store clerk, a job that existed in pre-historic times, when people bought classical music in record stores.  I remember going to J&R music world on park row to buy classical recordings.  If you asked for a particular recording, the clerk would pontificate for at least five minutes on how that was the worst recording ever made of the piece in question, naming at least 5 fatal flaws, such as the fact that the conductor is a hack, the recording engineer is incompetent, the pressing is bad, the clarinets play too loud, etc.  Then they would start off on the ten other recordings that were obviously superior.  But now there are no classical record stores.  Instead we have these web sites.

That was what I did during university - only some of the customers did all the ranting! 

Q

[greg]

That was what I did during university - only some of the customers did all the ranting! 

Q

man, i'd love that..... 

[BorisG]

Chippendale dancer or baggage handler.

[Brian]

Chippendale dancer or baggage handler.

If you become a Chippendale dancer, someone might end up handling your baggage...

[greg]

mannnnnnn

i'll try to keep this short, but could anyone give an explanation of this? (it's not really related to work, but i'd rather not post another thread)

yesterday, 5-10 work, best hours (last hour no customers, just chill and easy stuff  0:) ), so not much stress..... but i have a very hard time getting to sleep even though i feel tired (this has always been very common for me). But I wake up at 5 (when i'm supposed to wake up at 7) and feel extremely jumbled, it took like 10 minutes for me to realize what was in my bed was me, and not a bunch of boxes and merchandise.....
so i get up and feel like i have to walk around even though i'm still extremely tired. I do this for a long time and then turn on the computer and listen to music (Krzystof Meyer's Piano Quintet)- sat down and listened to all 43' minutes of it- every note then was so unimaginably perfect somehow..... by the time it was over, it was 7 (when i was supposed to wake up).

what's strange is that about a week ago, something similar happened- 5-10, go to sleep and wake up an hour later (though it felt like 5 hrs) and my mind plays back repeatedly the least stressful part of my whole job- walking through the aisles.

but as for the walking around thing, my mom says she's noticed that ever since a few months ago i "constantly pace back and forth".... never noticed myself, really, all i'm doing is thinking. I wonder why i woke up last night 2 hours early extremely tired to walk around?.....  i already get enough exercise


my question is...... could it be related to blood circulation maybe?

[greg]

the reason i wonder about the bad blood circulation thing is also because i've heard some people have a restless leg-type thing, and it seems like i have that occasionally. Not all the time, though, and walking around helps a lot. 

[M forever]

Why don't you write a best selling novel .That's working from home.Then sell the movie rights for millions.

That's what I am planning to do, too, if I find the time. I don't really have a story concept or characters yet, but I think it will contain adventure, mystery, and romance. Exotic places, too. I think that's always a good idea. I am not really into cars, but a lot of people are, so the main character will have a really expensive and exclusive car. And maybe a plane, too. Or a helicopter. Or both. And maybe a submarine, too. That would be really cool. I find submarines really interesting. He will be both very smart and cool (kind of like myself, really, I guess). I haven't decided yet if the novel will also have aliens. Or maybe some highly intelligent underwater dwellers who have lived at the bottom of the ocean hidden from the rest of the world for millenia. At first they clash with us humans, but in the end, they will all be friends. But before that, there will be a lot of action and a lot of stuff blowing up (you can see I am conceptualizing that with the movie already in mind). The main character will also be a very good cook. So we can also market the cook book along with the other merchandise.

Oh man, I just realized I am giving away all these great ideas here! Well, I don't have enough time anyway right now to write the book, so Greg can just go ahead and do it. But I want a slice of the profit, too, and I also want to make a cameo appearance in the movie.

[greg]

That's what I am planning to do, too, if I find the time. I don't really have a story concept or characters yet, but I think it will contain adventure, mystery, and romance. Exotic places, too. I think that's always a good idea. I am not really into cars, but a lot of people are, so the main character will have a really expensive and exclusive car. And maybe a plane, too. Or a helicopter. Or both. And maybe a submarine, too. That would be really cool. I find submarines really interesting. He will be both very smart and cool (kind of like myself, really, I guess). I haven't decided yet if the novel will also have aliens. Or maybe some highly intelligent underwater dwellers who have lived at the bottom of the ocean hidden from the rest of the world for millenia. At first they clash with us humans, but in the end, they will all be friends. But before that, there will be a lot of action and a lot of stuff blowing up (you can see I am conceptualizing that with the movie already in mind). The main character will also be a very good cook. So we can also market the cook book along with the other merchandise.

Oh man, I just realized I am giving away all these great ideas here! Well, I don't have enough time anyway right now to write the book, so Greg can just go ahead and do it. But I want a slice of the profit, too, and I also want to make a cameo appearance in the movie.

lol, you could call it "Hollywood"......
and the main character could be named "Hollywood"....
his mom's name is "Holly", his father's name is "Wood"..... it just might need a few zombies, you know, to attract the gothic audience, too, and then i think it sell out every movie theater ever.....

just don't choose Tom Cruise as the leading actor....lol

[Guido]

Why not go to University in Europe? It's basically free to go, aside from living costs, but then student loans are easy enough to get. You'd be able to learn a new langauge or three too... Thinking abou it, I'm not sure if it is free for non EU people, but it would certainly be worht looking into. The amount you have to pay in the US is criminal.

[Novi]

Why not go to University in Europe? It's basically free to go, aside from living costs, but then student loans are easy enough to get. You'd be able to learn a new langauge or three too... Thinking abou it, I'm not sure if it is free for non EU people, but it would certainly be worht looking into. The amount you have to pay in the US is criminal.

Unfortunately, non EU people are charged full fees, substantially more than local fees, but still less than a lot of US institutions. But that's in the UK; I'm not sure about other European universities.

[Guido]

Yes in the UK its ridiculous - Chinese students pay £17,000 a year just to do the same course as I do (I pay £3000). Its slightly cheaper for EU students.

It's certainly different in mainland Europe in that it is definitely free for all EU members, but I'm not sure if its free for Americans.

[greg]

Why not go to University in Europe? It's basically free to go, aside from living costs, but then student loans are easy enough to get. You'd be able to learn a new langauge or three too... Thinking abou it, I'm not sure if it is free for non EU people, but it would certainly be worht looking into. The amount you have to pay in the US is criminal.

that's a wild idea 

[greg]

the last week or so, i've been at my 5-10 schedule during the weekdays, and that's been REALLY good, especially if they let me do other work as well.

But how to survive the weekends?...... the weekends are always going to be longer days, which are personally the worst torture i've ever been through, ever. It feels better having the stomach flu for 9 hours than working there for 9 hours (which really seems like 18).

It's like a long battle- i know how to make it feel slightly less awful, though. Just think of all the stuff i like to think about. So that's what i try to do all day, except it's extremely hard to make your own world be stronger than the real one, especially when you're there the whole day, constantly busy. Anyone have any tips/tricks?


(meanwhile, the library still isn't hiring and they still don't have time to let me do training......)

[greg]

yesterday was fine, it's just that some days i can't relax the whole time for some reason. I guess the trick is to totally turn off your mind and don't care at all- when i do that, that's the only time i'm actually comfortable, and it's easier to be polite.
Anyways, why even bother typing this cuz it's not like anyone can help me out, after all no one else is me. 

[greg]

ok, i don't really need this thread anymore. I think Corey's advice is the best, since he knows exactly where i'm coming from. So I'm going to either figure out how to enjoy this job, try to get a different position-either stock (which, by the way, i love when i can walk around the store freely and put stuff up), customer loader (which isn't bad, i'm used to bringing in carts)- or look at the library and see if they're hiring.

thanks everyone for the replies