Mike Needs a Life Blog Reposts – Part 23

June 29, 2009
Another Friday, let’s see… what happened this week.

Monday I called the dude back from Workforce. I think he remembered me, but I’m not entirely certain. Anyways, I set up another meeting for tuesday..

I spent the remainder of the day putzing around the apartment, and surfing job sites on the web. There are a LOT of service industry and healthcare jobs down here, and very few others. Of course I knew this going in so I’m not surprised. There are also quite a few IT positions, I get the impression they have a hard time keeping competent (and sober) professionals in Key West. I’ve seriously considered getting certified in IT and chasing those jobs, but I’m afraid that while I’m certain I could do the work easily, I’d really start to feel like I sold out to the man again. I mean, part of the dream was to go LIVE the dream, not work for the man, and live a stress and bullshit-free life. Of course, all jobs come with bullshit.. so…. quandary. I continue to coast..

Tuesday I went to see the guy at Workforce, and lo and behold, he was there this time! We chit chatted about my experience and such, blah blah blah.. in the end what he told me in his professional opinion was that I should start my own business. Sigh. Thanks buddy.

Wednesday I dropped Christina off at work and took the car to Sears to have a nail removed from the tire and the hole patched. I got there at 8:01, the doors had just opened and there were no cars in the bays, and only two people in front of me in line. This should be quick! I thought to myself. Hmph.

Two and a half hours later I wander out of the waiting room thinking that if they havent even moved the car into the service bays yet I was gonna just leave, but the car was in a different spot.. WTF. I had to hunt down someone to ask if the car was ready or not.. I assumed that since they had moved it, it was finished. Yes in fact it was finished the guy told me with a smile.. I paid and walked out wondering how goddamned long it had been done while I sat there killing my brain with Regis and Kathy Lee. Customer service with a smile.

Wednesday night Christina drove to Miami for two more days of training. I watched movies and went to bed early.

Thursday it rained all day, I spent a couple hours fighting with our bubblejet printer to try to get it working again. The black printer cartridge had gone tits up. I rode my bike down to CVS to see if they had some, nope, walgreens on duval, nope.. ok, small town living has its disadvantages. There is an Office Max, but it’s up on Stock Island and I wasnt about to ride my bike up there in the rain for a freakin printer cartridge.. so back home. Was it time to start drinking yet? 12:30… sure why not.

Drink in hand, I cruised the job postings for the day.. I found an interesting opening at the City of Key West for a helpdesk person.. now, I’m pretty competent with computers, and as I said, am willing to go into IT if I have to to get a decent job, but helpdesk… yikes. Dealing with people, and on top of that, government people.. I just don’t know if I’m willing to sacrifice every bit of my happiness for a job.. I’m still considering this one.

So here it is Friday, Christina will be back this evening. I think I’m going to hop on my bike and cruise around, I cant stand to spend another day cooped up in this apartment. It’s hard to truly enjoy yourself out and about when you feel like you should be glued to the computer waiting for someone to post a job, but I think I’ve come to the point where it’s either force myself to go out and enjoy, or spiral into self loathing and depression.. and that’s just not acceptible in the Keys!