Trying to stay occupied…
Posted by Tino Evangelou on June 30, 2007
Yesterday I was remarkably busy, at least by my own standards. In the afternoon I went over to my neighbor’s house and volunteered to do some tech support on their computer for free (they ended up giving me $20 and a couple of slices of pizza). Long story short, it was loaded with spyware, malware, and viruses, it took two and a half hours to remove, and I want to kick anyone who writes that crap squarely in the nuts. The computer was basically inoperable before I cleaned all the junk out.
Oh, and you can add my neighbors to the list of employers that pay better than Sears does. I even got free pizza! What do I get from Sears? A carbon copy of the same letter I got last week, threatening to fire me. I thought I had that taken care of, but apparently not. Ha HA!
As far as future jobs go, I’ve come to the conclusion that short of being General Manager of the New York Mets I’m not sure there’s really anything I could do and love every day for the rest of my life. That said, I want to do something I believe in, and by that I don’t mean “Well we have to meet these quarterly sales projections so the CEO can finish paying off that loan on his helicopter”. No. Fuck that shit. It’s reprehensible that human beings are inexorably tied to the wealth they accumulate, and even more so that this is often viewed as a measure of success above that person’s own happiness. I want to have a good time. Will I? That’s to be determined, but I’ll be damned if I don’t try. I’m not going to drop dead doing something I detest just because it pays. What good is money if you’re miserable and have no time for the important things in your life?
Perhaps I’m trying to justify to myself why I’m not going to make a lot of money because, let’s face it, it’s not like history and public policy are the areas where the big money is. And perhaps it’s arrogant of me to presume that my thoughts make more sense than others, or that I think too many people are just shallow, greedy, and superficial. I mean really, watch those rich morons on “My Super Sweet 16″ and try to tell me they have a soul. Anyway, whatever the case really is, this is simply how I’m choosing to view things right now. It makes sense to me.
I really couldn’t tell you what brought on this stream of thought but it’s not something new to me. I found working retail completely phony and pointless and I decided that I cannot and will not do anything like it ever again. I hated it on pretty much every level.
I also took 80 or so swings at the batting cages yesterday. This is something I would like to do every day but cannot. If I ever do become wealthy somehow, I’m putting a pitching machine in my backyard and hitting every day until my hands become giant blisters. In the meantime, here are some of my plans for my limitless free time as a temporarily unemployed bum:
- More reading.
- Finish watching Scrubs, start watching The Office.
- Beat as many video games as I can.
- Go out on the town with this shirt.
I kind of ran out of ideas after that. Anyone else have suggestions? Fuck it, I’m going to go watch the Mets game.
