What are you doing anyways?

[Laura]

Well most of you know I work but what are you guys doing? Still in high school? In college/university? If yes, what are you studying? Or are you working? Oh yes, you could be going to school and working!

Like I said, I work. I'm an administrative assistant at the Williamson Group. Just for information, we work with benefits, insurance, and things of the like. I want a new job though.

[fightingirishman]

I'm in first year university at the University of Winnipeg. I'm accepted into a joint program to study Creative Communications (broadcasting, journalism and that) to start in 2007. But this year I'm taking politics, calculus, Western Canadian History, english and academic writing, and first term I took linear algebra. Good times. I hope to get into journalism or broadcasting, but if it doesn't work, I'm looking at teaching (major in math, minor in history).

[Laura]

I was going to go for teaching vocal music. I have to learn piano though and I only know the basics and I'm impatient.

[indridcold]

I just started work, but you all read the blog.

[fightingirishman]

Of course.

[indridcold]

First week of work.

I survived.

Lost my foot and four of my friends, but I made it out!

[Laura]

What do you mean by that?

[indridcold]

My trainer eats people.

[Laura]

Ah I see. I hate being trained ... I mean some stuff may actually be somewhat difficult and lengthy to learn but they usually treat you like a moron the whole time.

[Absinthe]

[glow=black,2,300] Well, I suppose I'm rather boring, but I'm a senior in high school....less than half a year to freedom! whoo! Next year, I will be a nursing major at SUNY Brockport, and working at whatever crap-hole job will pay me enough to at least somewhat cover my debts. Should be some good times.....[/glow]

[Sharon]

I'm a senior here as well... no job at the moment. I'm planning on going to a local community college. Probably gonna do the workstudy program on campus when i get there. at the moment i'm just trying to keep up with everything i need to do to graduate. not doing too bad there but still, lots of work. i can't wait till college.

[fightingirishman]

Hope it all works out well for all you folk .

[Sharon]

hm... yeah I never did end up with the "workstudy" program. I am working and studying but mostly working.

Full-time work and part-time study, at the moment I'm taking the basic classes but I think I'm headed towards the Business direction. The idea of owning my own business some day really appeals to me. I love my job - still working at the same place I started after high school.

My title is "Marketing Administrator" I handle most of the background things... business development (maintaining the database, filing, reporting stats, creating/managing spreadsheets, etc...) I always knew that I'd probably end up at an office job - I've no problem working on a computer all day.

[Absinthe]

Well, I am a student at Brockport.....and I do work at the same time. Although, the money I make from my two - count them - two jobs doesn't nearly cover my cost of attendance. I'm a second year student. I'm no longer a nursing major - that lasted for about a semester and a half - I'm now an English major with a concentration in Literature. I might be taking on a Theater minor next semester - still thinking on that. At the beginning of the semester I had 3 jobs - one was only a temporary position though, but I will be doing it again next year as well.

I'm either working or in class pretty much all day every day. As a matter of fact, I just got out of work at the video store and have to go back to said job at 9am - it pretty much sucks. But at the same time, it's good, because I was recently promoted to a managing position and I've only been at the job for about 4 1/2 months. So that means pay raise....yay! I also work on campus in the student union....we have a food court set-up, kind of like you'd see in a mall, called Union Square. That's where I work three days a week. Then the video store is 3 other days a week, so my only day off from work is Thursday, but I still have to go to class, so it isn't much of a day off.

So, basically that's why I'm on in little bursts, but don't post or reply too often lately. Okay, I'm going to stop now. I've realized that I'm babbling about things no one really cares about. So if anyone actually did read through this, kudos to you. If you've read through it, respond with "Thar she blows".....don't know why, but it seems like a fin idea, no? Probably no. Whatever, I'm done.

[Cullen]

I am a student at the Univesity of North Dakota, but plan on transferring to the University of Minnesota next fall. I want to major in architecture, I spend my nights alone, usually infront of the TV my roommate brought from home. I am currently watching the second disc of the third season of the office and it's three AM. I get bored easily with classes and draw most of my inspiration for things during my immense states of bordem.

I have class basically everyday, yet I often skip chem. I don't post replies much because i can be brutally honest and am often mean sounding even if I'm trying to complement things. My works are often sporadic and could use much editing and review. Thats why most of them never even leave the pages of my calc notebook.

[fightingirishman]

Well, I'm in my first year in the Creative Communications program at Red River College, after two years at the University of Winnipeg (in the joint program). There are four majors in the program: public relations, advertising, journalism and broadcast. I was thinking journalism when I came in, but I'm really not sure at this point. We were shown that most things interconnect, so even if I major in one aspect, it certainly doesn't rule out getting work in any of the other four. We've made some talk shows in TV broadcast, and are starting game shows tomorrow, so if those get up on YouTube, I'll pass them along. For work, I've been working in the marketing department for Boston Pizza (a large chain up here) as a mascot and just a general gofer haha. My band's played some shows recently, and have some more coming up, so yeah, it's been all good.

And Cullen, don't worry about hurting someone's feelings when you post. I want honesty, so however it manifests itself is better than not getting any at all, so don't worry about being honest, at least with me.

[Only Me]

Well, I did the college thing for too long before I asked my self what I was doing... less than a year to go and I woulda been a graduate. Instead I chose the road less travelled. Or should I say more travelled? I am an over-the-road truck driver. Its been fun, though I get bored at times.
I quit for 4 months this summer after learning I was pregnant. I was put onto bed rest from day one and there I stayed until it was unbearable. I began working a min wage, min work, job in a fitting room at a discount clothing store, until my doc told me that its either my job or my baby but I couldn't have both. Well, the doc was somewhat wrong. Apparently I couldn't have my job or my baby, I lost the baby and here I am, on the road again... Its been just over a week and I am loving it but missing home. I am slowly realizing that I wasn't ready to be back on the road and all alone yet. Good news, being depressed and alone with my thoughts has opened up my ability to write things down again. Maybe some of it will turn out to be good enough to post... I posted one of the poems I have written, not one of the better ones. It has been so very long since I have written anything, its rather pathetic, and it shows in my recent work. ha ha.

[Laura]

DAMNIT I am still working at the Williamson Group. Ugh when will it end?

[Isabela]

Well I'm still in high school, a senior ready to graduate. What am I going to do after high school you ask, well it really doesn't matter to me. College sounds great and all but I really don't think it's for me, but if it comes my way then I might try it. I'm not much of a thinker for the future, more like the 'wait and see what happens' type. I'd rather live it up now, and deal with everything else later. It's like, if I die now, will I die happy? And to be honest school doesn't make me happy.

[Chrono]

Currently, I am a senior in high school. Thanks to the PSEO program, I was able to get out of my high school classes and take all college ones for free. I just finished my first semester, and enjoyed it a lot more than high school. A lot more freedom. I took two classes at a community college: Speech (Needed to get one more English class for graduation requirements due to my high school switching back and forth between Trimester and Semester systems), and Chemistry (A general out of the way for college). Then, I took Japanese at the University of Minnesota, which was probably my funnest and most enjoyable class. Next semester I will be taking Calculus and Psychology at the community college, and I will be continuing Japanese at the University of Minnesota.

I currently don't have a job, but my parents want me to find one in the summer. I truthfully do not have a problem with working it is just that if I do work I want to enjoy it. I do not to do one of the countless mindless guinea pig jobs available. I want to find a job with a purpose, with meaning, or at least one that I can like and enjoy doing.

As for the future, I am hoping to get into the University of Minnesota next year. I will have almost two years of college completed by the time I am out of high school, so I should be able to pace myself pretty well in college. I plan on double majoring in Japanese and then another undecided category. The reason I wish to major in Japanese is that I really like a lot of aspects of their culture, and I think it would be a lot of fun to be able to live over there for a little while. There is one program at the University of Minnesota which really interests me. It allows people with enough years of Japanese to go over to Japan and teach English and get payed to do it. I think that would be a wonderful job to have. I would be able to live in Japan for some time and sightsee, while at the same time I would have a job secured for myself. As for my undecided major, I am considering majoring in some aspect of art, but there are still many other field of studies which I wish to look into.

I suppose the overall theme of this is that no matter what I end up doing in the future, I want it to be something I enjoy.

[The Brutal Immortal]

I am a freshman in high school, and i already work...

we have a TOPS program down here, where if your GPA is high enough you can get a four year scholarship to any public satate shool... and it looks liek i wont get it... all my teachers are idiots who dont give me the percent i earned... so this first semester im gonna have liek a 1.5... the stupid freakin teachers didnt calculate the finals percent in right... i hate them... sory, i was ranting...

anyways, i work for my uncle... he owns a warehouse and i pretty much am the warehouse manager... even though im 14... hehe its pretty kool... im not complainin... i liek it

[thecrazybeautiful]

It seems I never posted in this thread...

So I was in, what, 8th grade when I joined here? I'm a high school sophomore now. It's quite possibly my worst year of school... Ever... But, I'm hoping that will change.

[Absinthe]

Well, I'm down to only one job. Last semester ended very badly. It was, in some ways, a kick in the face from reality, bringing about a realization that my life needs a complete overhaul. The realization of the fact was the easy part - I've been rather pathetic thus far on the actual action bit. But anyhow - I now work only two to three days a week and I am no longer involved in four Improvisational theater troupes. Unfortuntely, I had to cut that part of my life completely out, because I don't have the time to commit to it as well as schoolwork, which is a damn shame, becuase I adore improvising. Hopefully things will be better here one out but it seems every time I've gone with optimism, reality has seen fit to pulverize it.

[nina]

I'm also a Senior. '08!!! I have already applied to three colleges that I would like to go to, Savannah College of Art and Design, Maryland Institute College of Art, and California College of Art. My dream is to become an animator for a big company such as Disney, Pixar, or Dreamworks. I'm not sure if I want to go into 3D animation or traditional 2D animaition. Maybe a little of both. But these colleges each have majors in animations so that's why I picked them. The colleges are very expensive so I'm hoping that I can get some scholarships.