I honestly cannot. It flew by and frankly, I’m not ready to move on. I don’t want to leave Boulder and more importantly, I don’t want to move home. But…what can you do?
So this post is going to be kind of a hijack from IamPetrie’s latest post, but since summer is a pertinent issue, I’m okay with idea stealing/not being original right now. Let’s face the facts: I’m three finals and five days away from moving out of Sewall and into the H Ranch. I’ve got bills to pay, fun to be had and…no money.
Really, I’m not exaggerating. Like I honestly can’t wait for people to ask me to drive somewhere and I’ll be like, “I would love to, but turns out I’ve got no money to pay for gas.” Or more like, “Lets go grab dinner and a movie.” And I’ll be like, “You may or may not know that those activities are for rich people, unlike me.”
It’s going to be a good time. I can already tell. This is, of course the option if I do not get a job. If this really and truly ends up being the reality of my situation, this is my life plan for the summer:
Ride my bike to the East Ridge pool daily and spend all day there, just baking in the sun. Then I’ll come home at night (via bike of course, because I will have zero money for gas) and see if anyone is doing something cool in suburbia (the chances are slim, but with the kind of people I hang out with, you just never know what kind of shenanigans they’ll be up to) and do that for a bit before going to bed. And repeat. Daily. Maybe I’ll take to panhandling when the pool gets boring and we’ll find out for reals if the cops actually enforce the panhandling law in Highlands Ranch. I’ll keep you posted. I already have a corner in mind.
Sounds lovely, right? My job search is getting incredibly frustrating and I really just need a job. I have applied to probably about 15 places and all of them have failed to contact me. It’s upsetting and for the first time in my life, I honestly have no idea how I’m going to get shit done. I’m used to having a plan, knowing what’s going to happen etc and right now, I’ve got nothing. Not even a fall back. FML, right?
So tomorrow (let’s get motivated!) I’m going to call my one option that could be a fall back job in Denver working for my friend’s parents (it’s not looking good however) and I’m also going to beg housing and dining to hire me as a summer orientation leader eventhough the deadline to apply was exactly two months ago, yesterday. Glad I’ve really got it together in…life. But I have a good feeling about it. I’m REALLY good at singing the fight song and talking to freshmen.
I guess we’ll see the reality of my summer and what will happen in the next couple days/weeks/months. For now, I’m going to remain optimistic and think the happy thought that no matter what, I won’t be in school, won’t be RAing this summer and will get to see people I have missed all semester.
Wish my job search luck, toodles.
Kelsi, I am really sorry to see that you are so stressed out about finding a job this summer but I can totally see why you are. You can always work for the gov. they seem to have trillions of dollars to spend so I’m sure they would hire you. And if all else fails you can hitch-hike your way to chicago and we can go to the inner city and bang on trash cans to earn some extra change. Good luck with the search though. You have my blessing.
THE ECONOMY SUCKS