Tomorrow I make the biggest decision of my life

mookeywrench

he'll need a tin can or something or else he'll have no container for the noodles

SPEEDY MCCREADY

mookeywrench wrote:

he'll need a tin can or something or else he'll have no container for the noodles

good point....

he will also need a spoon.....

but wait....

Where the fuck is he going to get the water to cook the ramen noodles????

mookeywrench

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

mookeywrench wrote:

he'll need a tin can or something or else he'll have no container for the noodles

good point....

he will also need a spoon.....

but wait....

Where the fuck is he going to get the water to cook the ramen noodles????

it rains a lot in Seattle

SPEEDY MCCREADY

Maybe Ed and Sean Penn can help you out.....Ya never know...

But....They may be busy WORKING and making millions of fucking dollars......

So that might not be a good idea to contact them.

aNiMaL

Boohoo...so you're unhappy. Yes, only you can make yourself happy...but only if your responsibilities can be maintained.

Look, if you live with your folks, quit. But if you are paying rent and bills and stuff, then you better have a job lined up before quitting. Being unhappy is no reason to just quit a job with no immediate alternative plan.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

So today is the big day!!!!!!

You may go from a nice job, and a nice apartment.

To living in a cardboard box, eating ramen noodles, and panhandling!!!!!

All for a couple of Pearl Jam shows in Seattle.......

And you can deny that these Pearl Jam shows, are not the main reason for you to quit your job and move....
And you can call us all illiterate.....
And you can say we are not actually reading your posts.....

But the FACT is.....You are going to quit your job so you can go to a couple of Pearl Jam shows.....

Byrnzie

Phone in sick.

Byrnzie

aNiMaL wrote:

But if you are paying rent and bills and stuff, then you better have a job lined up before quitting. Being unhappy is no reason to just quit a job with no immediate alternative plan.

Do you not have welfare checks in the U.S? If he can't find a job straight away then he can simply claim welfare to see him through until he does.
And he works in a supermarket right now. How many other retail jobs are there available? Must be hundreds. Getting a job in retail isn't difficult, even in during this current period.
I walked out on a job before just so I could go to the pub and celebrate a friends birthday. It was a great move. I had a great night out and didn't regret it one bit the next day. Walking out on jobs that suck feels great. It feels liberating. If you walk out of one crappy job there's always another crappy job just around the corner. A couple of Pearl Jam shows are something he'll never forget. Crappy jobs are there for a reason - so that you can walk out of them to do more important things if and when they arise, and not have to give a shit about the consequences.

If the supermarket you're at now hired you a few months ago, then the supermarket around the corner will hire you next month for the exact same reasons.

blackredyellow

musicismylife78 wrote:

But I also feel like, and wonder, what would Ed say? Chris Mccandless? Sean Penn? Zach Braff? When I would tell them about feeling trapped, and how everyday is the same, and how I am not happy, I wonder what they would say? Would they say, hold off and continue your job, or would they say, just go for it?

Someday soon in your life you will realize that it doesn't matter at all what other people would think or say... Besides a spouse or immediate family, no one else's opinion should matter besides your own, especially some random celebrity who has more money than any of us ever will or some kid who got himself killed because he he was too careless or thought he was too smart to do basic research before traveling.


If you think that quitting your job is the right thing to do, then go for it... Just be prepared to come back to no job, and probably being unable to pay rent soon. But honestly, I saw that you worked in a grocery store... if you are not expecting to find another job making much money, then it shouldn't be too hard... now that kids are going back to college/school, a lot of hourly retail/food industry jobs are hiring to make up for the lost workforce.

Horos

Wondering about the big decision.

I live in the same area as the OP and believe me fast food jobs are even hard to come by. I manage a fast food place and in the last year I've hired 2 people out of 100s of applicants.

Seems to me the OP really made his decision when he pre-ordered the tix. He must have known then that he would be unable to get the time off.

Good luck to the OP. I have been homeless before and believe me it's no treat.

MayDay10

Seattle is a pretty expensive place to live, isnt it?

You should not hurry up and quit. It is fine to realize you want out of a situation... but to truly be free in this society, you need to be free of debt and have a good (not a lot necessarily, just dependable and to support your life) cash flow... and enjoy what you do for a living.

Think of what you would like to do for work from now on. Then plan how you get into that path, whether its more schooling, acquiring a job somewhere, etc.

Then you make decisions and systematically execute your plan, focus and work your hardest/do your best. You will live a happy life.


This day and age you have to think things out. Its not wise to go willingly from employed to unknown.

aNiMaL

Byrnzie wrote:

aNiMaL wrote:

But if you are paying rent and bills and stuff, then you better have a job lined up before quitting. Being unhappy is no reason to just quit a job with no immediate alternative plan.

Do you not have welfare checks in the U.S? If he can't find a job straight away then he can simply claim welfare to see him through until he does.
And he works in a supermarket right now. How many other retail jobs are there available? Must be hundreds. Getting a job in retail isn't difficult, even in during this current period.
I walked out on a job before just so I could go to the pub and celebrate a friends birthday. It was a great move. I had a great night out and didn't regret it one bit the next day. Walking out on jobs that suck feels great. It feels liberating. If you walk out of one crappy job there's always another crappy job just around the corner. A couple of Pearl Jam shows are something he'll never forget. Crappy jobs are there for a reason - so that you can walk out of them to do more important things if and when they arise, and not have to give a shit about the consequences.

If the supermarket you're at now hired you a few months ago, then the supermarket around the corner will hire you next month for the exact same reasons.

I will not encourage him as a plan to get on welfare. I don't want to pay for his narcissistic ass. If it is so easy for him to get another job,then he should go get that other job BEFORE he quits this job. Would if the next job wants to talk to his former employer and they tell them that he walked off the job and they wouldn't hire him back? That could make it more difficult to get that next job.

LOV2ROCK

You could steal all of pjtradekings posters and FLIP them on ebay,via free internet access at the library.
I'm sure SPEEDY would agree,right? :shock:

Byrnzie

aNiMaL wrote:

I will not encourage him as a plan to get on welfare. I don't want to pay for his narcissistic ass. If it is so easy for him to get another job,then he should go get that other job BEFORE he quits this job. Would if the next job wants to talk to his former employer and they tell them that he walked off the job and they wouldn't hire him back? That could make it more difficult to get that next job.

You think you'll end up paying more in taxes if he does this? Or you think you get to pay less everytime someone out there gets a job? Errm, nope. You should be more concerned everytime you see an Exocet missile being launched by your government at some defenseless brown people - do you know how much those things cost?

Anyway, sometimes in life you have to take a chance. It's called livin'. And taking chances once in a while is character building. And he's young enough to be able to take chances. Shit, if he doesn't start livin' now then he never will.

What's the worst that can happen? If he ends up losing his apartment then he can move in with a friend. If his friends don't rise to the occasion to help him out then he can move back in with his folks for a while. Big deal. Too many people live in fear. I say fuck it! Quit the crappy job and enjoy yourself.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

Byrnzie wrote:

aNiMaL wrote:

I will not encourage him as a plan to get on welfare. I don't want to pay for his narcissistic ass. If it is so easy for him to get another job,then he should go get that other job BEFORE he quits this job. Would if the next job wants to talk to his former employer and they tell them that he walked off the job and they wouldn't hire him back? That could make it more difficult to get that next job.

You think you'll end up paying more in taxes if he does this? Or you think you get to pay less everytime someone out there gets a job? Errm, nope. You should be more concerned everytime you see an Exocet missile being launched by your government at some defenseless brown people - do you know how much those things cost?

Anyway, sometimes in life you have to take a chance. It's called livin'. And taking chances once in a while is character building. And he's young enough to be able to take chances. Shit, if he doesn't start livin' now then he never will.

What's the worst that can happen? If he ends up losing his apartment then he can move in with a friend. If his friends don't rise to the occasion to help him out then he can move back in with his folks for a while. Big deal. Too many people live in fear. I say fuck it! Quit the crappy job and enjoy yourself.

Every suggestion you have come up with involves this guy living off others.

Collect Welfare
Mooch off his friends
Mooch off his family

Why not tell this guy to act like a responsible adult?

MayDay10

the worst thing that can happen is he gets into an accident god forbid and just quit a job with benefits.




it is assinine to base this decision or rush into it due to a Pearl Jam concert.

Byrnzie

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

Every suggestion you have come up with involves this guy living off others.

Collect Welfare
Mooch off his friends
Mooch off his family

Why not tell this guy to act like a responsible adult?

You make it sound like helping your friends and/or family is a bad thing. Is that what they teach you in America? That it's everyone for themselves and fuck everybody else? Personally, if one of my friends hated his job, decided he needed to quit it, and needed to crash at my place for a month, or a few months until he sorted out a place of his own then I wouldn't think twice about it. But then maybe my definition of the word 'friend' isn't the same as yours?

Seriously, are Americans all really so fearful and conservative? I thought America was founded on ideals of freedom and adventure? Sounds to me like that's all dead and buried.

'In God We Trust'?.......I wonder if Mary would have found a place to stay in America on the night of 25th December - a friendly innkeeper - or if Jesus would have had to be born on the street instead - perhaps in a trash can, or in a cardboard box?

keeponrockin

Um, may I ask the obvious question..

Why did you buy tickets to a show you weren't sure you could go to?

Byrnzie

keeponrockin wrote:

Um, may I ask the obvious question..

Why did you buy tickets to a show you weren't sure you could go to?

Maybe for the same reason I bought tickets to 3 shows in Europe in 2006 even though I knew I couldn't get the time off work for them. Because some things are worth more than a fucking lousy job.

I phoned in sick and took the week off. I then took the following Wednesday off work after my return in order to fly out to Italy to see Pearl Jam play in Pistoia. It was the best couple of weeks of the whole of 2006 and something I'll never forget.

Ya see, some people choose to put life before work. A scary concept for many people in this day and age, but it's true. I repeat: some people choose to put life before work. Something to do with the spirit of rock 'n roll - remember that?

catefrances

keeponrockin wrote:

Um, may I ask the obvious question..

Why did you buy tickets to a show you weren't sure you could go to?

oh i do that. i buy the tix first and then make it happen. its a motivator more than anything else cause i couldnt possibly spend money on tix and then not go.