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16 years ago
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Believe me when I say we have a difficult time ahead of us. But if we are to be prepared for it, we must first shed our fear of it. I stand here, before you now, truthfully unafraid. Why? Because I believe something you do not? No, I stand here without fear because I remember. I remember that I am here not because of the path that lies before me but because of the path that lies behind me. I remember that for 100 years we have fought these machines. I remember that for 100 years they have sent their armies to destroy us, and after a century of war I remember that which matters most... We are still here! Today, let us send a message to that army. TOnight, let us shake this cave. Tonight, let us tremble these halls of earth, steel, and stone, let us be heard from red core to black sky. Tonight, let us make them remember, THIS IS ZION AND WE ARE NOT AFRAID!
UPDATE: I thought it was over between my mom and I with JobCorps. Nuh uh. Apparently she made a meeting with me and them for today, which I refuse to go to. I'm sorry, but I'm not stupid. It has nothing, absolutly nothing for me. I can easily pay off what I owe to the school right now with about two to three months of a paycheck with a good full time job. Like, McDonald's or Gamestop. But no. That's not good enough in my mother's eyes, who has to have me work for the scamming assholes in JobCorps. Well, I am 21, I am planning to move out, and I am not stepping foot in JobCorps again. I am not going to that meeting, I am not going to work for their pay of $25, I am not going to step foot in that office.
Now, I may join the military. Why? Fuck, I get WAY better pay. But, guys, please do not go to Jobcorps. There are too many bad things about it, you don't make good money, and trust me, you won't like it. And be glad you don't have my mom, who thinks JobCorps is a god and it's the best thing in the world. It's not.
So, I think I've been thinking a lot recently about this whole Job Corps thing that my mom brought up. And I have come to a final dicision:
I am not going to do it. At all. You know why? I'll give you several reasons why:
Pretty much, you guys would not be able to hear from me for about 6 months to 2 years, they have NOTHING I am interested in. I mean, seriously? Culinary Arts, Carpentry, PAINTING. Look, I know some people may enjoy this, but there are very little jobs in that field. IN fact, in West Virginia, you make about 15,000$ or less doing carpentry. But wait! If you get accepted into Jobcorps.... No. Just no. I don't think an employer is going to give a damned whether you worked there or not. OH! But they have people who will hire you! But I don't want to work with those people.
I would get cut off from Family, Friends... the outside world. You have no idea how pissy that makes me. I'm getting cut off from the very world they want me to work in.
Another thing: They only pay for one semester of college. So... what the fuck am I supposed to do with the remainder of the college year? Hm? I don't think I want to have to figure out how to pay for my remaining semesters every year. I still owe Fairmont Money. It's not worth it.
They want me to get tests done with people I don't know, doing stuff I don't wanna think about, and it all comes from my pocket. I don't have a job, I don't have money. Does it look liek I have insurance? No. So what makes them think I have hundreds of dollars to get tests done?
BUT IT HAS SO MANY PLUSES....
Bullshit.
I get paid $25 bi weekly to go to school. I'm sorry, but I want more. That's not enough for anything anymore. That's not worth anything to me. I can't buy the basics with that!
Long story short, despite my parents pestering me to work for Jobcorps, I have decided against it. They can live with it. I am 21, I am an adult, and I will no longer take the shit I took from them I once did.
I dislike what they want me to do, I am not going to work for them.
I want a job in the criminal justice field, and you know what?
If I get a job here in Charleston now, save up, work full time, then get a job with Energy Express again this summer, I can have a full year at Fairmont paid. I can live off campus, live in an apartment with a good and dear friend, and pay bills, buy food... you know. THe REAL stuff. The stuff that will teach me about the REAL world without cutting me off from the world, from my friends and family.
If JobCorps is reading this.... well, I hope you understand. I have a lot darker thoughts to say, but I am not going to. It would be pointless. I have a much bigger goal, one that something like that will never teach me. And I WILL reach that goal. I WILL make sure of that. I have not given up, but the stuff you are offering me will not get me there. It will make me part of a plan I do not want to be in.
--
That feels better. I am really really happy to vent that. I truly am. I TRIED discussing it with my mom, and she would not hear it. She wouldn't. It left me feeling a bit upset, because, as a mom, she should listen. She should understand, but she didn't.
In a way it hurts, in a way, I am used to it. If I go against her, then she gets upset, yells at me, and keeps it up until I agree to do it.
Like Monday, I would like to use that day to search for jobs, but you know what? I get to be dragged along to some stupid MLK thing an hour away, in order to 'Volunteer.' I really don't want to. I have been feeling like shit for the past several days, and I refuse to go. I am 21. I am an Adult. I am sorry if she doesn't like it, but her dear old daughter whom she could sign up for whatever, no longer wants to be signed up.
I'm not racist, but I am not going to spend my time doing something stupid like volunteering. Yes, it's good, but when your forced into it, building houses in the dead of January on a Monday that could be used to look for jobs, and you are going to have a fight. She knows that.
I know it sounds kinda retarded, but I assure you it's not. I've just had enough. I'm not gonna be walked upon like I once was. I know my rights as an adult, and I plan on, using it.
I would put my true thoughts on the whole MLK thing here, but that's not going to solve anything. It's not. But, I assure you guys, I AM going out with a fight. Wish me luck.
"iconsapphire_talnoth:
Now, I may join the military. Why? Fuck, I get WAY better pay. But, guys, please do not go to Jobcorps. There are too many bad things about it, you don't make good money, and trust me, you won't like it. And be glad you don't have my mom, who thinks JobCorps is a god and it's the best thing in the world. It's not.
So, I think I've been thinking a lot recently about this whole Job Corps thing that my mom brought up. And I have come to a final dicision:
I am not going to do it. At all. You know why? I'll give you several reasons why:
Pretty much, you guys would not be able to hear from me for about 6 months to 2 years, they have NOTHING I am interested in. I mean, seriously? Culinary Arts, Carpentry, PAINTING. Look, I know some people may enjoy this, but there are very little jobs in that field. IN fact, in West Virginia, you make about 15,000$ or less doing carpentry. But wait! If you get accepted into Jobcorps.... No. Just no. I don't think an employer is going to give a damned whether you worked there or not. OH! But they have people who will hire you! But I don't want to work with those people.
I would get cut off from Family, Friends... the outside world. You have no idea how pissy that makes me. I'm getting cut off from the very world they want me to work in.
Another thing: They only pay for one semester of college. So... what the fuck am I supposed to do with the remainder of the college year? Hm? I don't think I want to have to figure out how to pay for my remaining semesters every year. I still owe Fairmont Money. It's not worth it.
They want me to get tests done with people I don't know, doing stuff I don't wanna think about, and it all comes from my pocket. I don't have a job, I don't have money. Does it look liek I have insurance? No. So what makes them think I have hundreds of dollars to get tests done?
BUT IT HAS SO MANY PLUSES....
Bullshit.
I get paid $25 bi weekly to go to school. I'm sorry, but I want more. That's not enough for anything anymore. That's not worth anything to me. I can't buy the basics with that!
Long story short, despite my parents pestering me to work for Jobcorps, I have decided against it. They can live with it. I am 21, I am an adult, and I will no longer take the shit I took from them I once did.
I dislike what they want me to do, I am not going to work for them.
I want a job in the criminal justice field, and you know what?
If I get a job here in Charleston now, save up, work full time, then get a job with Energy Express again this summer, I can have a full year at Fairmont paid. I can live off campus, live in an apartment with a good and dear friend, and pay bills, buy food... you know. THe REAL stuff. The stuff that will teach me about the REAL world without cutting me off from the world, from my friends and family.
If JobCorps is reading this.... well, I hope you understand. I have a lot darker thoughts to say, but I am not going to. It would be pointless. I have a much bigger goal, one that something like that will never teach me. And I WILL reach that goal. I WILL make sure of that. I have not given up, but the stuff you are offering me will not get me there. It will make me part of a plan I do not want to be in.
--
That feels better. I am really really happy to vent that. I truly am. I TRIED discussing it with my mom, and she would not hear it. She wouldn't. It left me feeling a bit upset, because, as a mom, she should listen. She should understand, but she didn't.
In a way it hurts, in a way, I am used to it. If I go against her, then she gets upset, yells at me, and keeps it up until I agree to do it.
Like Monday, I would like to use that day to search for jobs, but you know what? I get to be dragged along to some stupid MLK thing an hour away, in order to 'Volunteer.' I really don't want to. I have been feeling like shit for the past several days, and I refuse to go. I am 21. I am an Adult. I am sorry if she doesn't like it, but her dear old daughter whom she could sign up for whatever, no longer wants to be signed up.
I'm not racist, but I am not going to spend my time doing something stupid like volunteering. Yes, it's good, but when your forced into it, building houses in the dead of January on a Monday that could be used to look for jobs, and you are going to have a fight. She knows that.
I know it sounds kinda retarded, but I assure you it's not. I've just had enough. I'm not gonna be walked upon like I once was. I know my rights as an adult, and I plan on, using it.
I would put my true thoughts on the whole MLK thing here, but that's not going to solve anything. It's not. But, I assure you guys, I AM going out with a fight. Wish me luck.
"iconsapphire_talnoth:
