The Gods of "Cool" Work Places Smile Upon Me

[dreiser]

So all who read my piddling ramblings know that Barnes & Noble didn't make me full time. Or that they put me on a fucking waiting list to see how I match up against other people they hired who want to work full time. Becoming vexed at this deception I start sending out my resume mightily to various retail, customer service, and otherwise jobs because I need fucking full time money, right?

One thing I'm happy about is this week I got contacted by St. Louis Courts and Children's Services and I'm going to be doing my internship with them for my Paralegal certification for Sanford Brown. I've already talked to my boss there and she's super fucking cool and it looks like it will be a fun experience and not at all boring with me just fucking filing papers and doing brain dead stuff. I think I'm actually going to be spending a ton of time with the kids there. I'm rather excited about that. The woman was strangely impressed with me and she started asking me if I'm considering going to UMSL, where she went to college, to get a BSW for Social Work because I gave her my little resume of volunteer work I've done over the years. I told her I wasn't thinking about it but asked her why she inquired and she was like, "With your experience and the paralegal certification you could get work really easily with BSW."

Maybe I'll look into it. Who knows, right? We'll see how this experience goes. It is an option because I'm one of those people who perversely enjoys going to school perpetually. I mean, my gf is a graduate student who is aiming to remain in academics by becoming a staff member at her university after graduation. Which I totally think will happen since Michi is hella smart.

Anyway! Today my fruitless job hunt got so much better. I actually called Pat to say I was considering the lowest of retail lows applying at Target or K-Mart, but never Walmart because Walmart is the product of Satan and everyone needs to watch Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices documentary which reveals their many evils, because I'm just not hearing back from anywhere I applied. Then I'm sitting in class and oh yes, the gods of "cool" jobs smile upon me! Moolah Theatre is hiring and they want to set up an interview with me and despite what they put on their website they ARE hiring for full time people.

I do the whole "cool" job thing because according to many a tween and otherwise the places I tend to manage for retail and otherwise are considered to be that. Hello Kitty, Gamestop, Suncoast, Lids, Laser Tag, Tower Music, Borders, Fantasy Emporium... the list goes on and on.

But Moolah Theatre! I hope I get this job because it's in the city really close to where I live and it's just such a fucking nice movie theatre. It got voted best in St. Louis by the Riverfront Times. For those curious, here's the website for the super fancy place I could possibly be working at...

http://www.stlouiscinema.com/moolah/

Know what the best thing about Moolah Theatre is? Kids five years old and under can't go into movies PG-13 and up after 5 pm at night. Ahhhh, such joy. I love them. Kids in movie theatres really suck ass.

Comments

[sulkygeek.livejournal.com]

Don't you already have a Bachelors degree though? Skip right over the BSW and get an MSW. Wee! Although, with that scenario why stop there, lol. You can have your paralegal certificate so you can find a part-time MSW programme get that and then just get a law degree! Wee! Haha. And then we can be the parents of Danish with exactly the same kind of fucking jobs and it would take my retarded "I'm the drunken, abusive father and you're the kind-hearted permissive mothers" to an entirely new level.

[dreiser.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I could get into the MSW program with my Bachelor's degree because it really has nothing to do with the field at all. You're so bad though. Just like Michi but evil. lol. She was all hyper encouraging about me going to UMSL. I think she rejoices in the idea of me perpetually in academia with her. Plus if I go to UMSL for BSW that means I'm not moving away to NYC anytime soon. Even if I do go back I doubt we'll be doing the same thing. When it comes to experience vs. intelligence on this kind of work you're reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally far ahead of me. lol. Who knows though. I'm way too open to different ideas that are thrown at me when it comes to employment.

[sulkygeek.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I mean, most of my MSW classmates were Psychology or Sociology majors, so maybe you're right. But I distinctly recall UCLA's requirements for the MSW programme were just that you had a Bachelors and had certain classes like something to do with Human Evolution which you could certainly get at a community college if you needed it. Oh, and Statistics. So I think maybe you could just go for the MSW rather than a BSW. But then again, you might not want the jobs that MSWs go into, so maybe you should get your BSW and use it in a field of work in conjunction with your paralegal certificate. You could do so much! [MSWs get higher pay though!]

You should totally go to UMSL. And I think it's only 3 years, which dude, is relatively soon. So it's not like NYC is out of the question. Go to USML! And make nerdy, unevil professional student Michi all giddy!

And oh please. I think you have way more practical experience than I do. I have a lot of useless specific experience in crap. And that intelligence thing. You made my eyes get all chinky as I squinted at the screen and looked at your comment like it was...liver or something.

More school! More school!

[sulkygeek.livejournal.com]

P.S. That above deleted post was from me because I made a typo. I was crazy insane with excitement at idea of you and me both having MSWs and JDs and being all lawyerly social worky nerdy fan fic Danish parents together. Haha.

More school!