Whelp, I haven't updated for a while, have I? Truth be told, I've had a pretty sucky summer. I graduated from Willamette University in May and since then I've been on the job hunt. But a job, as it would happen any job, continues to elude me. This was all well and good through May. I sold a bunch of stuff I wasn't using. I even parted with some of my more valuable vidja games (my original copy of Final Fantasy VII sold for almost $90 alone!).
That was enough to squeak me through June. By July I was forced to leave my apartment and move into my parents' garage. I kept looking for work as my financial situation continued to deteriorate. I literally have nothing left in my checking account. My credit lines are maxed out and very close to going into default. I'm pretty much boned at this point.
These financial issues are what have kept me from updated the blog lately. I've not been able to afford to go to any shows. I've also settled into something of a depression for the last couple months. I just did not have a good exit strategy for my post college existence. Once the financial aid dried up I was pretty much already at the brink. My graduate school plans did not pan out due, in part, to situation outside my control (professor screwed me over). All my friends from school went back where they came from so there isn't even anyone local to comiserate with...
Right now I'm trying to get my head on strait again. I'm trying to come to terms with the fact that living at home again is going to be a longer term solution than originally planned. My sister Ashley is scheduled to go back to school, this time in Portland, later this month so at the least I'll have the chance to get into the house propper before the weather gets really cold.
This also means I can accept a shittier job than originally envisioned. So if you know of anything in the Salem area, drop me a line. In the meantime I've got a couple projects to distract me from my world crashing in around me. First, I am now thrice and uncle:
Lillian is almost a week old and very adorable. I've also just started a band with my little sister Melanie called Weapons of the Future. We recorded a cover of a song written by one of her friends just today. I played the guitar on the track posted to MySpace. I'm also still planning on delivering that Stereo Salem review I promised.
Hope you all had a better Summer than me! Until next time...
2 comments:
Hey Bradley,
What's shakin' brother? Just as I began to think that only suburban-bound moms were blogging I noticed that an old friend commented on my Mullet blog so I had to drop you a line. I just had to laugh at your post about the woes of being a perpetual on-again, off-again student. I was just talking with daisha about how I haven't made any money since I was 17 working as a bag boy at Albertsons and there is no paycheck in the wings (atleast for a few years). So here I am almost a quarter million dollars in debt but things are good and I'm happy. Hope everything is going good. Let me know what else you're up to next time you get the chance.
Carrie follows a bunch of those mommy blogs and forwarded the Mulletastica 2008 post to me cause she knew I'd get a kick out of it.
Yeah, it's quite tragic really. I was making $10/hr back in 1999 and quite cause I was tired of commuting to Beaverton and spending 1.20/gal on gas. 9 years later with a college degree and that much more work experience I can't even land the part time crap jobs I interview for these days. Sigh...
Thing is, I loved college, once I finally went for it full time. I've been happier and felt better about what I was doing with my life for the last 3 years then ever. So the current plan is to weather the current economic uncertainty in academia if I can swing it. I'm applying for MFA writing programs right now. That would take a couple years, and after that I'd like to go after a Phd in Philosophy which is another 6 years or so. When I emerge in 8 years I'll have two post graduate degrees and with any luck I'll be able to spend the rest of my life on a college campus teaching.
I just need to make it through this year, though. That's the trick.
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