Horrible news fer me, yay

Graduate Thinker Joined: Mar 09, 2006 Posts: 827

well yeah. so i moved into an apartment far away from family cuz i got a new job. they seemed to be really excited to hire me too. they understood it would be a learning curve for me with radio frequency. the owner seemed to always say 'yea you're getting it. you'll be out doing calls in no time'. but his son never seemed to be satisfied or happy with me and never really gave me a second chance to explain myself if i had trouble underestanding something. and he never gave me actual jobs, just stuff to read. and well, he fired me today. said i wasnt learning RF fast enough, and by now they have techs out in the field. what i had found out though from other people who work there (receptionists) is they've been through 5 techs in the last month and a half before me. you'd think they'd realize they're doing something wrong. but, now it looks like i need to find a job asap or move back and continue working at walmart.. or get another fucking degree or something

Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:04 am

SOmething like that happened to me too once. Working in a factory run by two brothers, the one brother encouraging more accuracy on my part, only to get fired by the other brother later on for focussing on accuracy too much.

The problem in this world is I think that people aren't properly taught how to reason, which results in a whole lot of unreasonable shits out there, who can't properly communicate among each other.

Graduate Thinker Joined: Mar 09, 2006 Posts: 827

yea that does sound pretty similiar... i'm just so scared right now whats going to happen when i pay this next month's rent. i have no money then after that. it's gonna be hard.the ony option i'm gonna have is just work at walmart again. and i'm fucking pissed bout that. i'll never be able to use my degree.

Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:45 am

I know how you feel. I like telling this story:

Once many moons ago when I was a sweet innocent agnostic, I worked very hard to become an animator. I succeeded. There is this perception that comes and goes, that the animation industry is booming. Well it only boomed once. I missed that boom but I didn't care, it still seamed there was opportunity, and for a time there was.

I found myself doing FX assistance on a straight to video feature by a very popular studio which shall remain unnamed. I was sought after for my work within the FX department. I got a very personalised letter of reference from a world famous FX director. I was a popular guy.

Then... BANG. The film happened to suck . In fact they KNEW it would suck, but the financing was already in place and much was spent before any of the supposed geniuses at the top had any idea how horrible the script was.

So that facility was dissolved. It would have been anyway, but there would be no self sustained industry to absorb the staff. In short my mentors could not even find work. Some of them couldn't even find work in other city's. What was happening all over the place to different studios was that the particular wave of financing that had come in the last moments of the boom had now finaly hit the rocky shores of reality.
Everywhere producers were discovering that if you make a crappy show, it wont make money, and of course they were blaming everything under the sun except themselves for this.

I had studied for years, drawn until my fingers bled, so that a bunch of over paid retards with nearly unlimited resources could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory... After hustling for a couple months, seeing mentors take teaching jobs, and studios change addresses over and over, I finaly gave up.

... And even more fun... The Brewery I work at is going out of business next month!

At least I learned how to brew... I 'll just add that to my list of rare and esoteric skills which one would THINK are in high demand, but they are in fact NOT.

So cheer up Fatty. It can only get better! Laughing

Graduate Thinker Joined: Mar 09, 2006 Posts: 827

i dont know if they can get better for me. i dont know if can draw unemployment. never done it, but i think i'll be forced too... so if i cant, bye bye everything that i can pick up cuz i'll have to ebay it.
=(

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:40 am

That's a rough place to be in fatty. Can't blame you for bein bummed out and maybe even a bit pissed off. I'm sure you'll find something to pay the bills in the mean time.

In the long run I think a man has to know what his mission in life is. What's your purpose fatty? What do you have to see done before you die?

Once you find out what your purpose is, EVERYTHING CHANGES. Your personality changes, your clothes change, your diet changes, your relationships change. EVERYTHING becomes filled with the meaning of your life and everything becomes an expression of it.

Without a purpose, we float from place to place and job to job. Nothing is profound, everything has a sort of grey normalcy, and our life is inherently meaningless.

"The unemamined life is not worth living." - Plato

Graduate Thinker Joined: Mar 09, 2006 Posts: 827

yea it did change a lot for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61VXSZrAdQ4&feature=PlayList&p=4F5EFC4A2CC2BBC5&index=0

the value of everything changed me, really. but there's still no cosmic purpose. everything has a value for me now and still no real reason to assume a cosmic 'purpose'.

i did get my 'old job' back at a one hour photo, but luckily for me, this area pays almost a dollar more then my old one hour photo job paid. so i'm content with it.

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:31 am

fattychunks wrote:

yea it did change a lot for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61VXSZrAdQ4&feature=PlayList&p=4F5EFC4A2CC2BBC5&index=0

the value of everything changed me, really. but there's still no cosmic purpose. everything has a value for me now and still no real reason to assume a cosmic 'purpose'.

I wasn't refering to a "cosmic" purpose. I was refering to a purpose that you give yourself in order to give your life meaning. We as men need meaning to guide or lives or else we can never reach a place of fulfillment and eventually enjoy a peaceful death. Men who have no purpose die a death full of bitterness and regret.

I'd be willing to bet that if you find any man who is happy, successful and fulfilled what his purpose or mission in life is; he'll give you an answer in about a heartbeat.

fattychunks wrote:

i did get my 'old job' back at a one hour photo, but luckily for me, this area pays almost a dollar more then my old one hour photo job paid. so i'm content with it.

Awesome news! :partyman:

Graduate Thinker Joined: Mar 09, 2006 Posts: 827

"I was refering to a purpose that you give yourself in order to give your life meaning."

i figured, but yea thats why i linked to that video casta made, cuz i made a response to this situation of my life.

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:57 am

It's an interesting video. For me it really underscored how most people don't know what their meaning is. Most people really fumbled through the question. Most highly successful (depending on how you define that), happy and fulfilled people don't have to think about it. That should tell us something about the importance of knowing our purpose.


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