awesome!

i bet you never thought you might see a post here again!

well, you were wrong....

anyway, about 2 months have gone by since the last post here, during which time i have:

* seen my first job come to an end
* gone to california for xmas
* come back to chicago
* enjoyed one-and-a-half months of blissful nonparticipation in the labor force. (i would say "unemployment," but as all good econ majors would know, you have to be actually looking for a job to be counted as unemployed. which i was not.)
* decided that eventually my savings might run out and i should probably find another job.
* found another job. this job sucks. this is probably one of the boringest jobs conceivable, from a theoretical standpoint. follow this line of reasoning:

Q. What are some of the boringest places in the world?
A. Well, social security offices, libraries, computer parts warehouses, that kind of thing.

Q. OK, following up on that, which type of library would be the most boring?
A. Probably a university library where everyone comes for the purpose of having a quiet boring place to concentrate on their studies.

Q. Well, what part of the library might be the most boring place to work?
A. Probably the budget and personnel office, I mean, they don't even have anything to do with the books which are really the only interesting thing in the library anyway.

Q. And of all the jobs in the budget and personnel office, which might be the most dull?
A. Probably some kind of stupid lower-level job where you would just type thing, enter the data from time cards, file forms and paperwork, make photocopies, and do other random and boring shit.

Q. Wow! that describes my job perfectly! I must have the most boring job of all!
A. I guess you must!

seriously, if my office didn't have windows in it, i might have never come back after the first day's lunch break. and i haven't even mentioned that:

1) one of my two supervisors is an eastern european robot, and not a very nice one at that (the other supervisor is fine, which is the other reason i didn't leave after the first day.)
2) i work directly beneath a blackboard that, each day, has a new "Quote of the Day" written on it.
3) the distance separating my desk from eastern european robot's desk is less than 20 feet. nevertheless, he will frequently call my phone rather than getting up to ask me something.
4) everyone who works in the library is boring. i guess that should be obvious.

so yeah, the job sucks, and i'm not sure what i should do about it. this was the first job i applied to, and i got it right away, so i hadn't put in any other applications. and it's three blocks from my house. and i can easily live on $12.59 an hour. and there's a good chance that we will be leaving chicago in 5 months or so. my plan right now is, i guess, to stick it out as long as i can, and try to save up some money in the meantime so i can quit earlier. my mom said i should work there and continue to apply for other jobs, but i don't know...i would feel bad taking a "real" job knowing that i would be quitting so soon. and it's really very nice not having to commute, and walking home for lunch every day. (i know, i'm so ambitious!) am i a failure if i stay at such a crappy job?? let me know what you think, reader(s)...