h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I hate and love my job at the same time. Well, it would seem that I mostly hate it, but then I hate myself for hating it because really it's a great, ideal job, and yet sometimes I hate it anyway.

(I work in a library, mostly shelving returned books, and occasionally other odd jobs.)

The reasons I hate it sometimes is that, like any job, it can be frustrating sometimes. It can be annoying when I have to clean up piles of books that people leaving laying around when I have craploads of other books I'm busy with at the moment. It's annoying when I'm trying to put a book in the correct place on the shelf and most of the other books there are out of order somehow. It's annoying in the children's department, where little kids, instead of enjoying a story about Muffin McFuzzybunns and the Rainbow of Lollipops, derive pleasure from pulling books off the shelves, shuffling them up on the shelves, and probably sneezing on them. It's annoying when I'm trying to push the cart between the rows and there is someone standing there and I have to take a detour. It's annoying when I am trying to put a book away and the shelf is entirely packed and I have to rearrange the entire library to fit one book on the shelf. It irks me sometimes when I feel like I'm the only employee who does real, physical work, when everyone else has nice desk jobs where they get to sit down, and even just read when it's not busy.

BUT the reasons this is a great job that make it different from jobs that a lot of people have:

I don't have a manager breathing down my neck at all times to make sure I'm doing to job according to their strict, personal method.

It's a pretty comfortable, layed back, pleasant working enviroment.

In my position at least, I generally don't have to deal with patrons, other than to maybe direct an 80 year old lady to the large print Danielle Steeles.

Most of the people I work with are pretty cool and easy to get along with.

I'm part time, so I only work two-three days a week.

I mean, seriously, why am I complaining? Where else could I work? Taco Bell, where I could be in charge of refilling the condiment trays? This is a great job!

Also, I hate working Thursdays. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

Another annoying thing that sometimes, like last night, I lay awake till like, two AM, thinking about my job. Maybe not necessarily the things I hate, but just in general. I'm trying to sleep!! I'm off until Wendsday! But I can't get it out of my mind. I also resent that I pretty much never leave the house except to go to work. I have no life, no friends, no other errands, appointments, nothing. I'm stuck at my house with my parents, bored, depressed. And you know what's funny? When I'm out of my mind with boredom and depression, I CAN'T WAIT to go back to work! Only four more days away! Finally, I can get out here and do something with myself.

I'm sorry for ranting and unloading my problems like this, but I'm just increasingly neurotic and insecure these days, and I just need to write this down somewhere. You don't have to reply to this by the way, but then hardly anyone ever replies to my journals anyway.

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Awww, Wyatt, I'm sorry to hear this.
You don't seem to be around often these days. Maybe you could write a few more entries when you're bored?

I've tried, but I lose interest after two paragraphs.

Comment in PR and WW (I should do more of that).
Rescue something from the FM or accept a Challenge (maybe I should try that).
Have a look at AWW.

Start saving money to attend a meet.

Make some more YouTube videos.

Get some friends. (And then teach me the trick.)

Find another part-time job. You could do both. No?

TRiG.

Nice to see you're out enjoying the comings and goings and ambiguities of the real world

Are you not putting your efforts into something theatrical this Christmas sir?

Awww I know how you feel.

Thanks for the sage advice, but,
Even as a Scout I never had the knack for giving any good advice in PR or WW. It's probably because I'm not smart enough or knowledgable in many fields that I could do so. Whenever I did, it would be really stupid or get ignored. Re AWW, I've pretty much given up creative writing for the time being, and I am also not good at judging it either, that's why I quit the UnderGuide. I can't find anything interesting or that I know much about in Challenge or FM, though I do occasionally check in. I would love to make YouTube videos, but I don't actually have the necessary equipment to do so, ie, a video camera. Those other videos were made by someone else. I don't really want another part time job, because I'd probably end up the same situation, and I can't even think of anywhere else I'd like to work. Friends? Virtually impossible for several reasons I don't feel like going into, and besides, I pretty much hate everyone my age that I ever, in some freak circumstance or accident, actually meet. I am indeed saving money so that I can get as far away from this tri-state area as possible, hopefully as soon as I am eighteen.

No, I'm not involved in theatre, Christmas or otherwise, at this point in my career. Though once, when I was seven, I played Tiny Tim. I actually would love to get into the theatre or comedy business, but that's impossible now, because where I am there is pretty much no theatre scene, unless I want to to be in a children's production of Snow White and the Seven F***ing Dwarves, which I personally would rather kill myself with a blunt knife than do.

Hi, FF, I didn't see your post! I haven't seen you around for a long time!

Ya I haven't really been around. I'm also very sick indeed at the moment.

So how've you been other than the work and lack of a life?

Oh, just awaiting Death's cold embrace!

You and me both, except I'm having tea while I wait.

That sounds pretty good, I should make some later on.

You should, with honey and lemon.

You know, Wyatt, it's interesting growing up on h2g2. In the couple years that you've been here, you sound older, more mature - and in my experience, as one grows up one grows away from the site a bit. Maybe I should try to get a job at the library, though...

Good luck getting away from home. Believe me, I sympathize.