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[x_multipleman]

Okay, so, starting in a month or so I'm gonna have two jobs: delivering for Mr. Roth (my motto: "Crispy Fresh Hamentaschen In Thirty Minutes Or Less Or I Go All Verklempt, Talk Amongst Yourselves, I'll Give You A Topic") and some sort of insurance data entry thing (my motto: "Why Yes, I Am A Trained Monkey, Ask About Our Banana Special, Beware Of Flung Poo.")

Those two plus my savings from working the farm for Dad plus my pretty-darn-healthy financial aid package ought to be enough to pay for college without sacrificing my soul, my nads, and the first ten years of my adult life on the altar of student loans, but I'm gonna need some walking-around money too, and also the car appreciates a full gas tank.

So I'm thinking about grabbing a third job, but I'm not sure what. My stipulations are as follows:

- No clowns. I don't feel like taking the time to get a degree in clownology (or, before anybody mentions it, clowniatry; the ability to prescribe 50 ccs of seltzer water down the pants is not worth the extra tuition.)

- No telemarketing. I'm already part of an unpopular minority group, thanks, I don't want to try selling aluminum siding to people who'd rather be watching TV/eating dinner/having sex/all of the above. Besides, I'd walk around all the time looking over my shoulder for rabbits with switchblades and/or demon-infested answering machines, and that's no way to live.

Other than that I think I'm pretty open-minded, but I'm also pretty stumped. Any ideas?

Comments

[x_multipleman]

x_tarot
June 20 2005, 08:40:16 UTC
The art store that I frequent is looking for someone to do inventory and shelving, and I know that the owner is open-minded about mutants and use of mutant powers in the store.


x_crowdofone
June 20 2005, 08:47:16 UTC
I could wear a beret and a black turtleneck and look morose!

That's a possibility, though. Hm.


x_tarot
June 20 2005, 08:58:18 UTC
Well, Marcus doesn't wear berets or turtlenecks, he dresses... actually, rather a lot like Mr. Summers. Khaki pants and collared shirts. He does have tattoos though. And I think he used to have an earring, but I have never seen him wearing it. And he is only morose when his supplier is late, or when old women yell at him for not carrying just the right shade of wool.

I can ask him if the job is still open when I go there next.


x_crowdofone
June 20 2005, 09:17:01 UTC
Where's the fun of working in an art supply store if you aren't going to riff the stereotypes? But I guess he can't be too wacky if he's trying to keep the old-lady-knitting market.


x_tarot
June 20 2005, 09:19:30 UTC
I think it is ... a balance. He has tattoos, but since he has to look respectable to keep some clients, he wears nice khakis and shirts.

Maybe old women who knit is a lucrative market. I think it is all the sweaters for little dogs! Or grandchildren. Or grandchildren's dogs.


x_crowdofone
June 20 2005, 09:23:53 UTC
Dog sweaters wig me out. They're dogs. They have fur. Sweaters are just redundant!

But hell, most of those dogs don't walk anywhere anyway, and have brains that consist of "see object-->yap", so maybe they need the sweaters because their fur is just as useless as the rest of them.


x_tarot
June 20 2005, 09:25:07 UTC
Marcus is on a campaign to get those women to knit sweaters to send them to Australia for penguins.


x_crowdofone
June 20 2005, 09:25:52 UTC
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

There are penguins in Australia? Like, wild ones?


x_tarot
June 20 2005, 09:28:37 UTC
Yes. They are very small and blue.


x_crowdofone
June 20 2005, 09:29:33 UTC
Small blue penguins. That's somehow incredibly awesome.