I offer my soul if you make it worth my while…
My hours entail I get to work at 08:00, and stay until 17:00 PM. That means I must leave the house at 07:25 to drive the distance and deal with the Morning Rush. And then it takes roughly an hour more to get back home once I leave from work. 07:25 to 18:00…That’s about nine and a half hours out of my day for work plus the hell-like commute.
I wear all black and I have never strayed of that conviction and I will not start now. My car does not have Air Conditioning, and it is only the beginning of what will be the hottest summer in recorded history. When I get home I have to peel the shirt off my back, shower and change clothes. Then I have to wash my only two dress shirts so I won’t be out of dress code for work.
Another thing. I am quite tired of playing the platonic guy friend to a half dozen female friends. I do not enjoying being a panting dog on a leash to these women girls. All of whom think I’m trying to be cute or funny when I express romantic interest in them. It’s hurt so much, that recently I have cast a few of them aside. It hurts to not have them as friends. So many good times, so many inside jokes. But it doesn’t hurt as much as it does to suffer being the “nice guy”.
Also, I don’t know where these fuckers are coming from, but like a plague from God sent to test my resilience, there are flies getting into the house by the scores. Although I admit it is an odd skill, I am an accomplished fly catcher. I learned in O&A. I can deftly pull them right out the air almost always on the first try. In the time that it has taken me to get this far, I have caught 18 flies and released them outside. I am almost unable to return to my computer without another coming to harass me.
I require 8 hours of sleep. I just do. I have to wake up of my own accord and not by an alarm clock. I am and always will be a person who operates at night. No matter how long I work a day shift, I know I will never get fully used to it. I’ve tried it many times. And it just hasn’t worked.
Every night I am up past Midnight, begging to God to let me fall asleep so I don’t have to be completely miserable the following morning. The sick tired zombie feeling of the mornings in Middle and High School come to mind.
I am now a Software Instructor at New Horizons. The job is fine. But it is work. REAL fucking work. Do you know what that’s like? I sit at a near obsolete computer, stood atop a fold out table, and I buckle down in a hot, stuffy room for 8 hours and do what I’m being paid to do. You manual laborers wouldn’t last a day with the mind strain I’ve been exerting on myself. I’d take physical exhaustion over this any day of the week. It’s the most responsibility I’ve ever had requested of me. And I question my ability to handle it. My job is to learn new software, hardware, and certifications that I sometimes know absolutely zero about in one day’s time and then teach it to a class of anywhere from 1 to 20 people who are old enough to be my parents. I can do it. I just don’t know if I want to. (I imagine a few of my old friends from Cox went through this…)
Another turn off of my new job: I am the youngest person in the building by 7 years. Not a peer in sight. No one to flirt with. No one to accompany me to lunch. For most people, their jobs account for 80% of their social life. So far I’ve had nigh none. Granted, I can relate to and get along with my coworkers just fine. In fact, so far they are the most pleasurable company I’ve ever worked with. But I feel so out of place. Almost as if I am intruding.
I have always made friends with those who are older then me. This has been true since I was very little. But I just can’t see myself asking a bunch of married guys, who are that much older then me to go out to eat or chill at the club.
I always have said that I grew up too fast. Not because of self-reliance, but because of my intelligence. It’s only now, however, that I’m starting to see that I am missing out on the best parts of being my age because of it.
The best years of my life, and I’m missing them. One day at a time.
The first person to tell me to “Do something about it.” I shun forever. Do not tell me what needs to be done to recify the the situation! You presumptuous fuck! You have no concept of how hard I’ve worked to improve my quality of life!
That being said…
I don’t want to a job where I have to be so responsible and dedicated. I want to work a menial job in fast food or technical support. I want to get hammered and do stupid shit. I want to fuck someone and worry only about my own gratification. I want to have a stupid girlfriend whom I openly hate and emotionally abuse to keep her around for sex. She will think she loves me. I will to cheat on her often. I want to have my car impounded for illegal street racing. I want to beat the fuck out of someone for childish reasons. I want everyone to know just how badly I can hurt them if I had the mind for it. I do not want to utilize my intelligence. I do not want to be of the elite. I want to be 21. I am so tired of being twice my age. — So tired.
I know I could never intentionally do or be any of these things. But I wish I could be. Just to see how the rest of the world lives.
I want to love. Mostly I want to be loved.
I want to be pitied and I want to be rewarded for being able to admit it. For the first time in a very long time. I want out.
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For the love of God, someone, anyone, call me this weekend. All these burdens are in vain if they don’t some how pay off in something besides money.
Work to live. Don’t live to work.