i cannot do one more day of this. i hate architecture so much and i hate every class. i want to drop every class i am in tomorrow and just get a job and apply to other schools for the all. i just can't do this anymore.
>that feel when you have a major you love and you can happily envision yourself working in a job related to it
It looks like the appropriate process is to "apply for a leave of absence" which would allow me to return either in the fall or spring and keep my scholarship. I could return here or transfer somewhere else. Hopefully they will grant me a leave of absence? I guess I don't know why they wouldn't...though it is called "applying" for a reason I am sure. doodthing;
But I know I can support myself here in the short term with a cheap job. I don't think I would have that much trouble finding one.
Quote from: applesauce on March 05, 2012, 02:36:28 AM
It looks like the appropriate process is to "apply for a leave of absence" which would allow me to return either in the fall or spring and keep my scholarship. I could return here or transfer somewhere else. Hopefully they will grant me a leave of absence? I guess I don't know why they wouldn't...though it is called "applying" for a reason I am sure. doodthing;
But I know I can support myself here in the short term with a cheap job. I don't think I would have that much trouble finding one.
i would find a job before you quit school. you don't want to end up in dire straits.
Quote from: N o t S i d on March 05, 2012, 03:11:21 AM
i would find a job before you quit school. you don't want to end up in dire straits.
Well, I am pretty positive that I can find a minimum wage job if I looked hard enough. Worst case I have 1 month left on my lease here and could move home, but I pray to god that doesn't happen.
Quote from: applesauce on March 05, 2012, 03:13:10 AM
Well, I am pretty positive that I can find a minimum wage job if I looked hard enough. Worst case I have 1 month left on my lease here and could move home, but I pray to god that doesn't happen.
idk it took me five months to find a job here in asheville. i don't know what the job market is in chicago. I figured since its a bigger city then it would be harder to find a job seeing as how there's a shitton of people. of course bigger cities mean bigger opportunities.
Quote from: N o t S i d on March 05, 2012, 03:19:06 AM
idk it took me five months to find a job here in asheville. i don't know what the job market is in chicago. I figured since its a bigger city then it would be harder to find a job seeing as how there's a shitton of people. of course bigger cities mean bigger opportunities.
You don't think walking down every single commercial street and asking every business if they are hiring would work?
Quote from: applesauce on March 05, 2012, 03:19:52 AM
You don't think walking down every single commercial street and asking every business if they are hiring would work?
im not saying it won't work, im just saying you shouldn't go without a source of income banking on a idea.
you should quit school if you're not happy. im all for doing whatever makes you feel good. I'm just going off my experience. This girl i was seeing was here for a year and she still couldn't find a job. Everyone is looking,
again, chicago is a bigger city, so you'll probably have more opportunities for work.
Quote from: N o t S i d on March 05, 2012, 03:29:03 AM
im not saying it won't work, im just saying you shouldn't go without a source of income banking on a idea.
you should quit school if you're not happy. im all for doing whatever makes you feel good. I'm just going off my experience. This girl i was seeing was here for a year and she still couldn't find a job. Everyone is looking,
again, chicago is a bigger city, so you'll probably have more opportunities for work.
Well now you have me really concerned. I can always move back home if I absolutely have to.
Quote from: applesauce on March 05, 2012, 03:30:47 AM
Well now you have me really concerned. I can always move back home if I absolutely have to.
im not saying this to dishearten you or anything. if i were you i would start hitting the pavement today.
ya know if you really wanted to put your job hunting skills to the test you could move to asheville y/n
WELL FUCK THAT PHONE CALL WENT WELL saddood; saddood; saddood; saddood; saddood;
Quote from: applesauce on March 05, 2012, 04:19:14 AM
WELL FUCK THAT PHONE CALL WENT WELL saddood; saddood; saddood; saddood; saddood;
what happened :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
work at a cave
I support this change in things. I've learned painfully that you have to follow your heart, and when you don't, even the most compelling effort and beliefs can but only rearrange things to make them seem mediocre, and lasting. But not much more than this, because it was never meant to be. And this is a sad and terrible state of affairs to find yourself in.
Leave it all behind.
Start something new.
See how it feels.
Go from there.
The country's been panicking the past five years because unemployment rates have been so high. Don't just immediately quit everything and expect a job to fall in your lap, because even if you do find a job, they probably won't ask you to start immediately.
Quote from: Pancake Persona on March 05, 2012, 09:46:52 AM
The country's been panicking the past five years because unemployment rates have been so high. Don't just immediately quit everything and expect a job to fall in your lap, because even if you do find a job, they probably won't ask you to start immediately.
Agreed. Line up a few part time prospects
before cutting ties if it's your intent on continuing school in he future.
Maybe just strategically drop a few classes and kill some of the workload right now?
I'm having a hell of a blast with my action research initiative right now, despite the crippling workload and the fact that this is probably something I'm never going to want to do in the future. Second client proposal is this week Q('_' Q) huhdoodame;
Quote from: Pancake Persona on March 05, 2012, 09:46:52 AM
The country's been panicking the past five years because unemployment rates have been so high. Don't just immediately quit everything and expect a job to fall in your lap, because even if you do find a job, they probably won't ask you to start immediately.
don't just immediately assume getting a college degree is worth anything and expect a job to fall in your lap, either, because even if you do find a job it will pretty much be exactly the same shit you'd be doing if you didn't have a college degree
work for yourself, welcome to the desert of the real
Quote from: vziard on March 05, 2012, 10:22:29 AM
work for yourself, welcome to the desert of the real
where the oasis is first found in your soul, and then seeded to the world. :'(
i don't know, sometimes i feel like i am following the northern star, high and hazy, and other times i feel i am shifted and moved by these hands unseen, greeting, shoving pushing me around, and i feel lost at sea but someone not without a will and a place to call my own. can't take life away from me.
I'm going to own that damned apple orchard someday.
Quote from: Socks on March 05, 2012, 10:39:58 AM
where the oasis is first found in your soul, and then seeded to the world. :'(
i don't know, sometimes i feel like i am following the northern star, high and hazy, and other times i feel i am shifted and moved by these hands unseen, greeting, shoving pushing me around, and i feel lost at sea but someone not without a will and a place to call my own. can't take life away from me.
yeah i mean what I'm saying is if you don't have a marketable skill then don't expect college to get you a job, a 'marketable skill' is ideally something you invent not something anyone else can learn from a class or a book (because then you are not living as a person you are living as a slave)
well, i would say living with a marketable mentality is sort of like a slave anyway. i would say 'useful', or 'good' is a better word, because not everything that is marketable is useful or positive and not everything useful and positive is marketable, whether initially or perpetually. i find that if you have merit and your idea and effort and belief has merit, it will mean something and show, it will endure and have an effect. but marketability ruins all of this and then gives rise to profits and economy and then here we are, stuck in the rate race.
Quote from: Socks on March 05, 2012, 01:12:08 PM
well, i would say living with a marketable mentality is sort of like a slave anyway. i would say 'useful', or 'good' is a better word, because not everything that is marketable is useful or positive and not everything useful and positive is marketable, whether initially or perpetually. i find that if you have merit and your idea and effort and belief has merit, it will mean something and show, it will endure and have an effect. but marketability ruins all of this and then gives rise to profits and economy and then here we are, stuck in the rate race.
of course, but regrettably we
are talking about jobs
Quote from: vziard on March 05, 2012, 10:22:29 AM
don't just immediately assume getting a college degree is worth anything and expect a job to fall in your lap, either, because even if you do find a job it will pretty much be exactly the same shit you'd be doing if you didn't have a college degree
work for yourself, welcome to the desert of the real
i'm currently working on my own projects that i plan on making money from, and i'm doing a job for a friend that will give me a decent amount of money
my plan from the start has been to make money on my own and get an actual job if that doesn't work out. programmers have it easier. people majoring in architectural studies need to put a lot more effort into finding a place to work.
This makes me afraid that I won't like my major D:
Quote from: ,,,-,,, on March 06, 2012, 09:23:35 PM
This makes me afraid that I won't like my major D:
what is it
Quote from: ,,,-,,, on March 06, 2012, 09:48:09 PM
I'm planning on physics.
hope you like math and anal rape
Quote from: Pancake Persona on March 06, 2012, 09:48:51 PM
hope you like math and anal rape
I'm pretty good at math. I could totes get into anal.
But seriously, I'm taking AP Physics this year and I'm doing pretty well.
I met with the head of second year studies in the college of architecture and my studio professor for like 45 minutes today, and then I dropped studio.
Quote from: applesauce on March 07, 2012, 05:49:36 PM
I met with the head of second year studies in the college of architecture and my studio professor for like 45 minutes today, and then I dropped studio.
Bam!
That's your ticket, stamped and ready to roll.
Best of luck, though!
Quote from: applesauce on March 05, 2012, 03:13:10 AM
Well, I am pretty positive that I can find a minimum wage job if I looked hard enough. Worst case I have 1 month left on my lease here and could move home, but I pray to god that doesn't happen.
Drew...Find a job. Take it from someone who has been hopelessly unemployed in Chicago for months.