Articles - Lost Generation
"Certainty of Entropy"
by Dom B.
2001.08.09
I've learned several important economic lessons lately. First and
foremost among these lessons is the simple concept that when your
spending
is greater than your
earning and your
saving,
you go into
debt. I've also learned that when you
don't make shit for money and all the money you do save gets removed by
the government to pay student loans, it doesn't take much spending to put
you in the red. If you think that I'm acting like I'm the only
person in the world who's in debt, just remember this: I am very, very,
bitter.
So I have made a decision to improve my current economic state. No, I'm
not selling my internal organs; you wouldn't want them anyways, especially
not my pancreas and my liver. I have decided to get a second
job. I don't do too much anyway in the evenings besides surf the
internet and sacrifice pigeons to Zoroaster. Just kidding! I
think the internet is Pure Evil and all whom traffic it are damning
themselves! But, I need a part time job and Zoroaster will
understand. So, I will present you with my very own Multi-Purpose
Job Application, created and filled out by yours truly. Feel free to
distribute it to any employer whom you think will meet my demands and
throw wads of money at me. In a non-sexual way, you perverts.
Name: Dom B.
Address: Mom and Dad's House.
Age: I turned 24 five days ago. Send money to the above address.
Schooling: St. Vincent College, B.S. in Biology.
Beer: Yeungling
Why Did You Pick Your Course of Study?
Because I was a stupid, stupid little boy who actually thought I wanted to go back
to Grad School after I graduated. I'm mad because the time I spent
studying several hundred worthless facts that no one actually uses in the
real world would have been better spent doing bong hits.
You Seem To Have A Real Attitude Problem.
Yes. Yes I do.
I Bet You Think The World Owes You A Living.
No, but the World owes me five bucks from the time we were at Wendy's and It
wanted Fries and a Frosty with Its Triple Decker Burger but had spent all
of Its money on smokes.
So What Do You Want To Do?
I want to write comic books.
Yeah, Like That's Going To Happen.
I'm trying to make it happen, and when I succeed, I'm going to come back here
and do something mean to you for laughing at me.
So What Type of Job are you looking for?
I'll be realistic and say that my only option is going to be retail. I'd
do retail with things I like, such as books, or computers, or women's
lingerie. At a women's lingerie store that only strippers shop at.
What skills do you have?
Some of the skills I acquired in college include remembering useless facts
until the test is over, writing faster than the professor babbles, getting
drunk, flip cup, whining to professors, etc. etc. One of my natural skills
is bullshitting.
How much do you want paid?
Enough so that my part-time job doesn't become my full time job, and enough so
that I don't go postal on the customers, and enough to buy a small island
in the Caribbean.
Have you ever drank or done drugs on the job?
Why? Are you buying?