http://theratracejournal.com/the-summer-of-phil One person caught up in the rat-race of life Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:22:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://theratracejournal.com/the-summer-of-phil/comment-page-1#comment-49 AP Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:07:06 +0000 http://theratracejournal.com/index.php/2006/09/25/the-summer-of-phil/#comment-49 Whoooo, that question has always left me completely and utterly stumped. The closest I ever got to answering it was when I graduated from high school, and my parents issued me the ultimatum of either moving out (yeah, just TRY living on minimum wage...better jobs were a rarity in the area I lived in at the time), or live at home and attend community college, since I sure couldn't afford a "real" school. Obviously, I picked the latter, and studied graphic design only because I had to pick something, and I can draw a little. Well, as you may know, that degree is pretty much nothing but an expensive poo-ticket, and the few classmates of mine who did manage to get in the door were only making two dollars more than me at Kinko's. Ooooh. So, since that failed experiment, I ended up moving out-of-state with my bf at the time (much to my parents' dismay, despite the fact that they were constantly on my case to move out, even though I was working two jobs, and was never home), and I spent the next few years suffering through low-paying, dead-end jobs until I met my husband and got married. And wouldn't you know it, he doesn't know what he wants from life either, but at least his job pays enough to live on. Anyway, I don't really think that college is the answer for us, and neither of us seem to have very good luck in life, so I really don't want to chance owning a business. My inner gypsy is urging me to get debt-free, build a savings, and do an RV lifestyle, despite the "doom and gloomers" telling me to get land, since I'll be screwed if/when our economy collapses. Since it'll take us a while to get up to speed, I guess I'll just wait and see. Whoooo, that question has always left me completely and utterly stumped. The closest I ever got to answering it was when I graduated from high school, and my parents issued me the ultimatum of either moving out (yeah, just TRY living on minimum wage…better jobs were a rarity in the area I lived in at the time), or live at home and attend community college, since I sure couldn’t afford a “real” school. Obviously, I picked the latter, and studied graphic design only because I had to pick something, and I can draw a little. Well, as you may know, that degree is pretty much nothing but an expensive poo-ticket, and the few classmates of mine who did manage to get in the door were only making two dollars more than me at Kinko’s. Ooooh. So, since that failed experiment, I ended up moving out-of-state with my bf at the time (much to my parents’ dismay, despite the fact that they were constantly on my case to move out, even though I was working two jobs, and was never home), and I spent the next few years suffering through low-paying, dead-end jobs until I met my husband and got married. And wouldn’t you know it, he doesn’t know what he wants from life either, but at least his job pays enough to live on. Anyway, I don’t really think that college is the answer for us, and neither of us seem to have very good luck in life, so I really don’t want to chance owning a business. My inner gypsy is urging me to get debt-free, build a savings, and do an RV lifestyle, despite the “doom and gloomers” telling me to get land, since I’ll be screwed if/when our economy collapses. Since it’ll take us a while to get up to speed, I guess I’ll just wait and see.

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