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Jul. 12th, 2002 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pearwaldorfI am thrilled to see that the Food for Thought cafe at PSU will be finally opening up, despite the current corporate contractor bitching about it violating their exclusitivity contract (not that it really matters, because the food's crap. I should know, I used to work there). They're also hiring. The job at the Grocery Store is starting to become damnably unbearable, what with idiotic corporate expectations and managerial stress from said corporate expectations. I can't remember the last time I thought to myself, "Hey, maybe this job isn't so bad after all." Usually it's "Damn I must have done something bad in a past life to deserve this."
Don't get me wrong, I'm profoundly grateful I'm not standing my ass in line to get unemployment checks. I like having money (people are picky when you don't pay rent, y'know). But this is a chance to do something meaningful for myself and hopefully for the university community. There's just so many things to take into consideration—like the fact that it's a seasonal position and would leave me with three months of no work, and the fact that most of the progressive community I've come in contact with seems to be a bunch of militant idiots, and if they're not idiots, they're bent on imposing their vision of the world upon everybody else, which doesn't make them any better than most of the people they oppose. Yes, I am a bitter and terribly cynical person. This is what my experience has taught me. If there are any progressives who don't shove dogma down your throat, I would like to meet them, and if all goes well, I would like to work with them as well.
Don't get me wrong, I'm profoundly grateful I'm not standing my ass in line to get unemployment checks. I like having money (people are picky when you don't pay rent, y'know). But this is a chance to do something meaningful for myself and hopefully for the university community. There's just so many things to take into consideration—like the fact that it's a seasonal position and would leave me with three months of no work, and the fact that most of the progressive community I've come in contact with seems to be a bunch of militant idiots, and if they're not idiots, they're bent on imposing their vision of the world upon everybody else, which doesn't make them any better than most of the people they oppose. Yes, I am a bitter and terribly cynical person. This is what my experience has taught me. If there are any progressives who don't shove dogma down your throat, I would like to meet them, and if all goes well, I would like to work with them as well.
