There's no such thing as "power" anyway. That's the illusion. Anyone who takes any guild position looking for power is going to go dormant soon, or at best, neglect the job. It's about work, and GA has a lot more work in running the guild, because that's the GA's job.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the GM has nothing to do, the GM's job is far worse. It's just not within the guild, that's all.

If I had the choice, I'd go back to GA. Not that I'm not enjoying myself as GM, but it's a completely different type of work than GA, and I prefer GA.

Well, power was maybe the wrong word. GA has more GUILD PRIVS, so they get stuck with the guild work.

I was expecting some killer weather tonight...nothing.

My sole scintilla of academic hope at this point is amending my battered GPA via petitions for exemption (I've been failed twice for registering for classes and never attending) and accruing as many grants as I can in a blitzkrieg effort to gain admission to Cal Lutheran.

If that fails, I'll drop out of college and do drugs. : /

I dropped out of college because I burnt out, and opted not to do drugs. In the long run, the latter part was a better decision than the alternative (doing drugs), though the former was probably not my best course of action.

I do though have a really awesome job anyway, so I guess it's not all bad. Take some time off school and get some work experience under your belt, then try again. My fiancé's 35 and he's just now finishing up his year of nursing school, so it's definitely not impossible to go back later on.

On a note of my own dissatisfaction: I wish Morgfyre was around more. I might feel more comfortable with the new one if I saw him more often. I don't really know him though, so I still feel nervous talking to him, whereas with the old one, I recall feeling pretty relaxed about speaking with him anytime. Last time I talked to new Morgfyre, I felt like I was just in his way.

I also am forcing myself not to play my old Celestian alt at all, despite the ferocious urge now that Lyreth is back. ><

OMG Noooooo Bill. :'( Damn you Valve, Damn yoooooouuuuuu.

SPOILERS jeez a whiz I haven't had a chance to play yet!

I considered taking a year-long break from college once, but shortly after prying Mom's hands off my windpipe, the idea lost its luster somehow and I decided against it.

I took a year-long break from college and it was probably the best decision I could have made - it gave me time to decide what I wanted to major in, to get my life on track, and to realize that I definitely wanted that degree - working in a grocery store very quickly lost its appeal.

I couldn't survive in a dead-end job — not because of the abysmal wages and lack of benefits, which are bad enough, but because such jobs tend to be unchallenging, uninteresting, unfulfilling, and not particularly important in the grand scheme of things. I can cheerfully handle difficulty, long hours and stress, but in a dead-end job, I just find such hardships depressing to endure.

Plus in jobs in retail you have to deal with people. Give me my nice quiet cube and leave me alone.

I don't mind people, but I detest trying to sell them things. Checking stuff out and working a cash register is all right, though, just not pitching... most of the time, it's because I know the product(s) are things no one actually needs.

I personally can't get a job at all because of my anxiety attacks. I would love to be able to have a crappy retail job.

But I didn't say anything =_= and I dislike that they didn't make a dlc of the passing for the first one

You said enough! Now it is all ruined for me.

The trick is apathy. You need to get used to not caring if you have a crappy retail job anyway.

stop reminding me how bad walmart is

... right now to make it through the day I sing and dance while I fold clothes and try to think up poetry and jewelry designs *sigh*

I'm going back to college, really. Just need to get my life back on track.

I have extremely bad social anxiety. Let me go into a smidgen of detail.

I had a job for one month back in my senior year of highschool, as a cashier at Rite Aid. It was both my first and last job. Every single day was spent shaking and on the edge of a full-blown mental breakdown because I had to interact with so many people I didn't know every day. I did not get used to it; every day was worse than the last. When I quit, it was because I was actually vomitting at the thought of going into work.

Apathy is not such a simple option.

I've been furiously trying for a job for the last 2 weeks; I've sent out about 20 applications and haven't heard a single thing from anybody. All my friends say "well, call them and pester them about your application," but when I do I just get a cold shoulder if I can get through to the manager, or some lackey who doesn't know what's really going on.

It's extremely discouraging, and I suspect that the main reason I'm not getting interviews is (ironically) my lack of job experience.