Postby Omegagouki » Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:01 am
Well, I may as well blab about my education and career stuff, since everyone else is. let's see...
Well, I went to a special preschool before I went to kindergartden. Older kids were bothersome and I wound up going through special ed up until 4th grade where I switched to mixed, and then regular education in 5th grade and middle school.
In middle school, I was pretty lazy-ish in my studies, and the gangbangers bugged me because I didn't want anything to do with gangs and such stupidity. I think I made a few brief friends, though. I did manage to squeak through middle school and wind up in high school, where I made more brief friends.
'Round the middle of freshman year, I was made the target of quite a few people's ill will and this continued throughout. Some of it had to do with not being a very social person, and the rest was because of my geekeries. Some people actually wanted to destroy me just because I liked certain things, and they pulled off a multi-person conspiracy/campaign of emotional harassment against me that eventually led to me not being able to take it anymore, and so I dropped out of high school and got myself my GED a little after. Even to this day, I will have remnants of the conspiracy who obviously don't know high school is over and it's time to grow the hell up occasionally wind up surprising me with an attack. Luckily, this is a very rare occurance.
After I got my GED, I started going through college to get a degree in visual arts, I did well in some classes, crappy in others, and I started going into a lethargic state sometimes due to my health problems others just because I was lazy, missing classes and coursework and study, that eventually got me academically suspended. After a year or so of failed job appilications and more lethargy, as well as lots of internet use, I was able to appeal my suspension.
I could only take one class for it because that's all my mom could pay for, as my financial aid was suspened, too. Unfortunately, the counselor talked me into taking my bane class, Composition and Rhetoric 1. It was during this time my mom was in between owning cars, so I had to walk to school, which is only about a 30-minute walk away. The class once again proved to be my bane, and I finished with a Withdrawn. I still partly owe the college some of my tuition, and I can't take a class til it's paid for. Next time I go back, I'm taking a damn "easy A" class. Will I continue for a visual arts degree? I don't really know.
As for work, I was working for a temp agency for a while during the suspension time, but I only got one job from it and I didn't last long on it. I might still technically be employed to the agency, but they never call me at all.
About two months ago, I applied to a job at my mom's workplace for a job as an aide in the kitchen, they gave me a TB and a drug test and made it sound like I got hired. After a little over over a month of waiting, much to me and my mom's chagrin, it turned out I wasn't actually hired and that I had just gotten jerked around. :x
For 2007, I'm going to apply for more jobs and see where it goes from there.
My dream has been to be an artist, but I'm really more of a "hobby" artist than a serious one. I would like to work in video game or electronics retail as I like that sort of stuff, but let's face it, retail is hell. Still, it would be an interetsing job. Computer science also looks like a fun career for me, but I'm really only of an intermediate computer user... but that's what getting educated is for, right? I also wouldn't be opposed in being in an office job or law enforcement, though the latter, eh, I'm not really active enough of a person for that.
Dear god, that was a lot of talk, there. But, hey, it felt good to talk about it. ^^