A Perfect World

In a perfect world...we are all born as adults, no childhood, straight
to adulthood. Being that its not so, we have to endure childhood with
all the problems and shit, its part of 'growing up'. Why I say this, its
because of this, bear with me here.

Because we are born as infants and advance to the stages of adulthood,
there are a lot of things we grow to know, main things are employment,
then marraige and a family. In a perfect world, we are born as adults,
then straight to employment and then maybe marriage. Employment. See, if
we are employed and don't have to worry about raising children, there
would be less stress. That's the way I see it. As an adult, the only
person you would have to take care of is yourself, no stress. If you
only have to take care of just yourself, as an adult you would only need
the basics, food clothing and shelter, nothing else. Being that its just
you, do you really need a whole apartment or just one room? To me, just
one room that you share an apartment with 2 other people or whatever.

NY Post has an article, section of their newspaper that comes out every
Monday, @Work. Well, I wrote to them on Monday, and they answered me
back. What I asked was this. Why do people who come to a place seeking
employment and there is a position open, we tell them to fill out the
application and bring it back. But they never do. We have, had a
position open. We told people who came in, about 10 of them to bring the
application back. Only 2 people did. Both female, one with experience,
the other, has never worked a day in her life but she 18 years old. We
went with the 18 year old one. Figured we can train her to the way we
want her to work. Strange thing was that we she bought the application
back, she also bought her parants with her, and they sat, walked around
with the manager during their daughters interview. Did I miss something?
Ok, she never worked a day in her life, staright out of High School, but
bringing your parents in for the interview? Maybe its me.

Now we have to get the owner to give the ok. Its coming up on the
Holidays really fast, expect to be busy and we want her to at leats have
the knowledge of what's what. And, if she doesn't work out, we still
have time to train some one else in her place. But being that the owner
is rather busy, its going on day 2 now, and no word yet about her start
date.

A guy was suppose to start today working with me. Before he even
started, he quit. How can you quit when you never started? So, I worked
from 7am to 3pm by myself, no biggie. Store manager comes and tells me
that the young lady will be starting tomorrow, Friday, at 10am. Would
have been easier if she would have came in today and trained, but what
do I know. We will see tomorrow what the day will bring.

I follow some people on Twitter and they Twittered something
interesting. There are 39K people living in homeless shelters in NYC,
who HAVE full time jobs. Doesn't suprise me. So what, you have full time
job, doesn't mean you're making BIG bucks either. What it says to me is
that even though they are working, they can't afford housing in NYC, but
they can, believe me. Maybe not all of them, but at least some of them.
What most people living in city shelters wan their own place, not
willing to share an apartment with anyone. Also, they are looking for a
certain neighborhood, say like Brooklyn, The Bronx to live. They won't
just live anywhere. When I was in the system, I didn't care where I laid
my head, as long as I could afford it. If I didn't like it, I saved up
to get a better place I could afford. Like right now.

A friend, co worker, is buying a house. Its been completely done over
from top to bottom with new appliances and such. He wants to give me the
basement 2 bedroom apartment for a nice deal. I could pay the electric
bill for the whole house, or just pay 600 for the basement apartment.
The only issue is, its that I don't know how his habits are with
electricity. Summertime, does he has air conditioning in every room
going full blast when no ones at home. But if I take the deal with
paying electric, I could rent out the room for say 400 a month. I still
could do it if I was just paying him 600 a month for rent too. Right now
he's talking with his lawyer and mortgage company and everything. Will
keep you aware of what's what.
--michaelchappell