My Day of Nothing

Today got off to a shitty start. I used to work from 3:30-10:00PM so my sleep schedule is set from 2:00AM to 10:00AM. At 8:45 I awake to banging on my door and a swarthy hairy man of greek/russian/turkish decent saying "My Friend, I'm Sorry my friend, I need you to move your car because I have a delivery coming my friend." Now there is a house being built 2 houses down from me and they have woken me up every day. They have inconvenienced us all by starting work at 7:45AM, working on the road until 11:00PM, and the police don't care. Needless to say, I was not happy about this wake-up call, but knew that these cut-rate asshole construction company (I've seen enough to know that they are not reputable) would just dump shit on my car if I didn't move it from outside MY house. So I moved. But first I slammed the door in his face. He got pissed at me and just kept repeating "My friend" loudly and tried to talk to me when I went outside. I ignored him and just glared at him as I moved. I swear the rest of the day they worked EXTRA-LOUD just to piss me off.

I have a paper due on wednesday which i made NO progress on because of the work. I'm starting to go stir-crazy in the house, and not accomplishing much.

On a good note, my blankets and sheets smell good due to a combo of Gain's Apple Mango Tango detergent and Dryer Sheets!

How It All Happened

Here's my Story, and I'm sticking to it.

I have sold life insurance for the past two and a half years. If you think that sounds boring, I promise you its a lot worse than it sounds. I won't say which company I worked for, but I will say that they have a famous spokesperson and commercials that come on cable at weird hours. 

I never liked my job, it was a paycheck. I had incompetent bosses, and frankly the intellectual level of the management was quite shockingly low. E-mails from supervisors were full of spelling mistakes and grammar errors, and my manager (the boss' boss) spelled the word hire "hier". The only upsides were the precious few of my colleagues who I could have intelligent conversations with. Those people know who they are because I've talked to them after leaving. That and one of my best friends works there too. He's jealous that I got fired!!

My termination was a long time coming. I was on numerous write-ups for my call quality. Its hard to get good scores when you have no idea what they are scoring you on! So when they called me into HR, I was not surprised.

I've never been fired before. Every job I have left, I left on my own terms. I did not know what I was going to do with all my free time. Then I decided to fulfill a dream. I have always been a student of History, and had a special interest in the Holocaust. I found out that Gratz College out of Melrose Park, PA has a mostly-online M.A. program in Holocaust in Genocide Studies. I decided to apply. As I was writing that past sentence, I got my acceptance letter!! YAY!! So I am going back to school and job searching. The point of this blog is to take a look at the modern-day job search and life of an unemployed over-educated, gay, white, Jewish man, in the City of Brotherly Love (Philly for those who don't know). I'll try to update often!

What am I doing now? Well I am taking 3 courses this summer. The first is a full summer online course entitled "Popes, Jews, and Blood" the other 2 are week-long courses. One is on Jewish Art, the other is on "Teaching the Holocaust" those occur in July.

Right now I'm writing a 5-7 page paper comparing and contrasting 3 trial transcripts from the Spanish Inquisition. Fun right?

I hope you enjoy reading this!