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I just wish it was easy
Dec. 10th, 2005 07:51 pmI never realised how exhausting house hunting could be. And the main reason is just frustration and annoyance at the stupid "system".
In their incessant effort to foster hate and resentment in the unemployed/unemployable community, they want to slug you a fee for being a couple. Once Matt and I move in together and declare ourselves as a couple (which in Centerlinks pigeonhole is a "de-facto relationship", we'll suddenly start using less resources. A couple doesn't have to eat as much as two people, or take up as much space. Yaknow, cuz the two people merge into this bizarre entity... or something. We'll lose over $100 a week. At a time where we're desperately requiring more money to be able to move in to a house together, preferably on our own.
So, after seething about this a while as I was driving home I slapped myself about and said, "It's really quite simple. YOU have to get off your lazy arse and GET A JOB!" Any job, start low, aim high, work your way up. Even if you are afraid of phones and people and all that shit. Be a waitress, be a checkout chick, be a receptionist, I draw the line at telemarketing, and although washing dogs would be okay, my skin protests too much. Preferably something week days, so I have evenings and weekends to socialise and be with people (yeah, even though I'm afraid of them). I must e-mail Michael Coote and ask him how I get a shoe in the door at CALM. Millions of other people manage to raise enough money to live comfortably. Many didn't waste about 10 years of their life piss-farting around and were actually saving money. So when they met someone and decided to live together there were plenty of resources to buy or build a comfortable home. Unfortunately it's not the situation with Matt and me, but hell, I can't just keep seething about it because that makes no progress at all. No time like the present they say.
In their incessant effort to foster hate and resentment in the unemployed/unemployable community, they want to slug you a fee for being a couple. Once Matt and I move in together and declare ourselves as a couple (which in Centerlinks pigeonhole is a "de-facto relationship", we'll suddenly start using less resources. A couple doesn't have to eat as much as two people, or take up as much space. Yaknow, cuz the two people merge into this bizarre entity... or something. We'll lose over $100 a week. At a time where we're desperately requiring more money to be able to move in to a house together, preferably on our own.
So, after seething about this a while as I was driving home I slapped myself about and said, "It's really quite simple. YOU have to get off your lazy arse and GET A JOB!" Any job, start low, aim high, work your way up. Even if you are afraid of phones and people and all that shit. Be a waitress, be a checkout chick, be a receptionist, I draw the line at telemarketing, and although washing dogs would be okay, my skin protests too much. Preferably something week days, so I have evenings and weekends to socialise and be with people (yeah, even though I'm afraid of them). I must e-mail Michael Coote and ask him how I get a shoe in the door at CALM. Millions of other people manage to raise enough money to live comfortably. Many didn't waste about 10 years of their life piss-farting around and were actually saving money. So when they met someone and decided to live together there were plenty of resources to buy or build a comfortable home. Unfortunately it's not the situation with Matt and me, but hell, I can't just keep seething about it because that makes no progress at all. No time like the present they say.
