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user-inactivated  ·  3147 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do I deal with my parents' possessive control of me?

The idea of part-time jobs scares me. I'm not sure that I'll benefit from them all that much. All I can do with such a job here is 10k, at best, which is half of what I need to survive while renting - all for the rest of the day that I could better spend on studying and writing something that could actually help me make money later as a writer.

Part-time jobs, for me, is the kind of pit people scare themselves with to do better, like Boogeyman used to scare children into doing their chores. Feeling lazy? "Part-time jo-o-o-ob!" - "Ah, fuck! I'm working, I'm working!". Feeling like spending this bit of money on this little unnecessary thing that will only yield temporary pleasure? "Pa-a-art-ti-i-i-ime jo-o-o-ob!" - "Fuck off! I'm checking my finances, I'm checking 'em!"...

Finances, though. Check; gonna start researching it later. Thanks for letting me know.

As for social interactions - I feel like I'm grasping them, given that I have a few ideas about what's the best practice in conversing with people. I hope they'd be a good theoretical basis for practice, as right now, I can't afford buying the book and am pretty sure I won't be able to rent it from a library. Either way, I'll learn when I fail if they aren't.

And thanks for reminding me that I have something to work for.