Update XVII: I Ate The Strawberry (The REAL, AUTHENTIC Update)

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

I made it back to Tulsa with my medicine.  That was one very wet drive.  My windshield wipers were on high for a solid 90 minutes both directions.  I'm going to a Men's Dinner and Bible Study at church tonight and then come home and watch Monday Night Football. I am not going to exercise and I am also not going to do any CADD work.

FTFY

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

What's for dinner?

ribs

This is Jeff in 10 years:

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

Jeff, even though unemployment sucks and it's tempting to take the first thing that comes along, will you consider doing yourself a favor this time around and be discriminating based on the quality of prospects you have?

You've got a lot of interviews lined up, but if the first one is a call center and they (as they are prone to do) make an immediate offer, you don't have to take it.

I know you've been thinking about the next job as short term, and if that's the case, you can stillbe discriminating so that your financial impact is minimized. Taking a call center or other temp job in OKC, which necessitates a move, all while maintaining a place in Tulsa and (from what I gathered) not sub-leasing just doesn't make logical sense.

I will be more discriminate, at least on tomorrow's interview.  I think tomorrow's interview may be for a low paying job, so I'll definitely be more discriminate on it.  In fact, until I find out a decision on the interview I had today, I'll be hesitant.  The main reason for that is today's job would pay $15 an hour, whereas tomorrow may struggle to pay $10.  Of course, admittedly, I can talk a good game now, who knows what I'll be like if I actually get an offer in front of me...

It is despicable that the woman who fixes my coffee at Starbucks makes less than that despite being harder working and better educated than you, and you think you're entitled to $15 an hour so you can cover your Braum's combos and cable subscription.

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

Bushie, why don't you utilize your personal relationship with Mr. Lankford to develop a business relationship with Mr. Lankford and/or friends of Mr. Lankford?

Seriously, tell him you want to be his outreach director to evangelical Christians or Native Americans or something.

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

J-Mann, I prefer not to disclose my finances in any more detail.  Don't even ask privately.

Fine then! I'd tell you mine if you asked

I would recommend that you outline your necessary monthly spending (key word: necessary) and use that to determine the kind of wage you need, rather than picking an arbitrary number that you don't want to dip below. Maybe you already have.

It strikes me that a lot of people take on two or more jobs in order to make ends meet, and that's a possibility that you (and, to be fair, any of us) never consider. It's not like you don't have the free time to do a part-time shift of something on top of a normal, 40-hour work week.

And you may be considering pizza delivery a joke option, but while you're looking to get back on your feet, why not? You'd earn tips.

How does he hold down 1.5-2 jobs when he can't seem to hold down one?

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

Let us know how good the Dairy Queen lunch is. 

It's so sad, because in the Southwest you will undoubtedly drive by a bunch of cool little Mexican places that are so out of the way that you will only get a couple chances to ever eat there.  No, no, no the Clan Bushie will drive far and wide to find a McDonald's or something and get some real food! 

What do you think the dynamic is like when Bushie, Mom, and Dad stop in at a restaurant to eat?  Does Mama Bushie scold Our Dear Friend as she would when he was a little tike to settle down? 

The Texas Panhandle and Eastern New Mexico are basically arid emptiness with the occasional ornery white person. So alas, DQ and McDonalds are probably all the Bushies are going to come across.