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Choose Your Own Adventure
Okay people, this is the opportunity you have all been waiting for. In fact, this is like the “choose your own adventure” novel of the 21st century, except in this novel, you probably aren’t as excited for the ending.
I am coming upon another crossroad in my life. As many of you know, I have taken this semester off school to balance work (average of 84 hours a week) with my flourishing social agenda. Taking a sabbatical from school has been somewhat of a good thing for me. The fact I feel like I loser for not being in school tells me I am going to go back to school, it is only a matter of when, not if. Dare I say, a slight part of me actually regrets not picking up a class or two this semester. But when has regret ever run my life anyway?
Work, despite its demanding hours, is the easiest money I have ever made. The city I work in is usually incredibly slow, and probably gives me more free time than a juvenile detention center. No other job I know will let me take naps all throughout the day (except maybe if I donate my body to science to study sleeping patterns?).
So this is where you get to choose your own adventure, or in this case, my life, which actually isn’t much of an adventure, but I still give you the power to choose for me, which really, is more of suggesting because I am not contractually obligated to do what you decide.
- If you want Jon to stick with his current job and continue to be a college drop out, but save lots of money over the next semester, turn to page 32.
- If you want Jon to stay with his current employer and undertake some college credits, but sacrifice having a life, turn to page 54.
- If you want Jon to find a new job with less hours, more pay, and go to school full time, turn to page 143.
- If you want this sad story of Jon over with as soon as possible, turn to page 162.
But seriously, I don’t know what I should be doing at this point. I have too much I want to do, but I feel like I do not enough time, resources, or actually, motivation.
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You’re a healthy lad, and probably have about 70 more years of crappy life to live. If I was you I was just take off everything and take your friend Aaron to Carnival in Brazil.
maybe you could start looking for another job now and see what your options are. go back to school sometime, and know that there will probably always be some reasons not to, but in the end if school is what gets you where you want to be, then its worth it.
and dont take aaron to carnival, cause thats just too gay.
College is the new high school. You don’t want to be a high school dropout do you?
I also agree with Amanda- carnival with Aaron is too gay. At least, the way I picture it, it would be too gay. You’re life with Aaron, as it is now, however, is just the right amount of gay. If you could pull off carnival in that manner, I say, “Go nuts.”
I didn’t know this still existed.
Too gay? Is that even possible? I thought Carnival was all about glitter, thong underwear and body paint. If those things are gay, then I have a lot of soul searching to do.