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[Closed] First world problems - an essay in not coping

andeh · 2012-08-14T10:35:19Z

So, I could actually be out riding my bike now, but instead I'm still in bed, reading this forum and thinking about my shit job and this shit town I'm stuck in. I've not been out on my bike since I got back from France a month or so ago and I'm really struggling to get back into it. I think I need some new friends. Over the years my assorted biking mates have all moved on to the pub and left me to roll alone. Even my normal, non_bikey friends are really grating at the minute. I find them so boring, the mundane things they talk about and the complete lack of desire to do anything even slightly different. I was at the pub last night (for the first time in ages, I don't really drink) and despite trying to involve myself and empathise with their lack of perspective, I just found myself playing tower defense on my phone. I know, I'm a horrible person. Aside from going to uni, where I studied architecture, I've lived in the same backwards little town for my whole 23 years. I'm really struggling to find a job that I can throw myself into and , ideally, not get bored and frustrated with after a few weeks. I'm working at TKMAXX at the minute and detest it with every fibre of my being. I see my colleagues, some deep, intellectual, creative people, forced to "make sure all the coats are zipped up" and the waste of potential leaves me blind with rage. I'm eating my life away in that stupid shop, pandering to their ridiculous, fucking introverted requests. I'm not even sure how I ended up there. In all honesty, I have no point to this post. I think I just wanted to share some of my 1st world problems around, see if anyone has any words of encouragement because it's becoming increasingly hard to just get out of bed, let alone refrain from running a naked mock through the lanes of Meadowhall, collecting eyeballs on a sharpened coat hanger, shouting "I am Kroll! Are you not entertained!?!"

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clubber

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Any good with bikes, selling or dealing with customers?

Get a job at a bike shop. The pay's crap and it's not as much fun as it sounds BUT it is a great experience and IME it can lead to other jobs that are (IMO) better and more interesting in the bike industry. Maybe not a job for life but I know a lot of people who've done that and loved it before getting older and more sensible and getting a more 'sensible' job which they're then old enough to even enjoy doing.

Posted : 14/08/2012 4:18 pm

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