it just seems like it never gets any better. All I want is a job that pays me enough to live with a straight seven in the morning until 4:00 or 5:00 in the evening Monday through Friday schedule.
I just want an honest days pay for an honest day's work. I mean there are jobs out there like that, but when they advertise, my application is getting drowned out in the stack of like 200 other people who are competing for the same damn role. when the hell is the economy going to get better so I could finally get my damn foot in the door? how the hell am I supposed to buy a house when most jobs don't even pay enough to cover rent for a one bedroom apartment? when are we going to get those manufacturing jobs back and transition out of this stupid fucking low-wage service economy? I just keep seeing things getting more and more expensive and I really don't give a shit about all this political fucking theater when at the end of the day I'm still getting squeezed just as hard as I was under Joe Biden.
if I'm being honest it's because my schoolwork takes a certain amount of time and mental energy. I want the day shift because of the stability it offers and the regular schedule. I don't want to drop out of school because quite frankly why I want the engineering degree is because I want to go further than just a bachelor's. I want to go into research for material sciences or theoretical physics and so in the long run I want to get a PhD. I need the stability for it. I can't take a shit job that's going to have me working 12 to 14-hour days 5 to 6 days a week because I need that time for homework and studying. I can't get anything done if I don't have any time to sleep. there's tons of manufacturing jobs here and tons of companies that are hiring engineers and a number of government contractors who have their headquarters in the area who do lots of designing and research. so I really want to go into engineering because my passion lies in new technology and the desire to basically implement some of the big ideas that I have. I am constantly simulating high concept technology in my head and using AI and I would love for the opportunity to have the resources to make some of these ideas a reality. things like a sort of chemical catalyst that could create a true alloy of ceramic and metal, one that bonds at the atomic level. or possibly a sort of building material that has carbon fiber nanotubes in it that is like concrete and flexible and you can print it out but it also has like some kind of nervous system in it and it's vascular so it behaves kind of like bone but the capillaries can deliver a kind of reinforcing gel into any cracks that happen as a result of impact and the gel could be like a non-Newtonian fluid that hardens into a metallic lattice that reinforces the structure that you build with it automatically. so like self-healing concrete that actively responds to cracks and impact and get stronger The more it's hit. I get other ideas like this all the time and I would really really like to get to the point where I can have the opportunity to explore these things and even if I can't bring my ideas all the way to fruition then I'm sure that I'd be able to make discoveries along the way that would be extremely useful.