| | Well, the good news is that I passed my summer course. At least thats over with and I don't have to think about it for another couple months. Incredible considering my work put me on for 40hours that week. Argh...
Why is our company failing at managing anything is pretty simple. Our new boss is a nice guy but he doesn't actually do anything that doesn't directly increase the company's profits. Our manager is on a power trip and does crazy things like double shifts and asking me to do a 17 hour shift a couple days before my final. She is making crap up that is currently pissing everyone in the company off. The worst right now is that they don't want to accommodate us when we need days off, no matter how early I let them know. We tell our new boss this but we haven't seen any changes. Our old boss would help us out whenever we asked. If I needed a day off for an exam, he would have made sure I got the day off. Its quite sad because most of the people working at my company are good people and don't deserve the crap they're handing to us with a smile.
I really have to figure out some sort of financial plan that doesn't involve me working 40 hours a week. I'm working 40 hours and I'm not making enough money to do the stuff I want to do. Its annoying but thats how things are. I want a new laptop but I have this stupid feeling in the back of my head that I won't get the model I want, the Lenovo X61s Tablet. I'm going have to settle with a last generation Vaio C series or a MacBook. Even then, its still not in the freaking budget. The large chunk of my budget is going to quiting my job. I'm trying to save up enough money to pay off the rent for about 10 months and then I will go look for some cheap part time work to pay off various expenses. So right now, I have hit my goal of saving enough money to survive 10 months. Which is good cause its early in the summer. But I don't think I will be able to hit my goal for a new laptop.
I was hoping to get a digital SLR this summer but that idea had to be trashed. I don't have any budget for it at all (400+$). I could buy an older (like 10 years old) but they're not great quality and whats the point, it probably won't satisfy my level of picture quality. I wish my father would go and buy any new digital SLR, but thats a pipe dream. It sucks so hard... I'm stuck using a 2mpix camera phone for the time being...
I would love to get a new phone or a PDA because I need to be connected at all times as well the need to take notes down. I always find myself needing a pen and paper and I usually have a hard time remember stuff because I don't get the chance to write things down. What I'm thinking right now is to just buy an old Sony Clie because I know the chances of getting a new phone is next to nothing. Oh, and I love reading e-books but my PSP is too bulky and unintuitive to read any sort of e-book. I'm currently thinking I should get it because the chances of getting a tablet PC is next to nothing. Worst, if I don't get a tablet, whats the point of getting a laptop. I'm not going to type my notes in class because thats just retarded, how the hell do I type or draw complicated diagrams on a laptop?? Yea, my notes are going to be filled with, "look at diagram in notebook," thereby defeating the purpose of using a laptop.
I'm physically tired but my mind is blazing with ideas since my exam finished. I'm currently learning how to program for Java just to keep my mind busy when I'm at work. I was thinking of building a holographic projector but now the idea is canned. Theres no way I can feasibly make it within a small budget. I'm just going to play around with the math until I figure out how I'm ever going to afford it. Planning to buy electronics equipment to design my own circuits as well as help my studies. I guess I have that to look forward to.
I'm working too much to clean up, or to even enjoy, the turn table I found. I'm going to have to sell it as well as my PSP. I've outgrown it, its a great machine to play games but I'm not finding any time to play games. I use it to read e-books anyways, I don't need all that extra power for that. If anyone wants it, I'd let both go for 200$ each.
I asked my mom (not my dad) for money during the school semester but frankly, I doubt I will get the amount of I asked for. Living with my parents is confining, its hard to do what I want. I never got a good computer from them which is sad because it is probably the sole reason I can troubleshoot computers quickly. Know what, I'm not going to dwell on issues with my parents. It doesn't change anything and living away from them gives me enough breathing room to enjoy the small things in life, such as finally having the ability to read books of my choice (my parents never just let me buy stuff, they always have to make me doubt my purchase -- which is inherent in my personality, I succumb to doubt easily).
I'm not exactly exuberant but I'm not exactly depressed either. I'm optimistic that things will turn out well for me so I don't worry about it too much. Sigh, if its not money, its time, and I have don't have a surplus of either. But I do have just enough to finish university at least. Which I currently wonder if I should do architecture or something after I graduate. I'm interested in too many topics to be just tied down to one thing and it pisses me off. The very least thing that I can do is to try make sure my brother doesn't get screwed and not get some opportunities into doing things. Sigh.
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