I hate this city, I Hate this city, I HATE this city!
I am a college student trying to find a part time job (in addition to my full time one with the university) and I am having a pathetically difficult time finding one.
For the record: Did anyone catch that Conan O’Brien with Lewis Black as the guest speaker? Well, Lewis Black even goes on a rant on how pathetic this city is… here is a link to it on my webpage… Lewis Black describes Rolla, MO (I encoded it into .mp3 form so its less than 1MB)
Anyway, back to my rant: No one in this town seems to understand the concept of “professionalism”. When I call you, and leave a voicemail or text message for you, you call me back! Hell, call me crazy, but I thought that’s what you’re supposed to do when you TELL someone you’re going to call them back. Obviously, though, the custom of common decency and respect to others is thrown completely out the window here in Rolla! If you have no intentions of calling me back, then tell me so… don’t waste my time by implying that I might be able to get a job from you, and then backing out when you DO call!
Am I doing something wrong here? If so, someone please direct me on what I need to do differently. Otherwise, I am convinced this city of 10,000 (a town to most of you hehe) is completely worthless during the summer.
How about mine? Well, my actual little town is very nice, but the larger city that I have to deal with is awful. Jobs are leaving here in droves- thousands lost in the last year and more going every single day. It rains- non stop. Constant, awful rain. Cold rain, even in June. Snow in the winter- loads of it.
North Carolina, here I come. I’m outta here. 31 years is 31 years too many.
Zette
I’ve driven through Rolla many times. Once I ran out of gas there on the side of Hwy 44, and easily got a ride to and from the Mobil gas station off the Hwy 67 exit w/o even sticking out my thumb. (I was a broke college kid, and I only had a Mobil gas card). So my one Rolla experience = good.
lil, i think that when they say, “don’t call us, we’ll call you,” they most definitely will NOT call you. Just a helpful hint. Oh, and Seattle is pretty dandy, i agree Kamandi…although it is the city in which most people commit suicide…interesting.
I hear you about the part-time job, LilShieste. I’m having the same problem here in Calgary. I think the problem here is that people are so freakin’ Type-A that they have no concept of why anyone would want to work anything less than 50 hours a week. And then there’s the whole “we only like to take advantage of employees, not help them in any way” thing - how can they take full advantage of you as an employee if you’re only working 20 hours and getting paid for 20 hours? Other than the work situation and the traffic and the housing prices and the cost of living prices and the increasing level of hostility here and having every unemployed person in Canada showing up here and the out-of-control capitalism, I don’t have too many complaints about Calgary.
I love my city. I’m a die-hard Angeleno to the bone. I smile whenever I see that skyline.
Too bad I’m living in exile behind the Orange Curtain. I like my university and all, but the city of Irvine sucks greasy dripping donkey balls. It is a pretentious vacuum that tries to suck all signs of intelligence, tolerance, and interest out of every person to enter it. And Gods help you if you don’t have a car, because th’ain’t no possible way to have a social life within walking distance.
I misspent 10 months of my youth in Rolla and absolutely loved every minute of it. Hie yourself down Kingshighway and eat a MaidRite burger and think of me. MaidRite is AWESOME.
I’m not sure what kind of part-time job you’re looking for, but unless you have your heart set on something at least semi-professional, Rolla is jam-packed full of every kind of fast-food joint in existence. I wish I could be more help, but I was 15 when I lived there, and at the time fast food was pretty much the limit of my career options. I do seem to recall, though, that just to get a lousy job cashiering at a greasy little burger chain we’ll call Hardons (We’re out to bend you over!), I was forced to make numerous trips in there, requesting to speak to managers and asking everyone in sight if anyone had had a chance to look at my application yet. In other words, I literally had to STALK the Hardons managers just to get a job slinging fries.
At least you have parts of your state to be proud of. I see few if any reasons why I’d want to return to Connecticut after college. For a good view of what Connecticut is like, go here. The sad part is, more than 40 of those apply to me.
Dragonblink: Stop your whining. You can drive for an hour or two and be “home”. I have to drive for a few days, or buy a plane ticket to get to my real “home” (Glendale or Sunland). So. Stop. Whining! I’d be so happy if I could be in the Orange Curtain. I’d be able to get to Yosemite in 5-6 hours or so, I could drop by the Glendale Galleria now and then, and Life Would be Good Again.
I currently live in a mediocre midwestern town. I don’t hate all of it, but it’s not L.A., so it automatically sucks.
The daughter of a friend (native to this area) says she hates it here. But she’s never really been anywhere else (except for a quick visit to NYC just recently). She’s never seen mountains. She just briefly saw the ocean while in NYC. She doesn’t realize that most mid-sized cities and towns suck in their own way. Hell, even L.A. sucks too (in its own way) but I love it anyway, because it’s my home. And I love the things it has going for it. I would think that most towns have things that are going for them, if you know where to look.
I’ve driven through Rolla dozens of times as well. The only time I’ve ever stopped was this one time, on my way back to St.Louis from visiting my sister in Dallas. I was…ummmm “tired”…yeah “tired” and cold. The moon roof was still in the hatch and it was about 30 degrees out. Me and my friend were wondering why it was so fricken cold. That was the only part of the trip home that I can remember. Anyway, Rolla sucks. As yosemitebabe said, EVERY town sucks in its own way. I hated living anywhere I lived in the south. People from there seem to like it. I’m from the St.Louis area but you couldnt pay me enough to move back there. Ok you could PAY me enough, but there would be no reason for anyone to pay me that much. I live in Omaha now. Most people I know (natives) hate Omaha and think that everywhere else must be better. Its not, every place sucks.
dead0man
