I'm applying for jobs. How do I explain that I'm applying (and willing to do) jobs I'm over-qualified for, because I'm sick of capitalism?

How do I explain that I'm applying (and willing to do) jobs I'm over-qualified for, because I'm sick of capitalism?

The applicant is eager to share her skillset with a mission driven organization.

Dana, are you wedded to FTE?

If not, send me an email. I know the place I'm contracting through (and the project itself) has outposts in your area.

I'm so fucking annoyed with people right now. So many people. But the worst offender is my best friend's daughter. She got caught stealing. From the place where her mother works. They are so lucky the boss really likes her mom, otherwise she would have lost her job. As it is, the girl is not allowed to ever come into the store again. (Which considering she normally stays at the store after school for two hours is going to cause a bit of a problem for them. There's nowhere else she can stay except the McDonald's across the road (or sit in the car in the cold), and then she'll spend all her allowance buying fries and milkshakes.) Also, when she got caught (by a woman who dislikes her and her mom, naturally), she called the woman who caught her a bitch "for making a scene! She didn't have to make such a BIG DEAL of it!" Holy Batman, people. I couldn't believe it. She is lucky she didn't get arrested! Worse, this is not the first time she's stolen stuff, and not even the first time she's stolen from her mom's store! It's just the first time she's gotten caught in the act. She knows better, she knows exactly what could happen if she steals. She does it anyway. I thought the stealing-stuff phase was over, but I guess not. She talks like she had no control over herself, but I know that's not true; she doesn't have a compulsion to steal. She's stealing things like dry shampoo, that she just wants to "try out" and she doesn't want to ask for the money because she knows her mom will say no. That's not a compulsion, that's a choice.

This girl is seventeen! She's never had a job (she blames her mom for that, but she's had plenty of chances to apply for jobs, she just doesn't. It's her mom's fault, she says, for not bringing her an application and helping her fill it out). She's never learned to drive. She's failing all her classes because she won't do the work. She's basically 13 except she's not 13, she's 17. She seems to be trying her best to make sure that she can stay a kid and live with mom and have mom take care of her, for the rest of her life, while she spends all her time on the internet. She's already been held back one year in school, and now it looks like she won't be graduating when she's 18, either.

Her mom is about to have a nervous breakdown. Whenever she tries to punish her or discipline her, the kid breaks something or sets something on fire, "accidentally". Her mom's afraid if she grounds her from the internet, the kid will set the house on fire. There's not really anything else she can do, the kid doesn't respond to consequences at all, she just does whatever she wants at the moment.

I don't even know what to say to her. Either of them. I'm so mad at the girl, and so upset for my friend. My friend is one of the most hard-working, trustworthy, self-reliant people I've ever met. I don't know how her youngest daughter turned out this way. I hope she'll grow up and take responsibility for herself and her life, but I'm really afraid that she won't, and then what happens?

Ugh. I'm sorry, I just needed to rant, and usually the person I rant to is my friend! I'm so worried for both of them, and there's nothing at all I can do. I have zero influence over the kid, and I'm 8 hours away.

How do I explain that I'm applying (and willing to do) jobs I'm over-qualified for, because I'm sick of capitalism?

I'm especially interested in this position because I am looking to make a significant change and believe my experience doing X would be a strong benefit for this position doing Y.

If only we could get y'all's excess snow out here to the Sierra somehow.

Apparently, our snow farms are full here, so it's not such a crazy idea?

Ugh, Zen, that sounds like a mess. I am confident that nearly all teenage fuck-ups eventually figure it out, though.

Zen, that's heartbreaking. I hope that girl grows the hell up before anything truly serious happens.

Have you furminated him, Anne?

Alas, the furminator pulls too much on the hair that's still attached, so he doesn't like it much. I use a slicker brush that does a very good job. And yes, I've been saving the fur to "play" with.

Oh, Zen, your poor friend. That sounds so hard.

Oh, man, it took about five minutes to remember how much I hate internal job websites. Why do you make me upload my resume AND fill out all of your stupid little fields?

This is a place that I had an account at less than a year ago, but I assume they have switched systems since then, because I could not log in with that same account.

Nothing since yesterday. Have you sent something since then?

Aww, bummer. I emailed yesterday seeing if you wanted to grab dessert. Next time!

Sometimes I'm worried that I'm crazy and making up my issues

Nope! San Diego is awash with pollen and things of that nature. All this stuff by the convention center was blooming. I'm also an asthmatic, with a hard trigger for perfume/cologne, so I was primed by the flowers into a slow moving asthma attack that lasted all afternoon, trapped in a windowless, ventless room with wafting clouds of scent.

if you have several people a day (or more than once a day) leaving their dogs' poo where it lands, that's a bunch of poo for maintenance to clean up.

it can get horrible. and it doubly sucks for those that do pick up poop, because you're constantly getting dirty looks for having a dog.