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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 8 2005, 06:11 PM (338 Views) | |
| Matt Frost | Aug 8 2005, 06:11 PM Post #1 |
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Fuckin' SLAYER!!
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I'm on delivery today, engine light flashes. On the way back I stop and check out the engine. Grabbed the dipstick to check the oil and the whole tube snaps off. No auto parts store has them, no dealerships have the item in stock, and I don't know if there's a piece floating in my oil pan now. And a gripe about the board, just because I am crabby- the flood control sucks. 45 seconds is an eternity when I am at work on the high speed connection. It would be one thing if you had to wait to post, but it won't even let you type the message. But, yeah. I am seriously considering a career as a leg-breaker. I am sick of having no money. I am sick of seeing people who have money who don't fucking deserve it, who don't work for it, who have everything handed to them. For those who say money doesn't make you happy, bullshit. Money would solve every problem I have right now. Maybe I should start asking everyone I know for a dollar. I know a lot of people. I'm just sick of having to scrape by and be up to my ass in debt only to have things get worse, never better. |
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| Frozenkilt | Aug 8 2005, 06:41 PM Post #2 |
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Online douche. GOLD! I need more Gold
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Lousy Monday. Start a website, post a link to PayPal that says "GIVE ME A DOLLAR!" I'd donate to that. Soon you too will have to traverse the path of 'personal trainer' for additional coin. Which is still better than selling your ass for cheap booze. - Sean |
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| MaxPower | Aug 8 2005, 06:41 PM Post #3 |
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I heard a really good line about this type of thing once. "They say being rich doesn't make you happy. Well being poor hasn't been making me happy either." And yes being broke all the time sucks. |
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| MaxPower | Aug 8 2005, 06:42 PM Post #4 |
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| spacemountain2000 | Aug 8 2005, 08:31 PM Post #5 |
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Now you're boring us
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I heard about a guy who started a website about getting donations or he would kill a bunny. Dude make about 3 grand from what I hear. Don't know how true it is, but there's enough peopel out there that would send money for something like that. You could always got the "Ebay the haunted dipstick" route, too. |
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| sqeezemasterflash | Aug 8 2005, 08:51 PM Post #6 |
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Now you're boring us
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That one was a hoax. Here's the link Save Toby I like the give me a dollar idea. Now I just need a website. |
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| Caber McJock | Aug 8 2005, 08:57 PM Post #7 |
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I agree
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I used to do that when working the door on a busy night. Just ask everyone for a buck. Usually made enough to eat afterwards. |
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| Matt Frost | Aug 8 2005, 09:21 PM Post #8 |
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Well, every cloud has a silver lining. Found out my car is still under warranty, but I won't have it until tomorrow. Had to have it towed to the dealership. A friend helped me get it in there on the quick. My boss is lending me his car to finish my shift. I am glad I have such friends, but I really hate depending on anyone else. Still, I am grateful that they were there for me. Thought about doing the personal training thing too, but I don't know if I'd want to cheapen something I love doing so much. If I could do it and train people the way I have been trained, that's one thing, but I would never work for a commercial gym where the emphasis was on selling memberships and supplements and training was secondary. No way. |
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| Frozenkilt | Aug 8 2005, 09:49 PM Post #9 |
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All depends on how you advertise yourself. Advertising yourself as a trainer for functional strength and performance as opposed to appearance might work. Especially if you have an in to a group kind of dependant on their shape (firefighters, military, etc) - Sean |
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| Expedite | Aug 8 2005, 10:35 PM Post #10 |
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Hey, Big Guy! I'd hire you for one training a week... Event training or just plain butt kicking...
:unsure: If you go for the bunny hoax, you could collect the money, and then EAT the bunny anyway, and save a buck on that! AND still go foth with the torpedo-business... Too much money won't kill ya... On the serious side; I REALLY know what you're saying about how shitty it is beeing broke all the time... and having to fight every fucking month....
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| spacemountain2000 | Aug 9 2005, 04:25 PM Post #11 |
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Glad to see everything working out. Maybe if you got a squirrel... |
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| MaxPower | Aug 9 2005, 04:37 PM Post #12 |
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Post the dipstick on Ebay saying its a alien anal prober. Some nutjob will buy then. |
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| Matt Frost | Aug 9 2005, 05:40 PM Post #13 |
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Trev, if you want it that bad I will just mail it to you. |
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| MaxPower | Aug 9 2005, 06:22 PM Post #14 |
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All right!!! :rock |
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| spacemountain2000 | Aug 9 2005, 07:15 PM Post #15 |
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or a hamster... |
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| Matt Frost | Aug 9 2005, 07:33 PM Post #16 |
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The dealership called me back a little while ago, they were going to try and fuck me over and charge me for the repair. I kept my calm on the phone but blew up afterwards, kicking the wet floor sign and shattering it into about 7 pieces. Then I went back and punched a steel door about five or six times and told the guy next door that I wanted to paint the walls of the service shop with their blood. Few things piss me off more than being fucked over. Don't tell me it's under warranty and then tell me you're charging me for it, fucktards. But then they called back and said they were going to cover it, but it probably won't be fixed until tomorrow morning, which means I won't be able to get to Iron Sport (or any gym) tonight unless I can find a ride. |
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| WildGorillaMan | Aug 10 2005, 01:03 AM Post #17 |
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Money can't buy love, but it can rent some really good looking "escorts." |
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| Matt Frost | Aug 10 2005, 03:11 AM Post #18 |
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Got my car back and just got home from the local YMCA. All seems well now, and I just have to buy a new sign for the store. Thinking about getting some anger management training. I've been getting way too stressed lately and I always think very dark and distrurbing thoughts when it happens. |
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| spacemountain2000 | Aug 10 2005, 04:55 AM Post #19 |
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Now you're boring us
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OR, you could channel that aggression into a lucrative career as a mob hitman. |
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| Frozenkilt | Aug 10 2005, 01:40 PM Post #20 |
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Matt, it looks like a lot of the tension in your life is based on money or the lack thereof. Might be time to seriously start exploring some career options. It might mean going in for some training or something, but if you look at the big picture that would take a lot of pressure off you in the future. On a personal note, when I hit university it was always with the plan that I'd have a career when I got out. A lot of guys I knew took stuff that they were really into or thought would be fun. I honestly didn't. I had no real interest in engineering, but I knew I'd have a job at the end of it. Now I actually have a job I enjoy that is directly related to what I took in university and I have the time and money to endulge my interests. A lot of guys who endulged their interests early on and for too long are now trying to find ways to make the kind of money I do and don't have time for anything else. Short term pain for long term gain, buddy. Maybe I'm off base on this one, and if I am feel free to tell me to fuck off, but it might be time to seriously look at what you want to do and what you can do to get there. - Sean |
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| Matt Frost | Aug 10 2005, 02:07 PM Post #21 |
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My main thing is, everything I am good at and enjoy doing, pays dick. I'm a pretty good drummer, but it doesn't pay unless you're a rock star or a teacher (and since I am self-taught I wouldn't begin to know how to teach someone else). I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm the kind of person that if I am not enjoying what I do, I stop doing it. Maybe I should bite the bullet and start studying to be a personal trainer. Even if I don't do it full time it can be a nice supplemental income. |
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| Caber McJock | Aug 10 2005, 03:34 PM Post #22 |
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That's me. I wasted all my time in Uni with shit like English. Not that I could have been an engineer or something anyway, but I sure as fuck could have joine the fire department, probably right after high school. oh well. I have a pretty decent job now, but it wasn't until I had the motivation of an oncoming family to support that I got off my ass and made it happen. Until then, I was in Matt's boat... I remember paying a portion of my rent in change for fuck's sake. Sean has good advice there Matt. In the meantime, a second PT job, preferably one that pays cash so you're not fucked come tax time, could be a short term solution. |
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| Frozenkilt | Aug 10 2005, 03:54 PM Post #23 |
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Which was my first point. Find something that pays the bills and leaves you a little extra and still leaves you enough time to do what you enjoy. Take care of the necessity stuff first and you can find it a lot easier to do what you like. Also, one of the best pieces of advice I ever got was this: Never confuse who you are with what you do for a living. Whenever you meet people, the usual question is "What do you do?" So I tell them "I'm a scottish heavy games athlete." The next question is usually "Thats your JOB?" and I say "Oh! What do I do for a living? I'm an engineer." Engineer is my job and I even like it. But it ISN'T who I am. There are people out there who get to do exactly what they love doing and get paid for it. I'm not one of them. And neither are 99% of people. And you can get all poetic and shit about not wanting to be another cog in The Machine, but simply put, in Western society, money talks. So the choices are basically this: find a job that pays enough to let you do what you want on your evenings and weekends or turn what you love to do into a career. - Sean |
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| Matt Frost | Aug 11 2005, 01:44 AM Post #24 |
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Or I could never shave again, live in a hut in Montana, and mail deadly little presents to people who represent everything I hate in this world... Yeah, you have a point. I'm just spread too thin now between working 6 days a week, lifting, and once in a while practicing or playing a show. I couldn't fit in another PT job. And if I didn't owe my boss 4 grand then finding a different job would be an option, but he loaned me money to buy my car so I can't just quit on the guy now. I like your outlook, Sean. And I wouldn't mind being a "cog in the machine" as long as I didn't hate what I did. It's just finding that thing. I wouldn't mind a solid 9 to 5, or 7 to 3 or 4, whatever, 5 days a week, as long as I could train and not be a broke motherfucker. But, ah, my skill set is a little lacking. Pathetic. 32 and I have no idea what I want to do with the rest of my life. |
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| Frozenkilt | Aug 11 2005, 02:20 AM Post #25 |
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Online douche. GOLD! I need more Gold
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Hardly pathetic. There are just so many choices these days and not as many traditional roles as there were in previous generations. Settle up with your boss and start looking around. Who knows what you might find out there, man. - Sean |
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