veryshy
Well-known member
No this isnt another post about my emotions and how I feel all crumby inside.
This is a post about building my life into something. See Im a nobody. I pretty much dropped out of school in the 9th grade. I have no drivers license or ID. No job and a broken down car.
I had a drivers license for a about a year after I turned 18, then they took it from me for not paying a ticket (was broke). Shortly after that I got a DUI for having smoked some pot before driving. That was kinda the nails in the coffin on the drivers license. That was 2000. I still drive (when I have somewhere to go and a vehicle to go there in) because I live way the hell out here in the sticks, theres no bus or taxi service and bicycling is dangerous on the small curvy back country roads around here. Besides the nearest city is like 15 miles away.
I used to not have this much trouble finding a job. I dont know if its the fact that the ecomony is going down the tubes or if Im just appearing less and less desireable as an employee. I havent been job hunting in at least a month (because of the broke down car) but at one point I filled out about 25-30 applications in a 1 week period. No one called back. Not even grocerey stores that hire mentally handicapped people will not hire me. Taco Bell would not return my phonecalls! Ive never had this hard of a time finding a job, I guess when your 24 and dont have a frigging thing to show for it, they kinda frown on hiring you.
One day while feeling like shit I decided Im gonna get my GED, then people will hire me! I get online look up GED, look for a testing center in my area. $40 to take the test, plus you've gotta have ID. I dont even have my birth certificate, I cant cash a check or open a bank account or anything. So I send off to california to get my birth cert., they send me some POS WORTHLESS birth certificate that says NOT FOR ID USE all over it. What did they think I wanted the damn thing so i can hang it on my wall? What else am I gonna use a BC for?
Apparently because of "the terrorists" you now have to send the state of california some kind of 3 page document signed by a notery that affirms who you are. Problem is in order to prove your who you are YOU NEED ID! So already theres 30 bucks thrown down the drain just so i can get a "wall hanger" birth certificate. Now another 30 bucks, PLUS possibly visiting a notery public trying to prove to them I am who I say I am and whatever they charge.
This is where Im at now. Waiting to see if my second request for a non decorative birth certificate goes through.
Once I get this BC. I take it to the courthouse and get to pay another 10 or 15 bucks and have an ID made. Once I have the ID I can take the GED test (assuming I can hustle 40 bucks without getting a job, otherwise getting a job is first).
Hopefully sometime before I take the test I'll find a job. But I still gotta get this car fixed before I can do that, then probably get the ID too (since most jobs require ID).
Once I have the GED I can move on to see if I qualify for some kind of college grants, but since I probably owe the IRS money (havent filed taxes in years) I doubt they will give me anything.
Then, if I ever get that cleared up, just maybe I'll be working a job making enough money to get my drivers license back.
Well there you have it, my plan to at least somewhat better my life. It seems so easy, yet so distant.
This is a post about building my life into something. See Im a nobody. I pretty much dropped out of school in the 9th grade. I have no drivers license or ID. No job and a broken down car.
I had a drivers license for a about a year after I turned 18, then they took it from me for not paying a ticket (was broke). Shortly after that I got a DUI for having smoked some pot before driving. That was kinda the nails in the coffin on the drivers license. That was 2000. I still drive (when I have somewhere to go and a vehicle to go there in) because I live way the hell out here in the sticks, theres no bus or taxi service and bicycling is dangerous on the small curvy back country roads around here. Besides the nearest city is like 15 miles away.
I used to not have this much trouble finding a job. I dont know if its the fact that the ecomony is going down the tubes or if Im just appearing less and less desireable as an employee. I havent been job hunting in at least a month (because of the broke down car) but at one point I filled out about 25-30 applications in a 1 week period. No one called back. Not even grocerey stores that hire mentally handicapped people will not hire me. Taco Bell would not return my phonecalls! Ive never had this hard of a time finding a job, I guess when your 24 and dont have a frigging thing to show for it, they kinda frown on hiring you.
One day while feeling like shit I decided Im gonna get my GED, then people will hire me! I get online look up GED, look for a testing center in my area. $40 to take the test, plus you've gotta have ID. I dont even have my birth certificate, I cant cash a check or open a bank account or anything. So I send off to california to get my birth cert., they send me some POS WORTHLESS birth certificate that says NOT FOR ID USE all over it. What did they think I wanted the damn thing so i can hang it on my wall? What else am I gonna use a BC for?
Apparently because of "the terrorists" you now have to send the state of california some kind of 3 page document signed by a notery that affirms who you are. Problem is in order to prove your who you are YOU NEED ID! So already theres 30 bucks thrown down the drain just so i can get a "wall hanger" birth certificate. Now another 30 bucks, PLUS possibly visiting a notery public trying to prove to them I am who I say I am and whatever they charge.
This is where Im at now. Waiting to see if my second request for a non decorative birth certificate goes through.
Once I get this BC. I take it to the courthouse and get to pay another 10 or 15 bucks and have an ID made. Once I have the ID I can take the GED test (assuming I can hustle 40 bucks without getting a job, otherwise getting a job is first).
Hopefully sometime before I take the test I'll find a job. But I still gotta get this car fixed before I can do that, then probably get the ID too (since most jobs require ID).
Once I have the GED I can move on to see if I qualify for some kind of college grants, but since I probably owe the IRS money (havent filed taxes in years) I doubt they will give me anything.
Then, if I ever get that cleared up, just maybe I'll be working a job making enough money to get my drivers license back.
Well there you have it, my plan to at least somewhat better my life. It seems so easy, yet so distant.
