You Can't Hire Me, I Quit!

So as many have already heard, I was hired to a payroll bookkeeping position at HR Block last Thursday. As many are also aware, a few hours after accepting the position, I learned that I would have to be taking 4 classes during the upcoming semester. If I were to attempt to both graduate on time and do this job, I would only have five days and nine evenings per month in which to complete my coursework; I would be up at 7 AM, working until 5, then going straight to class until 10 PM. I would then be waking up about eight hours after I got home. I would get three evenings a week (Friday through Sunday) plus every other Saturday and three Sundays per month to study for exams or work on assignments. Frankly, that is not enough time to ensure passing grades in all my classes even if I was sure to be well rested and prepared.
Since I am unwilling to spend another seven months waiting to graduate, I did the only thing I could do. I explained to the nice people who had just given me a job during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression that I would be unavailable starting in January. I feel sick acknowledging that. The job was only seasonal and would have ended in April anyway, but it still would have been great experience and a good resume builder.

So for the time being, I’m working through November, and we’ll figure out what’s next afterwards. Contrary to the above, I’m seriously contemplating extending my stay in Kansas City through the next Fall. Six more months of experience is a lot to pass up, especially in this economy. Well, that’s enough bitching about having to choose between having a Master’s degree or a job, seeing as both are opportunities that I would have killed for a year ago.

Halloween weekend was fantastic. We downed an entire handle of Everclear. I went to a very fine party in the loop, and saw a man in a Shriner costume. He had even built himself a car. Nobody got my Boondock Saints costume. Daylight Savings Time has never come on a better morning.

Evan’s house is fantastic. It’s spatious, it has guest bedrooms, and the view in his back yard is gorgeous. I predict it will be the site of many good times in the years to come.

Theo, next time I come we’ll celebrate your birthday proper. I will demand some Brutal Legend multiplayer out of you.

Dave, I hope to see you in January, if I make it out.