Unemployment Blues

Recently got involved with a staffing/recruiting agency that's been getting me temp jobs, mostly in data entry. I worked for a couple days at a hospital last week. This week I had an interview for a two-week (!) position at a mining company, but didn't get it.

Temp jobs make me much more conscious of my existence as a wage slave. It's like, "no, you can't make a living here or anything, but we're happy to buy your labour-power for a week!"

Sometimes I feel like I'd like to go back to school and get my PhD, but the prospect of going thousands and thousands of dollars into debt, only to come out and face renewed unemployment, makes me think twice.

A third year English student from my alma mater called me tonight to ask for money on behalf of the university. My response was a no-brainer: "As you know, I was an English major, and am therefore 'between jobs' right now."