Alright, so this post has no literary or written value besides the fact that I have to say something about what has just happened. Again, don't read this, I beg you, I am simply going to rant to let off steam.
I am a MC3 student here on campus, one of nine students on campus who participate in a program where Americorps pays us to do volunteer work in the community along with giving us an educational award. Now, I was all geared up for this. I was ready, I have volunteer opportunities a plenty around this area because, obviously I live only twenty minutes from Springfield and the fact that I'm an incredible networking agent. Needless to say, I was stoked, excited, ready to run as I knew what I was doing and I knew I could do it WELL. Then the bomb shell comes approximately 15 minutes ago. This entire time I was told that M3C students get paid to do this volunteer work, ok, I get it. I was pleasantly surprised when I was told this information because I was all worried about finding a job. (For those of you who don't know, I am paying college on my own. No parental help, no loans etc. I'm doing this on scholarships I have won and I intend for this all to be on me, as it should be.) Anyway, so I stopped looking for a job after I found out about this. Naively thinking that oh, I'm going to be fine now because I'm going to be getting minimum wage for volunteering. I have enough connections in the community that I could find enough volunteer work to keep me busy for a long long long time.
But now, the bombshell. Of course, things always go wrong. To quote someone else "Duh." Now I'm told that because I didn't take federal work study I cannot participate in the program. I WAS NEVER TOLD THIS!!! So now I've wasted an entire month which could've been spent finding a job. This really really worries me now because I've got to try and find a job with even less time now.... Great... I know I shouldn't be worried, I should just calm down and trust in the Lord to take care of me. However, this is very hard to do for someone such as myself who is such a spendthrift and inherently fiscally conscious. *Sigh* This just completely throws off my wonderfully orchestrated schedule. I suppose that IS the purpose of this though... to screw up my schedule and subsequently my day for today....
Oh well...
I guess this just means I go back to the overloaded schedule I had BEFORE coming to college... nice... stressful... back to good ol' antisocial, workaholic, living I see.
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