It's a living

[Happygun]

I can now say this with full conviction.

San Francisco is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live (t)here.

Rent is just as absurd as the media makes it out to be. A crappy single bedroom apartment will easily run over $3,000/month. An apartment downtown? If you have to ask you can't afford it. Traffic is bad but parking is even worse. Public transport is so-so and occasionally horrid. Everything here is expensive, inconvenient, crowded and worn-down.

In ten years only tech-bros, wealthy hipsters, foreign investors and townies with rent-controlled apartments will actually live here. They can keep it. Sorry, but I am not leaving my heart in San Francisco.

[Happygun]

...So, yeah. It turns out I don't have a job after all.

No, I wasn't fired on my first week. I don't want to go into the details of what happened beyond saying it turned out the CEO of the company I was going to work for has a criminal background. As in, he recently embezzled $37,000 from a local school, among other things. I'm not in any trouble, I'm not at fault (beyond perhaps failing to do a bit more research on the employer), there's no chance of me being arrested, but the job in Sacramento did turn out to be a bust.

I'm still moving back to Sacramento this Friday and will be staying with my parents. Again. They're more than happy to let me stay with them, but I can't help but feel like a bit of a failure. I have a Ph.D. in a hard science with five publications, three of which I am first author, and two years postdoctoral experience and I can't find a job.

This is the new job market, folks. This is the new economy.

[Ganthan]

Get to work on making the Sexy Catgirl Housemates and you'll be on easy street. I'd happily pay top dollar for a six and a half foot anthro lioness with beach ball breasts and can bench 500 pounds to serve as my personal housekeeper, guardian and snoo snoo toy. I can't think of any way that would turn out bad.

[Happygun]

[Happygun]

...And now I finally have a full-time Research Associate position at company in a location I like. What do I do? It's an agritech business that tests grapevines and other crops for diseases; we're close to Napa valley, so there' s quite a bit of demand for this service. I test samples and help develop new assays and disease resistant crops.

So, whenever you get drunk, you're welcome.

[bar1scorpio]

That's great news for us lushes. (okay, I don't drink wine.. or beer... I dig the occasional Hard Cider, though)

I would have put this more simply, but the chat doesn't have a "Like" button on comments.. or +1... That's a problem with furaffinity as well.