Went in on Wednesday evening, but the guy who supposedly covered the job-placement part of the school wasn't in. I had the guy who was give me his guarantee that the job-placement guy would call me around noon on Thursday.
Of course, the guy never did. I called the school around 6:00 in the evening (which is when they open up) and reached job-placement guy, who told me that he was waiting on some calls from prospective hiring places and that he'd give me a call back tomorrow (today).
Tomorrow, tomorrow, there's always tomorrow. It's only a day away. So close, and yet so far.
My father is under the impression that, now that the school has my money, they're going to do nothing as far as job-placement goes, since they have no reason to.
Though I'm cynical, I'm not buying into that myself, but I'm getting the impression that the guy has gotten no definite responses from the places out there, and instead of flat out telling me that this is so, he's going to keep saying "tomorrow" until something turns up. Suffice it to say, this bothers me. I want a timeframe, I want to know what I'm working around. I don't want all of this "tomorrow" crap and have it all up in the air.
Legally, I'm allowed to work as a bartender at the age of 18. However, there are a whole lot of places where I'm not legally allowed to set foot in unless I'm working there or have an "in", which the bartending school was supposed to give me but hasn't....
Oi.
Meanwhile, this DC3 club is drawing more and America-hating international students. Not the "crazy A-rab terrorist" types, mind you, but the international students that are bitter that they're in a country which thumbs its nose at the rest of the world.
You'd think a place like DC3 wouldn't have much of an international community, but in thinking that you'd be mistaken. For a community college, DC3 is big, safe, and has a relatively large academic program, and this draws in plenty international folks from Philly, New Jersey, and Delaware. There are Japanese students looking for cheap, back-up business degrees incase they get laid off from their jobs back in Japan; there is a rather large Indian community seeking nursing degrees; we've got several people out of Hong Kong, a fair amount out of eastern Europe, and to top it all off, there is an absolutely huge group of people coming from west Africa.
Downright crazy, it all is, that they'd flock to here, but to each their own.
I have a killer caffeine-withdrawal headache right now. I didn't take any this morning and I forgot to bring some with me, and besides the headache there remains the fact that I'm terribly sleepy. God damn drug addict, I am, and this whole cold turkey thing does not please me.
Meanwhile, calls to make and people to reach and a club to run.