if you're not a penguin...shut it - Floating My OWN Boat v.2

It has occurred to me, or actually, DID occur to me this morning through 3.5 MIND NUMBING hours at the recruitment centre listening to the rusted wheels turn that maybe I should explain that whole "did I mention I enlisted" post.

I don't know if I mentioned that I'd been looking around for a part time job?

MONEY! GIVE ME MONEY! IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY!

Everyone sort of pushed for me to use the bartending experience or do the waitress thing but frankly, I just don't have it in me to be that nice to other people on top of the day job. I'm sure you can all agree with that, these days.

I've always wanted to learn to be a lineman. You know, one of those telephone repair / climb the pole people? Yeah. Weird, I know. But, lets face it, I'm in telecommunications and my job used to be technical and now it's all about project freakin' management. Which is fine - it's only a year. But it's project freakin' management. Bleurgh.

BUT (you knew that was coming, hey?) there aren't really any other countries ready to go full on business VOIP (voice over internet) and I've been wanting a little more practical skills that would afford me some absolute mad portability to well, every country where I could possibly want someone to give me a 'real' job.

So, telecommuniations. Lineman. Switch installation. Trunking. Get in there and get those hands all grubby. Climb things! Get in one of those bucket trucks and play with the controls!

Of course, the only way to do that would be to change jobs, move to a more expensive place, spend a couple years slogging through and shit, I just don't have the time for that, yanno? I'd about given up, really, until suddenly - THERE IT WAS!

Canadian Forces. Reserves. Communications Squadron. Which pays shite (it's still MONEY!) but the training! Freaking beautiful. And BASIC! I'd be in great shape! And, yes, I don't have to go anywhere if I don't want to. And I can quit anytime. Cause it's just a part-time job. That will pay to teach me the very thing I want so much to learn!

So, I guess that what I'm trying to say is - this morning I completed the first round of testing (aptitude) to become Private Jenjamin.

God help us all.

(oh but can you imagine? An endless WELL of stories! A plethora of military puns! I already have at least three stories percolating from this morning alone! The things I do to keep all of you entertained, I tell ya.)

do you believein what you seemotionless wheelnothing is realwasting my timein the waiting line

do you believe
in what you see
motionless wheel
nothing is real
wasting my time
in the waiting line