Things are bad...

I walk into supply houses, delis, convenient stores and shoot the sh*t with people all day. All I hear is how bad everything is because of the economy. I hear that people are lucky to have work. My teacher in the vocational school I go to said "Kids are graduating college and there are no jobs out there that require a degree." I'm one of those people. I'm currently a plumber's apprentice and I've been so since I was in the sixth grade simply because I was always interested in doing something else. I have a BA in communications and I hope to use that job someday. I'm to the point now where I'm seriously considering getting an internship or volunteering just to get some experience that doesn't envolve using wrenches and getting dirty. I really want to be a writer first and foremost. I'm trying to use any outlet I can to write. I'm writing anything: poems, blogs, stories, songs. I'm doing it just to build a body of work. It's taking a really long time because I'm not always motivated. Once I get rolling, it's like opening a flood gate though. I'm not even going to wait for the end of my vocational school semester. I'm going to jump on my search for one of these unpaid positions and see if there's anyway I can do it during the evening hours. I want to get my foot in the door some how and when I finally do, I'm going to wear a steel toe boot....