People try to put us down / just 'cause we get around
July 5, 2011
phill: so
phill: I was at a party on… saturday
andrew: at your house/
phill: no no
phill: we’re all sitting around
andrew: what?
phill: I’m telling you a story sheesh
andrew: ohhh
andrew: ok
phill: i’m setting up the cinema display for the movie
andrew: go go go
phill: and I forget the exact comment but it was something like
phill: “oh well, but isn’t Anna the only one here with a job?” (her bf, Luke, is unemployed)
phill: << uncomfortable silence >>
phill: “Well tons of people have jobs. Uh… doesn’t Mina have a job?”
phill: (there are like ten people sitting in this room)
phill: and I thought about it
phill: I think every person in that room was underemployed
phill: (Mina is a freelance editor and so has large bouts of idleness as it commonly happens)
andrew: how do they make rent
andrew: that’s our generation for you
phill: and I thought to myself, what a typical generation Y conversation
andrew: ther’es an inkling of a feeling in me that somehow feels there’s something good there though
andrew: our generation isn’t just fodder for the corporate machiens
phill: we don’t settle as easily
andrew: or something
andrew: ya
phill: Luke is borrowing money from his mom to make ends meet
phill: but when telling me about the places he’s waiting to hear back from, he was happy that they all seemed cool
andrew: and i don’t think our gen is just pissing it all away and wasting time
phill: well
phill: I certainly am
phill: I suspect so are most