So I've been unemployed for several months now.. Hardly even seems like it because I filled my days with Twitch (as a moderator for a few channels) and playing Destiny (as a Sherpai (Sherpa and Senpai)). It felt like work most of the time because after 3 years Destiny just isn't fun anymore.
There are good times I mean when I can play with people I met online through Destiny, but they are so few and any good times had with them are so far between that there's only the groups I have to play with from destinylfg on a daily basis.. which very often are shit. The newest DLC happens to be interesting but it also feels way too short and pointless when considered against the Taken King DLC. That other one was huge and did have many activities that pulled people together and when they didn't struggle so bad they'd just quit, at least we could have fun getting it done by working as a team.
Oddly enough the new DLC was supposed to require more teamwork but doesn't. Everyone is supposed to have their own part to play and job to do.. wouldn't you know it though but it seems to allow half the team or more to be lazy and the other have needs to do most of the work. I mean I could slack and just do my bit but when there are several activities to complete on a daily basis (running Xbox and PS4) that isn't happening. I can't sit there and blow over 3 hours with people that just don't know what they are doing.
What was supposed to be great game design falls flat when you're more practiced and can cover for slackers.
But that's Destiny.. it is grinding for shit you already have or shit you have to dismantle anyway (because you already have it and don't need it, or because it doesn't have good enough stats to be worth holding on to.
Currently the only thing I have left on both platforms is the hard raid ship. It feels like Bungie just intentionally shits on people that no-life the game though because I can run the raid 40+ times and not get the ship while other people.. people that slacked the whole activity will get it.
Given that they don't care because they already have your money.. the ship can have a garbage drop rate and well I could keep trying to finally get fed up and quit.
They timed it so that this would have been the last week I would have tried to grind for that ship. I mean 50 runs and no ship.. they can go fuck themselves. BUT the winter event follows Iron Banner. So for the next two weeks I can at least grind for things I know I can get and pretty much say fuck the raid ship..
I'd spoken to my aunt last week about having no job and she's like just call UPS.
A day later they called back twice saying they needed people and I could do training the next day. The following Monday I'd have my first day.
Which was today. I'd set an alarm for 6am and only got a call from the dispatcher at 9am. But I'd only bothered to look outside after that.. only to find that the clear weather was done and there was a blanket of fresh snow.
Great. I mean shit, as one of the clients was saying have a good day, and I'm like its my first day.. It can't get much worse than near snowstorm conditions so might as well accept that it is slippery and nothing was going to go right.
I fell twice and slipped once and got my arm slammed in a door.. not while carrying anything.. just when trying to get back to the truck and into my monkey seat. Fun times but my driver wasn't terribly impressed. He was telling me to take my time and walk at a steady pace. I'm like I have two paces.. stopped and moving so I might as well jog or run while I can keep up that pace.
After a few hours of deliveries I'm like meh.. there's not that heavy lifting involved so a quick pace is better than trying to meter the day out.
The biggest hassles seem to be with driving the cars around on slippery roads and processing the parcels properly. It seems like doing that part efficiently is all about practice.
The fun part was seeing a few packages from Aldo. Delivering the shoes from the company that fired me is like.. why am I still helping these people..
So if this is the shittiest day I'll have due to weather.. great. It isn't any better or worse than any other job I've had.. and again, being able to hustle means it is hard to get bored. AND if I can tough out the coldest days of the year and last until mid-January they say I can just apply for work at the hub here in town which would be more steady work and would be a proper foot in the door.. not just being able to wear the uniform and run around.