Sam was sitting in the pub, at a table with Randy, a friend he hadn't seen in a while.
"So how's the job search going?" Randy asked.
"It's going, all right. You know, lately I feel it's not the lack of jobs that's the problem. I think the problem is me."
"What you mean."
"Well, look. There's a shitload of jobs out there for the taking. I'm more than qualified - overqualified for some of them. But I fight some ridiculous inner sense of elitism, or classism. Like OH, yeah, with my degree I could get a job in the box factory, but I'd prefer not to. And the rest of the jobs I'm just straight-up NOT qualified for because I don't have the experience, skills, knowledge. And as I wait for this elusive 'perfect job' to come up in my half-assed search, I can just feel myself becoming more and more lazy. I can hear what I'm thinking like somebody else is saying it. And that somebody else sounds like a total asshole. It's like I'm turning into a complete selfish, immature asshole. A Fucking BRAT, really. If it weren't for that, I'd walk right into the box factory and say 'train me. I am a lump of clay. A good, obedient worker.'" Sam sighed.
Randy looked into Sam's eyes and took a long sip at his pint.
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