I wrote this a while ago. I was really bored at work and just thinking about things so ended up with this. I don't know if it's good or not, I just wanted a place to put it. Plus, a few years from now I kind of want to remember what working this job was like. I'll probably end up revising this. Maybe expand on some of the ideas because some of my thoughts jump around here. We shall see.
Sitting in a chair my feet barely hit the ground
You know those office chair the ones that spin around
Pressing computer keys: number dash dash delete
You can call this boring I wouldn’t disagree
Too any people checking over my shoulder
Like I'm a child waiting for mother’s shift to be over
I got this job thinking imma be driving a rover
Unlucky me please someone hand me a clover
Landed my first interview in the end of May
Mamma said this will look good on my resume
Too bad they cheaper than McDonald’s
Got me feeling like I’m Ronald
Minimum wage paid forcing myself to stay awake
I could have sworn I was getting paid today (Do I get paid
today?)
I make money and then owe
If only my tears could grow it
I wouldn’t wake up with anxiety
Hoping each morning wasn’t the last fight in me
This is life, they tell you this how you do it
Bite your tongue and live through it
This is what people define a career this is what I call
living life in fear
I feel like we live to work because we're always taught that money and a career is suppose to be life. I mean what other reason do we go to school other than to prepare for a job? You spend most of your like studying for a job and than you spend the rest of it working. There is always a fear of not making money therefore we get stuck working low wage jobs just so we can say "at least I have a job." We take these random jobs and people expect us to be grateful about them like they actually pay us well. I'm well aware that my job will never hire me as a full time worker. It's cheaper to keep me, a part-time teenager, than to hire someone full time. I don't even get paid the same amount as every one else. I do better than the guy working full time, but business is business and I'll never be payed half as great.
