August 3rd, 2007

Subject : Of Con and Job Hunting
Posted Date: : Aug 3, 2007 6:21 PM

Well, Comic Con is now over.

This is the first year in a long while were I had almost no money, yet I still had a fairly good time.

I met some celebs, I bought some toys, and I managed to finally meet up with members of the ZONE. All good fun.

But Con its self kinda left me a bit dissapointed. It seems that with all the problems that they fixed after complaining over the years, they created a few new ones.

The problems is that Con is trying too hard to focus on MOVIES, not just the comic related ones. And they're kissing the collective asses of the studios and it just kinda brought down the atmosphear of the show. As my friend sergio said, there are people here who are here to just be here. Which is true. There were so many "FIRST TIMERS" at con this year. Not that thats a problem, as everyone should go at least once, but the problem with many of them was that almost all of these first timers had no idea what half the shit there was. They were there because they heard some celebs were going to be there and thought that they were going to meet them. Hall H is the biggest bane upon the exisitance of Con, as thats were all the big shit happens, and thats all everyone gose and sees.

Hopefully next year, things will balance out. More comics, less room taken up by pointless booths or booths that have almost nothing (marvel was the biggest culprit of this)

Now, I continue my Job hunt. Its looking less and less like I'm going to Europe now because I havent been able to find a job that pays decent (or a fucking job at all) I've submitted over 3 dozen applications in the last 4 months and nothing. Its really irking me in the wrong way and Im starting to get pissed. My family has been riding my ass, acting like I havent been trying. They blamed my "LONG HAIR AND BEARD" for not getting a Job (which is BS as A) I've only had 2 interveiws in the last 4 months B) my friend CHARLES managed to get at least 2 job offers and a fucking job and he looks like an AMISH rapist.

So to appease them, I shaved my beard to a goattee and cut my hair. But troubles still persist. I'm down to selling off parts of my collection (comics are the first to go, as they are the easiest to replace) Im hoping Karma will kick in and I'll land something soon.