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I hate newspaper writing, and journalism as a whole. We have a local paper and everything, it's really retarded. I struggled in Newspaper class in high school because I would always lie and embelish things, and put in jokes that weren't easily identifiable as jokes. So sometimes they would get past the teacher, but I would get in trouble for it later when someone else brought it to her attention.

One guy I know (my age) does record reviews online. I suspect he doesn't get paid for it though, as no one cares and he only listens to jam bands.

I'm doing manual labor because I didn't want to work in customer service. The problem with my job is that it doesn't really fit my idea of manual labor because it's the easiest job in the world, and we just stand in one place all day, hunched over our tables, punching out magnets. It does a number on my back because I have scoliosis and my back gets really aggravated whenever it's in the same position for a certain period of time. A few times when I've been there, we've had to work on the same order all day (usually we work on many orders throughout the day, which is easier on my back because you're sort of switching up the motions you have to do, because not all magnets are the same obviously), and when we work on the same order all day, the pain in my back is unbearable and I really feel like throwing up. So instead of getting my back fixed which I don't think is possible, I am just going to get a different job. But anyway, when I originally got this job, they told me that I would be doing a lot of heavy lifting and moving around, which isn't true at all.

So I'll probably go into customer service. When you're 18 and just out of high school, it doesn't matter what skills you have. No employer is going to care unless you have a college degree in it. I'm not complaining, that's just the way it is. Us degree-less people are going to have to take the unskilled jobs. I can't expect anyone to give me a job in anything that I actually have an interest in just because I tell them I have an interest in it (and even if I'm good at it, that doesn't mean anything either).

Oh, and our magnet factory is supposedly the biggest one in the country, or so I've been told. It is called Magnet. We work on a lot of different things, not just magnets, but most things are magnet-related at least. We worked on an enormous order for Rolling Stone magazine a while ago. And various sporting teams (this time of the year it's been pro baseball). But there are also smaller orders for business card magnets and such. There is a wide range of stuff.