Supersize My Income

My college financial aid residual money is about spent up, and my mother says I need to get a job. "Even if it's just McDonalds or something," she says.

I went to the McDonalds by campus on Monday and I was hired without so much as an interview. Well, she did ask what size shirt I wear, which didn't really make a difference because all they had in stock were Smalls anyway and I am clearly no one's small... This was probably warning sign number one. I don't remember much of what happened next...She said something about $5 an hour [yes, five dollars] and everything else is a blur.

I've never made anything close to minimum wage in the almost 11 years I have been in the work force. My goodness, I miss the comfort of working in a cozy, technology-equipped office at my neighborhood nonprofit. It's so tempting right now to say fukk this college shit and go back to working full time and living comfortably. But then I remember that a boy can only make it so far without a stupid degree. All this knowledge, passion and experience I have, it'd be a crying shame if the only thing to keep me from a lucrative and influential career is my inpatience with higher education. I am fenda start waiting tables or selling sex or sumthing, cuz a brutha needs some income. I'm a Party Monster, so being broke is truly a scary concept to me.