BENEFITS OF THE REAL WORLD vs BENEFITS OF COLLEGE

          As a good portion of my friends are going back to Claremont this week, I am starting to feel really nostalgic. I want to go back to school, and everytime I mention it to people, they shun me and tell me how lucky I am to have a job, and not to complain. Anyway, I'm making a list as to the benefits of my workplace vs the benefits of going back to school this week.

Entertainment Job/ Real World

1. I get paid (not well but it's money in the bank)
2. I dont' have to pay rent (For NOW)
3. I get benefits (medical, dental, vision, etc, etc) now...which is really the biggest benefit I feel.
4. I get free movie tickets (screenings and incentives)
5. I get to build my career/resume
6. I get home cooked meals and my mom stocks the fridge with the beer of my choice.
7. My mom offers to pack my lunch and still does my laundry.
8. I get access to whatever movies and tv shows the "Company" has produced in the past 10 years(hours of entertainment while I'm at home doing nothing/not going out with friends).
9. I have a nice new boss, who doesn't scream, yell, or ask for too much (to pick up a hemroid perscription), although if he needed it, I would.
10. I use the gym in the building and get a discount.
11. I get access to the best food trucks LA has to offer.
12. I'm actually in LA (this can really be a pro and a con).
13. I get to tell people I have a job in this economy (which for some reason turns heads today, even though I didn't get this job without help from other people)

Claremont

1. I get my friends all in one place
2. My parents pay for everything (Food, Housing, Alcohol/Drug Fund)
3. I get to learn (haha, I just had to throw this in there)
4. I get to party/relax as much as I want
5. I get a sports team ( a brotherhood unlike any other)
6. I get a suite of my own to throw parties and soiree's in
7. I get freedom of my schedule
8. I get Kikiryki, Los Dos, Alberto's, Back Abbey, and 21 choices whenever the fuck I want.
9. I get to take Organizational Studies classes with Jeff Lewis and go out for a brew with him after class.
10. I get campus thrown parties for me virtually every weekend, where I don't have to shell out dollars for a drink.
11. I get to enjoy not only the weekends but everything in between.
12. I get the snow capped mountains to wake up and look at every morning.
13. I get the option of driving home and doing my laundry/to have home cooked meals
14. Vegas is only 3 and a half hours away as opposed to over 5.

This is just the beginning of a long discussion, but the point of the matter is I miss my Claremont family a lot!
Comment and let me know what you would add to the list...

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Now That The Sound on My Computer Works

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Catchy Song of the week...

FIRST POST/ THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING BEYOND ME

Hello Everyone,

          This will be my first post hopefully of many. The reason I have never started a blog of my own, even after having worked/wrote for websites that specialize in athlete sports blogs, is because I think there kind of self fufilling...If I wanted to write for the sake of writing....I would have a diary....The reason I am starting this blog, aside from the peer pressure of my co-workers is to share what I find exciting in the world we live. Aside from that, the real reason I am writing this blog...Is to tell short stories from the inside of one of the most famous entertainment companies in the world. No, this isn't Entourage. Although I would like to believe I am balling outta control, I am at the bottom of the food chain/totem pole. I am going to share stories, hopefully in a funny way which may be embarrassing for me, from deep in the bowels of a huge corporation. Hired by "this company" as a so called "Floater" I interact and have new tasks with different people on a day to day basis. These interactions have been my life for the past few months and hopefully they will be fun to share. This blog is not to tell you where I am in the world on a Fullbright, or tell you how I am surviving on 5 dollars a day in Europe. Those of you who know me well know that I just want to give the people I know and love, 5 minutes of entertainment a day.  I love to tell stories and the reason I was the "hype man" in college was because I was able to excite people about anything and everything. I have many interests: Dance, Hip Hop,Food, Sports, etc, etc. If I can't write a story a day...well I'll post a video like I do on facebook...Well Here Goes Nothing...

Fine Print: For many reasons I can not mention the companies name or the people within, but I want the people who read this to feel like they were in my position.

G MONEY OUT....

Grant