Post College Plan 3

In about 6 months I will graduate college and supposedly become a productive member of the work force. This scares me. I really don't want to wake up everyday at 7 AM and go to a job for 8 hours. To avoid this I have be thinking of ways that I can still do whatever I want but not be forced to work 48 weeks a year.

This is by far my favorite and most feasible plan. It also involves the most work and risk.

I have talked for the past 2 years about opening a bar at the corner of State St. and Packard. I have told most of the people I know about what a great idea it is.

Most of the student population lives in the area south of Hill St. Yet the nearest bars are located up on State Street and South University Ave. For a students living at East U. and Greenwood they have to walk 2,200 feet to get to the closest bar (Charlie's). For a student living at Mary and Benjamin they are 3,500 feet away. There are lots of times when my friends and I want to go out to the bars, but convince ourselves not to because they are so far away. This gets even worse in the winter.

I've been to quite a few other schools. One thing I always notice is the quility of the bar scene. I think for a school of our size we should really have a couple more bars. My nights are usually spent between Charlie's and the Jug with occasional trips to the Blue Lep, BDubs, Mitch's and Rick's. When there is a 15 minute line at every bar on South U, I wish there were a few more bars.

Opening a bar at State and Packard would be ideal. It is in the heart of the off-campus housing population and at a big intersection. Also, it would be the perfect place to have a bar on football gamedays and hockey nights. There isn't a single bar within a half mile of Yost.

When I first started thinking about it, my tentative plan was to move into the vacant Saki Bombs. But then Get Your Game On moved in. But in another turn of event the proprietors of Atlanta Bread Company decided they did not like making money and turned their store into Artisan Organic Bistro. They are open about 4 hours a day and I am taking bets on weather it or Get Your Game On will close first. I heard that the Organic Bistro isn't supposed to make it past the end of the year. Artisan Organic Bistro is nearly ready to be a bar. It has an open layout and with a couple of TV's it could be a bar as is, even though I would definitely make some changes.

My only fear is that I could become that creepy old dude that still thinks he is in college. I saw Mitch of Mitch's Place in an alley behind a dumpster smoking cigarettes. He is like 40 years old now. But then again I see BTB Adam at the bank all the time and he seems to be making lots of money. I bet owning a bar isn't as glamorous as it seems. You probably have to do a lot of work, but you would be soooo drunk all of the time it wouldn't matter. I've seen It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, that looks like fun. I hear the hours kinda suck, but as long as I'm not doing Charlie work I think I'll be fine.

I have a few names in mind. The Narwhal is the current leader.

Post College Plan 2

In about 6 months I will graduate college and supposedly become a productive member of the work force. This scares me. I really don't want to wake up everyday at 7 AM and go to a job for 8 hours. To avoid this I have be thinking of ways that I can still do whatever I want but not be forced to work 48 weeks a year.

I am already planning a trip to Alaska to prospect gold. So my second post college plan involves me striking it rich in the gold fields. Lets say I stumble upon the motherlode (that's a golden pun (ohh that's rich)) I then can really do nothing all year. My work would involved going camping for a few weeks a year and just collecting more money from the ground. I figure that I would only need to gather 7 or 8 pounds of gold a year to make just as much or more money than I would working a full time job. Sounds pretty easy to me.

Post College Plan 1

In about 6 months I will graduate college and supposedly become a productive member of the work force. This scares me. I really don't want to wake up everyday at 7 AM and go to a job for 8 hours. To avoid this I have be thinking of ways that I can still do whatever I want but not be forced to work 48 weeks a year.

My initial idea is to make a fortune on the internet. But how do you make all those internet monies? It's not by selling other peoples shit on eBay. I think I could start a pretty successful website. The trick is catering to your audience. Through my experiences I have found that the most peaceful thing in the world is a fat Asian kid napping. For some reason when an overweight Asian kid is catching some Zzz's it just puts my mind at ease. I bet there are others out there who also find it very peaceful. So I want to start NapTube. It's just like YouTube, but instead of crying teenage girls it's just streaming video of heavyset Asian kids napping. I'll leave it as NapTube just in case I want to expand to skinny albino adults napping in the future. Hey it worked for those people over at CryingWhileEating.com

Don't Vote

The last presidential election was during my senior year of High School. I didn't vote, and here is why.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcruss/dark%20side%20of%20voting.jpg

Also, I was only 17 years old.

What I would bequeath the University of Michigan

It appears from the amount of plaques around campus that each graduating class gives a gift to the school. I have no idea who gets to decide what we give the school, or how our class pays for it. I have an idea for a class gift but I have no one to present it to. The only person I know in MSA is dating the guy who made fun of me in front of the Ann Arbor City Council. So I guess I'll tell you my idea and hope that the Director of University Giving is an avid blog reader.

The class of 1870 purchased a statue of Benjamin Franklin and gave it to the University. The statue stood just north of University Hall, where Angell Hall stands today. Here is a picture:

Unfortunately the Class of 1870 had thought they had purchased a bronze statue but in fact it was made of Pewter. Student would regularly paint his trousers and jacket maize and blue. The statue stood there for the next 29 years. In 1899 a student wedged a beer bottle in to Mr. Franklin's pocket. To prevent further deterioration the University decided to drill a hole in his head and fill him with cement. Of course as any material science major could tell you, cement filled pewter + winter = deterioration. The greatest American didn't make it to see his 30th birthday.

So I think it would be prudent of our class to re-give a statue of Benjamin Franklin and restore his place on our fine campus.

I don't work hard for my money

This is the week I get some of that internet money. Yes my friends, by the end of this week I should be holding a check from The Google for 102.06 dollars. When I got AdSense almost a year ago my goal was to have enough money in a year to buy a forty of Colt45. I underestimated my earning potential (you guys) by about 330%. The question is what should I do with my new found wealth. Since I really don't feel I have done anything to earn this money, I figure that I should spend it on something cool. I am open to idea's, but I have a few in mind.

Blogging party
This could be one of two things; a party for myself and fellow blog readers paid for by my blogging earnings, or it could be just a party that I liveblog during. Either way it would be a celebration of my blogging prowess, in which everyone would be required to read some of my posts aloud and discuss my pure blogging genius. But I really want to make use this money for more than a keg of Keystone Light.

Low risk long term retirement savings account
Um, yeah you know in like a long time this money will be worth more and then I can like, do things with the money I got from when I blogged during college. This sounds lame.

Fight Ann Arbor's unfair chicken ordinance
I don't know how much money it takes to fight city hall. Especially when my lawyer fee's are covered in my tuition. If I have any money left over though I can use it to file a permit, build, and care for Elwood Blues.

Rent a midget
I wonder how long you can get a midget for $102.

Put it into the AR-15 fund
I still haven't bought my assault rifle, mostly because they cost more monies than the intertubes provides. This could start the fund. The other reason I haven't bought one is that if I move to Chicago next year, I would have to get rid of it because of their Assault Weapons Ban.

Give it to charity
ha.

Build the zipline
I have always wanted to make a zipline from the third story of our house up the street to Bell's pizza. That way I wouldn't have to walk all the way downstairs to go to Bell's.

Become a day trader
I could get an E-Trade account, and become a day trader. Then I could get enough money to do everything listed above. Except give it to charity of course. I really don't know much about the stock market or investing, but I do have a Stocks application on my iPhone. If I make money then wooo! or else I can enjoy the financial crises like all other Americans.

I work hard for my money

I got up this morning at 6:45 am. I rolled into work to do a 6 hour charter. The charter was to drive a bunch of student to the Target on Main Street for some corporate thing. They were supposed to be ready at 7:30. They didn't board the bus until 8:10. I then drove them to target and went back to base. I didn't have to pick them up again until 12:30 in the afternoon. That left me with a good amount of time.

I drove home and got some books and papers so I could study. I also grabbed some breakfast while I was home. I came back and started reading Call of the Wild at the table in the break room. Then I sat on the couch. Then I laid down on the couch. Then I was asleep. Eventually I started snoring and one of my co-workers woke me up. We started talking about how inefficient the bus system is. Of course, as we were talking both of us were getting paid to sit around the break room. Anyways he told me that I should present my ideas to management. So I spent the next 40 minutes outlining one of my ideas that I believe would save the department $10,000 a year and reduce fleet miles by 2,500 miles a year. I told this to my supervisor, and he said I should look into it further. Though I don't know if I want to spend my spare time doing free consulting.

Anyways, it was about time to go get the kids from Target. I decided to stop on the way for a McChicken and Double Cheeseburger. Then I sat in the Target parking lot for 20 minutes waiting for them to come out. When I thought about it I couldn't believe that they would pay to charter a bus to take them to Target. The price to charter a bus is $60 per hour, with a minimum of $180 dollars. So their 6 hour charter for the 25 of them cost $360. They could have taken cab's down there for less money. $360 to take 25 people 2 miles away and back. Wow.

So I dropped them back off at Campus and then I went to go finish of another driver's charter. It was a bunch of High School kids going to some thing at the B-School. I sat in my bus for about half an hour and then drove them back to Huron High School. Then I drove back to base and went home.

I worked over 7 hours today and spent approximately 40 minutes driving people around.

No one explicitly enjoys working, but most people have to in order to make money. So if you must work you should make as much as you can for the least amount of effort and least amount of risk. The only problem is that effort generally affects pay rate. So most high paying jobs require a considerable amount of effort (generally in time and mental strain). But what's weird is that most low paying jobs also require a great deal of effort like being a janitor or coal miner (generally physical). So the best jobs then are the ones that pay well for very little actual work like the students who work at the information desk's or in the fishbowl. It makes me wonder why some people work really hard at jobs that pay so little money, when really anyone can drive a bus, or become a receptionist or something.

So take three jobs students generally have; Cafeteria Worker, Tutor, Drug Dealer, and my job, Bus Driver. On a scale of one to five (five being the highest) here is how I would rate them in effort, risk and payment. Assuming no one gets any satisfaction from their job of course.

Job	Effort	Risk	Payment
Cafeteria Worker	4	2	2
Tutor	3	0	4
Drug Dealer	1	5	5
Bus Driver	2	1	3

In terms of an effort to payment rate, I would guess the best job on campus would be dealing drugs. But the only problem is that it is a high risk job. Injury's and arrests would deter me from doing it. The amount of effort that is involved driving a bus to the amount of payment is pretty good. Of course I risk getting a ticket (which is rare in a bus) or getting into an accident. I'm not certain that I have the best job on campus but I feel like compared to many other jobs mine is significantly less taxing and the pay is very decent.

I will say that being a Minority Peer Advisor in a residence hall is probably the best job on campus in terms of effort to pay. Apparently the time commitment is only 15-20 hours a week and for that you get free room and board and a cash stipend of about $3,000.

P.S. I coded the table in HTML myself. Booya! But I can't figure out the gap between the text and the table.