school's out forever

[lecturehall]

Posted: 27 April 2016
From: Hariti

As the elderly among us have realized, most of us seem to be underage. Since that's the case, I have a question regarding my education.

I'm not quite sure what to do without highschool. The concerns of reaching graduation aside, my days seem emptier without the responsibilities I had back home. Time passes much slower when I can only spend it on hobbies. And it's frustrating knowing that looking for a job would be pointless due to our apparent invisibility to normal people.

(Which is ridiculous, by the way.)

To be blunt, it's stressing me out. Apparently. My shinki noticed it enough to point it out. They even threatened me if I didn't write this.

So let me know if you have an answer. I'm obviously at a loss. Please also let me know if you have any excess paperwork. At least I know that soothes me.

[He sure is offering to be anyone's secretary.]

Comments

[saikusu]

I'm not sure how best to explain it, but many of us have jobs there and are able to interact with the living, so we're not exactly invisible. I see no reason you couldn't attend school.

[lecturehall]

Is that so?

Does that mean those people I shouted at over there were simply ignoring me?

[saikusu]

They probably assumed you were some lunatic, or you went unnoticed - which is not the same as being invisible.

[lecturehall]

I wasn't aware there was a difference.

[saikusu]

Between unnoticed and invisible? Perhaps you do need to go back to school.

[lecturehall]

Explain it within your original context about getting a job.

[he didn't think he'd have to EXPLAIN THAT!!! but fine be a difficult dan]

[saikusu]

[Well, he didn't think he was talking to someone who couldn't use deductive reasoning.]

I don't have a job yet, but I know someone who does. He works in an ice cream shop and is able to interact with the customers, and his employers have to notice him enough to pay him for his work. So clearly we're not invisible, we simply go unnoticed.

[lecturehall]

You could have just said "ice cream shop" and I would have understood.

[saikusu]

I based the thoroughness of my answer on your responses to my previous comments. I doubt that if I'd only said "ice cream shop" you wouldn't have asked for further explanation.

[lecturehall]

If you included "unnoticed" in the same sentence, it would.

Was that really the job your friend chose?

[saikusu]

[He's not going to waste his time arguing with a kid who is just turning around and proving what he said moments before to be incorrect.]

Yes. A friend of his suggested it, so he went for it.

[lecturehall]

Is it a well-paying ice cream shop?

[saikusu]

I didn't ask him how much he makes.