When I was substitute teaching last year I noticed that TMBG had a song about that. It's Kids Are Different Now in case you've never heard it. I always thought it was really cool that there was a TMBG song about what I did for a living. I was wondering if any of you have experienced something similar.

how about "I Never Go To Work"... cuz i don't.

or i guess maybe "Unrelated Thing" if you figure that since i'm a female, it's my job to be annoying, & confusing, & kind of exasperating to to male of the species.

Hmm, well I guess it's just you. Nobody around here works at a crumb factory?

umm... i clean up at the crumb factory. (& i am not your broom!!!)

well, I worked at a Newspaper office, so I guess "Renew My Subscription" could count...but it's more about magazines

Well I appreciate that you're so specific!

i always thought it was about drugs.

yeah

Hmm, I guess I need to listen to it again.

it doesn't get to the drugs part till the end...

I wanna be a much better person
Instead I worsen with every day
But there's a drug whose name I'm not sure of
Which I need more of to feel okay

They told me exercise and diet
If I would try it, would cure my ills
But though I'm already past my quota
I want another load o' those magic pills

Refill my prescription
To whatever that thing is
That makes the carpet stop turning into snakes
In lieu of my coming conniption
Refill my prescription
And free me from where I don't want to be
Standing outside the unopened pharmacy
Before I confirm your prediction
Refill my prescription


but that's always the part that stands out for me.

I work at a library. And I'm a grad student. I can't think of tmbg songs about either of those, though i wouldn't surprise if they've talked about a library at some point.

ooh! it's cool that you work at a library & are a Grad student. my son Noah (ignatz) is fixing to start Grad School for library sciences. i don't even know what you'd call that. (i'll go with irony. it's a good catchall)

there's...

"Up the library steps
Up the library steps
Up the library steps
Up the library steps "Here comes
Up the library steps The Humvee
Up the library steps The Humvee"
Up the library steps"


...from The Shadow Government. it's not really about workin at one though...

tinyfolk! nice to meet you.

hey, I used to work at a Library too neat!

I worked at a beach lifeguarding for many summers... Metal Detector isn't about that, but I like that one, and its about the beach, and I see metal detector people and talk to them sometimes haha

Now I am working at a winery tasting room... maybe Drink is appropriate? haha

Letterbox - Cause I check the mail

Bed, Bed, Bed - Cause that's what I do

Lazyhead & Sleepybones - Cause that's who I am

Put your hand on the computer - Cause that's what I do!



Panarchy

do you work with computers for a living, or are you in school or something?

I work in the Deli. Right now, I work a graveyard shift when the store is closed, but I used to be the cook, and I would make announcements when, for example, fresh chicken was coming out of the oven or fryer. Therefore, maybe Dinner Bell works for that job.

that's a good one. i also think of Employee Of The Month for you, cuz it's about a sandwich & making crumbs & you work in a deli.


there was some gymnast or something on the Olympics the other night, & their name was really close to Pavlov, so every time they'd say their name i'd say "they don't want a pizza they don't want a piece of peanut brittle they don't want a pear..."

but i do that with everything. like if someone sez "Madagascar" for instance... i always say "air in a jar".

like a computer programmer? that would be cool. what would that job entail, exactly?

I'd write software. I'm interested in either doing something with music or gaming.

ooh, that sounds like fun.

Thanks! I hope it is!

yeah, it's always better to have a job you don't have to hate.

hehe yeah...
well my two favorite things are music and computers. it's just that i'm not sure if i want a career in music or just keep it as a hobby.

well, you have plenty of time to figure it out.

computer programming sounds like it'd be fun

I worked at a Library for a while, and I would sing the "Up the library steps" part of The Shadow Government when I was going up the steps

yeah i think it'll be fun.

haha that's funny. i can see myself doing that too.

actually, the Put Your Hand on the Computer song makes me laugh every time. Boy, am I a nerd!

it cracks me up too, especially the line "Brush your hand across your false goatee"

it's a great song. there's nothing wrong with that.