I think one of these days I'll get a real job. Sure, I'm living on my own, have been since I turned seventeen and fled the Chapel. But I'm still getting money from Mom, and that's how I live. I still don't have a job, not even a part-time one like Kiya has had since she was fourteen. And I really shouldn't be depending on the money that Mom gives me, what with how I'm always going on and on about how much I want to get away from everyone in the family.

But I'm lazy, and that's pretty much a given fact. I hate doing school work, and real work would be just as bad, if not worse. Maybe if I could find a job as a flying instructor, or something like that... Except that there are tons of aivan out there who are just as good as I am at flying, even if I was one of the better ones in my class back at the Chapel. And I'm sure that most of the flying instructors out there are quite a bit safer than I am, so more likely to get hired. I would probably just end up making kids slam into trees at high speed...

And I really don't want to do something like work in a store or restaurant. Yeah, I would probably be good at it if I put some effort into it, but it takes too much work. Of course, if I really felt like doing something I would hate...I could try to get a job at one of those "host club" places. You know, the places where there are tons of good looking men who get paid to have something like a date with the women customers. Someone a few years back dug up some information from before the Cataclysm, talking about these kind of places, and since then they've been cropping up in the middle of big cities like crazy.

But then I'd have to be all nice to women...and that just doesn't sound like any fun. I hear that before the Cataclysm there were actually some of those places that catered to men who were looking for other men, but I have yet to hear about one of those anywhere here in the city. I could be mistaken, but usually I know about all of the places where it's safe for "my kind" to hang out. And I'm sure that even if I hadn't heard about it, Uncle Pernist would know. Even though everyone claims to hate him, he knows more about the sub-culture here in the city than I do, since I spent the first seventeen years of my life stuck in the Chapel with limited access to anything of interest.

Of course, none of that helps me with my ultimate goal of getting away from depending on the family at all. I still don't want to get a job, since I can't think of anything that I would want to do. And I really just don't like the idea of continuing to take money from Mom, even though I'm not doing anything for the family and am now considered an adult, so I should be working my way towards independence. Hell, Uncle Pernist manages to make enough money to live on his own, mostly because he knows that Grandma and Mom wouldn't support him if he needed the help.

Eh, I don't know. Maybe I'll just find a really cute, rich boyfriend and mooch off of him. At least that way I can choose who I get my money from. ^_^