My work in a career that spanned more than half of my life has come to an end as I believe I have been replaced by Robots!

Yodeling Robots!

A friend I used to work with has moved to Los Angeles, so we spent a few hours visiting and driving all over Hollywood. We talked for hours about how happy we are to no longer be working for the horrible people we worked with.

Sitting in Mel's Drive-In near Hollywood in Highland she said to me, "I think you're in a better place now, if you ever want to get back into radio and have a show, you can do it on your own terms. You can be this successful acting teacher who just happens to have a radio show and that's better than being the radio personality that has an acting workshop."

There was a blur of activity all around us, but I focused on her statement and replayed it over and over again like a loop in my head. Without getting all "Oprah" on your asses, I believe sometimes the Universe sends you messages through the things people say. Just as I believe, people sometimes say things to you that they need to hear themselves say, for themselves.

I reluctantly went to see "Clerks 2" because I didn't want to spend the money that I would've paid to either rent the DVD when it comes out or see it on Comedy Central when it airs, however since someone else paid for it, I climbed aboard.

There's a moment near the end of the film where Randall says something to the effect, "... maybe this is what we were meant to do... I look back on the years of doing the job as some of the best years of my life..." and I know what he's talking about.

Sometimes your job can completely suck and sometimes it's the job that is okay, but your co-workers that suck. Then there are those rare times when the cosmos has compiled co-workers that all click with what you are about.

There are several people I know who now have important positions in large corporations, yet they get a little misty wishing they could just go back to working at the coffee shop, the record store, the print shop, the pet store, or the video store with the huge adult section. These people make big money now and with that they are expected to perform for what they are paid and with that responsibility comes stress and many of them fantasize about being one of the minimum wage warm bodies that rarely take their jobs home with them.

I saw Morgan Spurlock from the film "Super-size Me" on TV, okay okay, it was on Oprah, but it was in reference to an episode of his TV show about living on the minimum wage. It made me concerned that this country truly is in a depression. Millions of people are living below the poverty level and are still working full-time jobs because the minimum wage is so low. I want to tell you, that after that episode I was so deeply depressed.

In talking with a sympathetic friend about it, he said, "Dude? What the fuck are you doing watching Oprah?"

I knew he would understand.