The problems of a Onerepublic fan.

I'm a huge Onerepublic fan, I'm the kind of fan who stalks the twitter page and has all the albums on an Ipod, I pretty much end up listening to them a few times a day at least I even listen to music in bed , I'm practically a junkie.

I like other artist and bands that I listen to as well like Keane and the fray and what ever but Nothing else really comes close.

Any way in the UK they aren't too well known, in Europe and america they are pretty well received but in the UK they haven't topped apologise and stop and stare and nobody really knows why, I don't think it's the UK media's fault, pretty much the reason I became such a fan was because a UK music channel aired all the right moves otherwise I would have never known about the second album, It could be the marketing but I refuse to believe it's because they aren't relevant or what ever (surely music is made relevant by being talked about not because it follows a certain trend or because of the popularity of the artists or we would have no new music and musicians.)

Because nobody in the UK knows who I'm talking about I can't talk to any one about them and to make matters worse people presume I mean Onedirection or something, I occasionally manage to jog peoples memories by singing  stop and stare and apologise and people give me a pitiful look.

It's hard finding a fan who knows what your talking about that's why twitter is one of the best places online because you have a ton of fans at your finger tips, any obsecure thing your into you can find someone on twitter is also into it.
facebook however is full of people from school or work or whatever and the closest thing to a OneRepublic fan is the occasional cool kid you know who is raving about this song that features the lead singer Ryan Tedder that I've already seen ages ago and they're sharing it on facebook and getting tons of likes which is nice I guess but I shared it a week ago and nobody cared so I'm sitting there seething.

I pretty much know about every song he has featured in, wrote or produced as soon as they are released because the bands twitter page tell you everything.


But its the comments on you tube that are the worst (I know YouTube comments are notoriously dreadful but why goes every video turn into a Onedirection  slagging match?) on every video there are comments on how Onerepublic are better than Onedirection despite the fact nobody said that they preferred OneDirection in the first place, then you get that one awkward person who says that they like both 1R and 1D and tries to defend OneDirection whilst trying to prove they really are Onerepublic fans too and they try calm everyone down and it's just terrible.

 I don't really get it , people actually go to Onedirection videos to insult everyone nobody really does that for Onerepublic videos so I don't really understand why people bring up the Onedirection thing, is it because they have similar names or something?

Everyone complains about how Justin Beiber, Miley Cyrus and similar artists get more youtube views and do better in the charts and everyone says how kids have bad taste in music or how people only watch them because they want to see how awful it is and as much as I would like to see Onerepublic in the charts it isn't really Justin Beiber or Miley Cyrus's fault, do you know what I mean, they are obviously doing something right to get that much attention, I'm just happy with the way things are and if they become more popular it's fine too.

Welcome to the rest of my life.

You've just joined me at that point in life where I'm meant to be doing important and meaningful things like getting a job and starting a career or doing cool fun things like going on holiday with just your friends or out partying till the sun comes up but I'm not doing anything like that what so ever, instead I'm spending my time just sitting on my butt either in front of a computer watching anime or something.

If I'm not sitting on my butt in front of a computer I'm sitting on my butt somewhere else playing animal crossing new leaf.

And if I'm not at home it's because I've ventured out into the real world to sit at a park or walk around town with my friends (Thank god none of them have jobs either or I'd be feeling really guilty, jealous and lazy, so at least we can be broke and depressed together.)



But unlike my friends I don't have a college course to go back too, I've just finished two years of creative media and now I'm looking for a job so now I'm unemployed.
It's not like I haven't looked for a job and to be honest if I was really completely and utterly desperate I would go work in a supermarket or something but I'm not desperate yet, thankfully I don't have any big responsibilities like bills or rent to pay or a child to feed or anything so as of now I can afford to be unemployed, I just don't want to work part time in a supermarket because I'm scared that if I do I'll never find a job a actually want and never do anything I set out to do and I will end up staying there for ever.

My dad used to work in a super market as a Teenager and I swear if we didn't move to a different town when I was 4 he would still be working there.

Another thing I don't want to do is go to university pay out thousands of pounds and do that for two or three years then when I get out of there are still no jobs and I'm forever in debt struggling to pay it off with my part time job wages, but I have decided that I will go to uni if I can't find a job by January, hopefully I'll get some replies to some of the jobs I've applied to and if I don't get the job maybe they can point me in the right direction, like telling me what kind of degree would better my chances of employment.


If I know what qualifications employers want I can just go and get those qualifications, which is got to be better than leaving college and blindly walking into a course, my functional skills teacher once said something like "they're all going into uni to get mickey mouse degrees" when talking about the other people in who were in my class, me and my friend were pretty confused by this statement.

But what I think she meant was that there are so many pointless degrees that people take because they don't know what to do and the course sounds easy.
They waste so much time and money on a degree that nobody cares about and won't help you get into work, there tons of people with lots of really good degrees and qualifications and they are struggling to get jobs.


Any way as of now I'm not at college, university or work and feeling altogether rather insignificant and useless so I would like you to join me in working out what to do with my self and seeing where I end up (and hopefully it's not retiring from my long career stacking shelves in a super market.)

Welcome to the rest of my life.