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Dec. 14th, 2005 05:02 pm
finstergrrrl: (Default)
i don't want to make my friends who really work hard for a living feel bad. i know most of you work much harder than i ever have. i think i'm really finding it soul-sucking because it's not important to me. it's not toward a degree or raising kids or saving the world or anything. the only profit anyone gets from it is just that - profit - most of which goes to shareholders. so at the end of the day i feel i've worked this hard for nothing. at least at my other job, i can see the people i'm helping at the end of the day. i know how it affects them. that makes a difference to me. i'm making sure people who are temporarily single parents know where to go for childcare. i'm getting the word out on education options for people trying to finish college. i'm advertising diversions for people who have too many worries in their lives and need something fun to distract them. that i can do comfortably. this other job is just money in pockets.
finstergrrrl: (glow)
ugh. i'm having one of those days.

i don't really know what i want to write here. i thought i did. but then i actually started typing and everything flew out of my head, replaced by feeling generally malignant. i stayed home from one job and i need to call in to the other one. i slept until 11 a.m. and if i didn't think it'd be very bad for me i'd go sleep some more. i'm still in my robe. all this is because i've worked 26 hours in the past two days and i woke up too wretchedly tired to function. i know, i'm a wuss, but it's no use. i'm not sick, just feeling like crap. and i'm so fucking tired of thinking about/being at/trying to find work.

my new job is good. the people i work with are irreverent, skilled, funny, and laid-back. no problems there.

i think i made a mistake keeping the best buy job. i enjoyed working there when i was working mornings and when i was working only about twenty hours a week. however, i've been scheduled for twenty hours this week again and i'm already working forty hours at my day job. plus, i've figured out that while i love opening at best buy, i hate closing. HATE closing. i get out of there at midnight, get home maybe twenty minutes later, and then have to calm down enough to sleep until i get up at 6 a.m. and i don't do well on five hours of sleep a night. the only redeeming quality is getting to work with fun people. but i can hang out with them outside of work if i want to, y'know?

so i need to get out from under this situation. only question is how. i requested that my hours be cut to no more than 8 per week at best buy. apparently they're obliging me for next week. i want to quit. part of me really wants to just call up right now and quit over the phone, donesville. but i hate doing that if there aren't extraordinary circumstances. the only two times i've quit with no notice were under what i considered to be extraordinary circumstances.*

so that leaves me with either a) giving notice again (this time for two weeks) or b) sticking it out for four weeks until the season ends. i'd been determined to stick it out, but i'm hating it more and more. this is a bad time of year to be miserable.

oh, and i have another job interview tomorrow. more informational than anything, but god i'm tired of looking for jobs.


*extraordinary circumstance #1: job sucked, boss was hitting on me. extraordinary circumstance #2: job sucked, was left to close second night on job with someone who had been working there two weeks. neither of us had any idea what we were doing. drama not worth money.



edit: just noticed this post is labeled 69969. huh huh.
finstergrrrl: (snowboard)
it's snowing!! :D yay me. i had to get up at 8:30 this morning to clean up fresh cat puke. isn't that exactly what you wanted to read right before lunch? i thought so. anyway, it was worth it to see the snow starting to fall. i have all my blinds open and i'm walking around in a towel from a hot bath with warm vanilla sugar scrub. and i don't care who sees me. except maybe the kids throwing snowballs downstairs. oh, and the kids in the youth center across the street. and the elementary school. *thinks for a second about closing blinds*

in other news, i think i've made a decision. thanks to everyone who offered thoughts - all of you were a huge help. what i think is going to happen is that i'm taking this job, but keeping a few hours a week at best buy just in case. i'll keep my two evening classes and get rid of the others. if i figure out in the meantime that this job totally blows, i can talk to best buy about keeping me on part-time and pick up the classes again. i have until january to drop the classes, so i won't even drop them yet. this gives me some time. i've already given notice at barnes & noble. the job itself more or less sucked, even though there are some cool people there.

and now i go downstairs to heat up apple cider and watch the snow!! (or as [livejournal.com profile] sanmiguelmalo would say, sneeeewwwww!! the end.



p.s. i think i will work on my high school scrapbook, too. go me!
finstergrrrl: (rossi)
oh yes, i got into school! i start in january. yay me.

also, job is pretty good. interviewing for another job at barnes & noble tonight. i figure, i'll pick up a few extra hours to put some more money toward school, and when the new year rolls around, i'll see which job will have me and how much i'm interested in working.

damn i have an hour and a half until i have to leave the house again. i friggin' got up at 5:30. i'm tiiiiiiiiiired. but i also have a four-day weekend, so yay me again.
finstergrrrl: (likehell)
good god, Giant Voice is loud. we have these speakers in our housing area that are supposed to alert us when there's a tornado or an air raid or something. (i've actually heard them twice for tornado back in texas, so they Really Work™!) someone just did a test of the speakers. i have no fear of missing the signal.

i just got the weirdest, skeeziest call. so i've put in my resume at monster.com and countless temp agencies, right? so that means everyone and attendant siblings etc. can call me about job opportunities. so this guy calls from some company and sets up an interview with me for today at 2:30 p.m. (it's 12:05 p.m. as i write this). so of course i go online to see what i can find out about the company. well, i find nothing about the company, which i think is a little odd considering he told me they've been in business ten years. so i do a reverse phone lookup. the address is right, but the number is in his name, not the business's name. okay, could be a small business - if people do a reverse phone lookup on me for blue sand design, they'll get the same thing. only he didn't come off that way - he said he's in an office building.

so i'm like, okay, i can find nothing on this company, the phone number doesn't sit right with me, and this is way the fuck down in miamisburg* anyway. so i run this by my sweetie for a sanity check, and he agrees something's amiss and says i should call back and find out exactly what the position is. sound advice.

so i call back and the guy seems to be caught off guard that i'm asking. he's totally evasive, giving me general answers but no specifics. after i get off the phone with him again, i'm thinking, you're calling me about a position, not the other way around, and you can't tell me what the position is? no fucking way.

so am i entirely off base here, or has trusting my instincts once again paid off? would you go to such an interview?


*aka NOT WHERE I AM. i am near the eastern edge of a fairly large town. miamisburg is a southern suburb. not exactly a quick drive.



p.s. i did put in an app with best buy, and i'm supposed to call tonight to schedule my final interview with them. so i think i have a job anyway. not that i'm particularly thrilled about seasonal retail, but anything for a month or two.

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