Tuesday, May 13. 2008
I hurt.
It's been days since Freds closed and I am STILL in massive amounts of pain. x__x I've got cuts and bruises on me head to toe, my whole body is stiff and sore, and my feet still ache when I stand longer than 10 minutes. It prolly didn't help I spent the first few days after closing running errands and walking all around town.
It was hilarious while we were working on cleaning out the store cause customers would show up saying. "If you're closed, why are you still here?!" ...Uh, duh... All the merchandise and shelves don't magically disappear when a store closes. The employees have to count it, pack it, load it on a truck.. And then rip down all the shelves and fixtures, then clean the entire store of years work of EW. It was massive hard work and most of us ended up with minor to severe injuries. One guy had his finger speared all the way through by a giant wood splinter. Our boss slice her hand open and got a big blood blister on the other when she crushed it under some shelves. I'm lucky the worse I walked away with was some huge bruises and a couple cuts.
So everyone is wondering what we'll do now and if we have a new job yet... And I'm like daaaaamn. We didn't have any time to go job hunting while we were working, cause we were working 12 hour days. Pan is taking a week or two to recover from all that mess. And I'm not ever working again! ....Okay unless the bookstore hires me. I put in an application there and I stop by every few days to pick up a new book. I volunteered to do book reviews even though I'm not an employee (yet!) so they may eventually hire me.
In the meantime, we've all agreed that it's nicer when Diana stays at home. Because then people get clean clothes, a clean house, bills payed on time, trash taken out, and errands run without the whole apartment looking like it's a tornado disaster zone. While I was working non stop those three weeks I actually forgot to pay the power bill cause I was just too damned tired to do anything but go straight to bed. We nearly got our power turned off.
And a big fat middle finger goes up to all those people who think I'm lazy. Because a lazy girl would not have received an official recommendation from THE District Manager of Freds because I was such a reliable and hard worker. Both Pan and I received one, because we showed up every day on time, stayed all day, put in over time, stayed late and busted our asses to get shit done.
Now I can mark a check box on my long list of things Diana Must Accomplish! I had a real job. I know I can DO the job. And next time I get one, it's going to be a million times easier. There's not any more fear about going out and trying, all that self doubt about whether or not I could handle it. I know I can now! I just hope it's the bookstore I get hired at, cause then It'll be a job I'll really love and enjoy!
WHAT'S NEXT! Well, I still have to get a legal and official driver's license. That kinda got put on hold since my job-plan to get a car has been cut a bit short. c__c; Luckily I can still jet around on the bike.
And then there's school. e.e;; Right now I'm hating on College and the whole thought of it, because so many people are getting screwed by their colleges. It costs too much money for a sub-par education, and you're not even guaranteed to get in to the field you studied for, so you have a huge change of going through all that school for nothing. AND it sure doesn't help that I STILL haven't decided what sort of career I would be content with for the rest of my life. I don't want to go to college and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for something I'm not even going to USE.
Not that I think knowledge is for nothing. But putting yourself in debt for it is an entirely different matter all together.
So for now I'm just happy living!
And I won't forget my current project. It's coming along nicely, though really slow. I didn't expect it to go by quickly, but I'm excited about the potential of "FUN" it contains and I wish I could fast forward to all the good parts. The technical aspect of it is going to take forever, because I have to build the damn thing from SCRATCH. But, despite being annoying, that's a good thing. I want to try and correct all the mistakes I made in the past and see if I can build a better more solid system.
And from the ashes... new things are born!
It was hilarious while we were working on cleaning out the store cause customers would show up saying. "If you're closed, why are you still here?!" ...Uh, duh... All the merchandise and shelves don't magically disappear when a store closes. The employees have to count it, pack it, load it on a truck.. And then rip down all the shelves and fixtures, then clean the entire store of years work of EW. It was massive hard work and most of us ended up with minor to severe injuries. One guy had his finger speared all the way through by a giant wood splinter. Our boss slice her hand open and got a big blood blister on the other when she crushed it under some shelves. I'm lucky the worse I walked away with was some huge bruises and a couple cuts.
So everyone is wondering what we'll do now and if we have a new job yet... And I'm like daaaaamn. We didn't have any time to go job hunting while we were working, cause we were working 12 hour days. Pan is taking a week or two to recover from all that mess. And I'm not ever working again! ....Okay unless the bookstore hires me. I put in an application there and I stop by every few days to pick up a new book. I volunteered to do book reviews even though I'm not an employee (yet!) so they may eventually hire me.
In the meantime, we've all agreed that it's nicer when Diana stays at home. Because then people get clean clothes, a clean house, bills payed on time, trash taken out, and errands run without the whole apartment looking like it's a tornado disaster zone. While I was working non stop those three weeks I actually forgot to pay the power bill cause I was just too damned tired to do anything but go straight to bed. We nearly got our power turned off.
And a big fat middle finger goes up to all those people who think I'm lazy.
Because a lazy girl would not have received an official recommendation from THE District Manager of Freds because I was such a reliable and hard worker. Both Pan and I received one, because we showed up every day on time, stayed all day, put in over time, stayed late and busted our asses to get shit done.Now I can mark a check box on my long list of things Diana Must Accomplish! I had a real job. I know I can DO the job. And next time I get one, it's going to be a million times easier. There's not any more fear about going out and trying, all that self doubt about whether or not I could handle it. I know I can now! I just hope it's the bookstore I get hired at, cause then It'll be a job I'll really love and enjoy!
WHAT'S NEXT! Well, I still have to get a legal and official driver's license. That kinda got put on hold since my job-plan to get a car has been cut a bit short. c__c; Luckily I can still jet around on the bike.
And then there's school. e.e;; Right now I'm hating on College and the whole thought of it, because so many people are getting screwed by their colleges. It costs too much money for a sub-par education, and you're not even guaranteed to get in to the field you studied for, so you have a huge change of going through all that school for nothing. AND it sure doesn't help that I STILL haven't decided what sort of career I would be content with for the rest of my life. I don't want to go to college and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for something I'm not even going to USE.
Not that I think knowledge is for nothing. But putting yourself in debt for it is an entirely different matter all together.
So for now I'm just happy living!
And I won't forget my current project. It's coming along nicely, though really slow. I didn't expect it to go by quickly, but I'm excited about the potential of "FUN" it contains and I wish I could fast forward to all the good parts. The technical aspect of it is going to take forever, because I have to build the damn thing from SCRATCH. But, despite being annoying, that's a good thing. I want to try and correct all the mistakes I made in the past and see if I can build a better more solid system.
And from the ashes... new things are born!