Job No. 2
Just a couple of days into my new supermarket cashier I got word that I’d landed another part-time job as a receptionist at a senior assisted living facility that’s opening at the end of May.
It’s 2/3 days a week and will involve working nights (the shift is 3 to 11 p.m.) but it pays $11 an hour (much more than my $7.25 cashier position), has some insurance coverage and you get to sit down so I’m pretty enthusiastic.
My first thought was that I would quit my supermarket job entirely and I got into a sort of difference of opinion with my mother over this. She wanted me to stay on at the supermarket in case I botch up the receptionist job (she didn’t put it quite that way, but that was the general gist of it). Dear mum. No wonder I overflow with self-confidence.
I really don’t like being a cashier, but I’ve never been able to stand up to my mother, so I talked to the supervisor at the supermarket and worked it out so I’ll keep on as a cashier, but only for two days a week once my receptionist job starts. It won’t be that bad I suppose and I’ll like the extra money well enough.
My cashier job has actually been keeping me very busy. Even though I’m part-time I was scheduled for 6 days and 35.5 hours this week, about as much as I used to work when I was full-time at Whole Foods, just no benefits. This sort of makes me think kindly of Whole Foods, which I didn’t think was possible.
It’s 2/3 days a week and will involve working nights (the shift is 3 to 11 p.m.) but it pays $11 an hour (much more than my $7.25 cashier position), has some insurance coverage and you get to sit down so I’m pretty enthusiastic.
My first thought was that I would quit my supermarket job entirely and I got into a sort of difference of opinion with my mother over this. She wanted me to stay on at the supermarket in case I botch up the receptionist job (she didn’t put it quite that way, but that was the general gist of it). Dear mum. No wonder I overflow with self-confidence.
I really don’t like being a cashier, but I’ve never been able to stand up to my mother, so I talked to the supervisor at the supermarket and worked it out so I’ll keep on as a cashier, but only for two days a week once my receptionist job starts. It won’t be that bad I suppose and I’ll like the extra money well enough.
My cashier job has actually been keeping me very busy. Even though I’m part-time I was scheduled for 6 days and 35.5 hours this week, about as much as I used to work when I was full-time at Whole Foods, just no benefits. This sort of makes me think kindly of Whole Foods, which I didn’t think was possible.