So I have a new job!
HUGE update, but seeing as it is almost five and everyone I am starring at will be waking up soon for meds....I will try my best to update you on my latest endevours.
I left Apple! So far the biggest decision of my life, and I did it because I have a new and better job. A more exciting job. I work at the Salem Mission, the homeless shelter in down town salem. For about 50-60 cents more and hour and much more flexable hours I babysit adults and help them on their road to recovery, housing, oh and sobriety. It is very rewarding, probably the happiest I have been at my job in a long time.
I couldnt stand Apple giving me the short stick for where I wanted to be growing in the company.
After all it hurts to see everyone else get the job title and promotion that you have been fighting and working your ass off to get.
So here I am, at a job that feels great (and stressfull) every time I work, and it even allows me to do my homework durring my shifts. (how else am I to stay awake from 12 to 8am??) No more corporate crap. No more retail. No more fake attitudes and manipulation. If someone says something rude I get to be rude right back, no more defending myself to my manager. The decisions I make here are my own, and I have every right to make them on a whim. Schitsos, alcoholics, drug addicts, sex offenders or not - It is my instinct that is trusted most in this job. I love it so far.
The only down side is the strang hours, I really didnt think i could stay up everynight when everyone else is sleeping. It is very strange to only pass over my husband - go to bed as he is waking up for work. But it is only every other day and sometimes I am lucky to be sleeping next to him at all. (he goes to bed late after watching tv most of the night)
I recently got my new macbook as a last token of my apple discount. Now i can do all the things and more that I hoped for, and possibly do it all while i am working too :) I cant wait to have this free time on my hands, working at night has freed up my days and evenings, and I can get so much more done.
so a typical day for me is this:
at midnight I begin working my shift, and I have to do anything to maintain peace and stay awake till 8am. If I have class I leave early, like around 7 am and go home to shower or grab my books. (i might even go and squeeze a 20 min nap before class)Class till about 10 on mondays and fridays, or till about 11:30 on wednesdays. (awefull!!)This is great because then right when i am done I could go home and sleep without having to worry about work right after. The only other thing I have to worry about is MASSPIRG but a lot of that is being done while I am at work and in between days I work and have off. When I do an overnight and dont have class I go home and sleep till about 2 in which I get myself up because I feel like an idiot sleeping all day or Ronald wakes me up and calls me an itiod for sleeping in all day. Either way I have the entire evening to get things done only to go back to work again or sleep in my bed with my husband. It might take a toll on my marriage and my health but I can changce my schedule, its not going to kill me to try this for a little while.
Lately I have stopped taking my antidepressants because I have a good outlook on life right now, and quite frankly I didnt last on those pills for more than a week. I currently dont have health insurance (again) and I dont want to spend a fortune updating my doctors on what I am up to.
Thank god there is a computer at my work, other wise I would not make the effort to write at all in this anymore.
Funny thing is, tehre was an incident and I had to step away, but now I am back again. This job rocks. Or maybe its just that its 5am and I have been up since 10:30 yesterday morning. I'm hanging on a moment here.
tell me what you think.
I left Apple! So far the biggest decision of my life, and I did it because I have a new and better job. A more exciting job. I work at the Salem Mission, the homeless shelter in down town salem. For about 50-60 cents more and hour and much more flexable hours I babysit adults and help them on their road to recovery, housing, oh and sobriety. It is very rewarding, probably the happiest I have been at my job in a long time.
I couldnt stand Apple giving me the short stick for where I wanted to be growing in the company.
After all it hurts to see everyone else get the job title and promotion that you have been fighting and working your ass off to get.
So here I am, at a job that feels great (and stressfull) every time I work, and it even allows me to do my homework durring my shifts. (how else am I to stay awake from 12 to 8am??) No more corporate crap. No more retail. No more fake attitudes and manipulation. If someone says something rude I get to be rude right back, no more defending myself to my manager. The decisions I make here are my own, and I have every right to make them on a whim. Schitsos, alcoholics, drug addicts, sex offenders or not - It is my instinct that is trusted most in this job. I love it so far.
The only down side is the strang hours, I really didnt think i could stay up everynight when everyone else is sleeping. It is very strange to only pass over my husband - go to bed as he is waking up for work. But it is only every other day and sometimes I am lucky to be sleeping next to him at all. (he goes to bed late after watching tv most of the night)
I recently got my new macbook as a last token of my apple discount. Now i can do all the things and more that I hoped for, and possibly do it all while i am working too :) I cant wait to have this free time on my hands, working at night has freed up my days and evenings, and I can get so much more done.
so a typical day for me is this:
at midnight I begin working my shift, and I have to do anything to maintain peace and stay awake till 8am. If I have class I leave early, like around 7 am and go home to shower or grab my books. (i might even go and squeeze a 20 min nap before class)Class till about 10 on mondays and fridays, or till about 11:30 on wednesdays. (awefull!!)This is great because then right when i am done I could go home and sleep without having to worry about work right after. The only other thing I have to worry about is MASSPIRG but a lot of that is being done while I am at work and in between days I work and have off. When I do an overnight and dont have class I go home and sleep till about 2 in which I get myself up because I feel like an idiot sleeping all day or Ronald wakes me up and calls me an itiod for sleeping in all day. Either way I have the entire evening to get things done only to go back to work again or sleep in my bed with my husband. It might take a toll on my marriage and my health but I can changce my schedule, its not going to kill me to try this for a little while.
Lately I have stopped taking my antidepressants because I have a good outlook on life right now, and quite frankly I didnt last on those pills for more than a week. I currently dont have health insurance (again) and I dont want to spend a fortune updating my doctors on what I am up to.
Thank god there is a computer at my work, other wise I would not make the effort to write at all in this anymore.
Funny thing is, tehre was an incident and I had to step away, but now I am back again. This job rocks. Or maybe its just that its 5am and I have been up since 10:30 yesterday morning. I'm hanging on a moment here.
tell me what you think.