ruminations on my life

[jewelsybear1017]

This week has been a little bit eye opening. I've been having a bad week from the working stand point. I've been at Target for a month and starting last week, I loathed having to go into work. I counted the time until my first break, to my lunch, to my final break and until the time I got to leave. I've not gone in or even called in the past

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[brad_jmg22]

One of the things that I found to be the most irritating about working in any type of sales/retail is that the majority of people that come into the store can be okay (maybe not around the holidays...but other than that okay) but you never know which ones wont be okay. What the guy buying the alcohol doesn't realize is that those asking for his ID, are doing it because they are supposed to. He doesn't get that. He doesn't WANT to get it because to admit it only invalidates his outrage at being put out by having to show the little piece of plastic he purchased in order to prove his identification in the first place. How dare people ask him to use it for the purpose in which it was intended! :p If only he realized just how much of a jack-ass he made himself out to be in asking for the supervisor and making a scene. And then of course people never read the coupon. They read the big bold numbers followed by a symbol they have come to know as a percent sign (but only from being a consumer...) and that's good enough for then. Can you imagine just how much perfectly good beer drinking and frapachino sipping time they would be wasting if they had to read all 29 letters on the coupon? Too much...too much, lol.

I am sorry to hear that you aren't working there anymore...but I get it. I know that going from hoping for work and trying to find work without luck for a period of time and then going into that particular kind of work can be jarring, especially around the holidays. Too many people are far too engaged in themselves to realize just how their actions effect those around them, especially people in your position where you have to at least try to be nice. Sometimes it doesn't take much to have it become overwhelming. So I get it and I hope that you can find something soon that will better suit you. I also hope that you get the med situation sorted out. I am ill suited to advise on that subject but I do hope for the best for you on that (and all fronts)...no matter how cliche that sounds, lol. I really do hope it works out. Just keep at it. If I hear of any job openings I'll let you know.

And I don't think the last few lines of your entry makes you sound elitist and entitled, because you make a good point. You went to school and got the degree. It is understandable to find it frustrating to not find employment suited to it after you put forth the effort in school. I'll put it like this: If the job market were an employee, it would have been fired a long long time ago. Often it is biased and can't see beyond it's own capacity. All in all a rough place.

But you'll make it. Just keep at it and let me know if you need anything. Next time maybe I won't go on and on like this. :p Sorry about the long reply. Later!