Rattle Your Walls
I reached my 5 year mark with Red Lobster (retch). This is absolutely and entirely absurd. My friends have been telling me to get a new job since sophomore year of college (Alok. Steve. Dante.), and I've put it off and put it off. I think I've finally reached the point in my life that I simply can't continue doing what I've been doing. I'll probably take a pay cut anywhere I go, but serving and bartending certainly is not what I want to do with my life. I feel like if I don't get out soon, I'm going to be sucked into doing this, or some variation of this, for the rest of my life. (Enter the quicksand) I see the 40 and 50 year old people working around me, and I can't possibly comprehend how hard this job is on their bodies. Not to mention the toll on their psyche. So...
I've got applications in with the state of Florida as well as with Hillsborough county. As of tonight, I've got two submitted. One as an Assistant Librarian for Hills Co, and one as a non-sworn officer of the Florida Highway Patrol doing some sort of dispatching (I think. Something to that effect). I have to take a test for the Librarian job, which may disqualify me, sadly enough. I need to type a minimum of 75 wpm with a 90% accuracy and my typing, albeit fairly rapid, is not quite up to that par. I used to be quite fast, but I'm not as good as I once was. Not owning a computer for some years has probably also added to that. Also, I figured out that I can arrange for the State employment website to email me when job vacancies open that fit my profile. Amazing category choices! Everything from a selection simply titled "Anthropologists and Archaeologists" (hot!) to jobs as curators, historians, archivests, to museum technicians and conservators. Getting a job in a field that I'm actually interested in would be erotic. I didn't think that things like that actually happened. For now though, I would be beside myself with joy if I managed to weasel my way into something (anything) new.
I've got applications in with the state of Florida as well as with Hillsborough county. As of tonight, I've got two submitted. One as an Assistant Librarian for Hills Co, and one as a non-sworn officer of the Florida Highway Patrol doing some sort of dispatching (I think. Something to that effect). I have to take a test for the Librarian job, which may disqualify me, sadly enough. I need to type a minimum of 75 wpm with a 90% accuracy and my typing, albeit fairly rapid, is not quite up to that par. I used to be quite fast, but I'm not as good as I once was. Not owning a computer for some years has probably also added to that. Also, I figured out that I can arrange for the State employment website to email me when job vacancies open that fit my profile. Amazing category choices! Everything from a selection simply titled "Anthropologists and Archaeologists" (hot!) to jobs as curators, historians, archivests, to museum technicians and conservators. Getting a job in a field that I'm actually interested in would be erotic. I didn't think that things like that actually happened. For now though, I would be beside myself with joy if I managed to weasel my way into something (anything) new.