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It has been ages since i updated this thing. It's been so long, i dont even know if i mentioned my job at rent a center. well i use to work at rent a center, but that will soon be ending, because I just started an emt class!
It's strange to say, but rent a center wasnt really that bad of a job, it was just lacking flexibility, and at 21, the last thing i want to be doing is working 9-8 5 days a week. It was just unrealistic to ask that of myself. I couldnt do that and have anything resembling a normal young mans life. The class is a huge investment in me. One of my personal beliefs is that everything should contribute to your life in some positive way, whether it be financially or emotionally or if its just plain fun. Rent a center, unfortunatly, didn't really do much for me in that respect. THe money was good, but overall it just sucked so much out of me. I was exhausted from hours of carrying furniture, I was surrounded by good people, but sick people, drugs and alcohol were so common as a clean guy, i was the outcast.
My manager, Larry, a wonderful man, use to be a pilot, and a born again christian. He's now an alcholic and is locked in a terrible and painful marriage. A job like this requires a certain personality, and I dont like to admit this, but I am just not cut out for this job. I love selling and I love people, and i felt like crap when i sold a couch worth 50 to an elderly woman on a fixed income for 2,000. A big part of me LOVED repo'ing things. but thats a part of me that I don't want to feed. Thats the part of me that likes confrontation and is dead to the world. I Never want to be that person again.
So, im gonna try being an EMT. the average emt lasts 2 years. even the average rac employee lasts longer than that. but its an opportunity to have a job that contributes to society in a very real way, and if im gonna acheive my goal of being the best man ever, a job like this is probably a good idea.
~mark
It's strange to say, but rent a center wasnt really that bad of a job, it was just lacking flexibility, and at 21, the last thing i want to be doing is working 9-8 5 days a week. It was just unrealistic to ask that of myself. I couldnt do that and have anything resembling a normal young mans life. The class is a huge investment in me. One of my personal beliefs is that everything should contribute to your life in some positive way, whether it be financially or emotionally or if its just plain fun. Rent a center, unfortunatly, didn't really do much for me in that respect. THe money was good, but overall it just sucked so much out of me. I was exhausted from hours of carrying furniture, I was surrounded by good people, but sick people, drugs and alcohol were so common as a clean guy, i was the outcast.
My manager, Larry, a wonderful man, use to be a pilot, and a born again christian. He's now an alcholic and is locked in a terrible and painful marriage. A job like this requires a certain personality, and I dont like to admit this, but I am just not cut out for this job. I love selling and I love people, and i felt like crap when i sold a couch worth 50 to an elderly woman on a fixed income for 2,000. A big part of me LOVED repo'ing things. but thats a part of me that I don't want to feed. Thats the part of me that likes confrontation and is dead to the world. I Never want to be that person again.
So, im gonna try being an EMT. the average emt lasts 2 years. even the average rac employee lasts longer than that. but its an opportunity to have a job that contributes to society in a very real way, and if im gonna acheive my goal of being the best man ever, a job like this is probably a good idea.
~mark