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My life has been an emotional rollercoaster the past couple weeks or so. Starting with the easier thing to explain, my jobs. May 1st was my final day at Taco Bell after two months shy of six years of being in the company. While it's great having that burden lifted off my shoulders, it also meant that I had to find something new for my main source of income. Just before I left the bell, my brother told me I should try getting into the company he works for, describing the job to me, and I thought I could do it and filled out an application online. Throughout my last week at the bell and my first week of freedom, I was going through different stages of the hiring process there, and ended up getting the job.
This past week was my first week working in the warehouse in Dot Foods, going in a completely different direction than I have with any job I've had before, it's almost like a fresh start. And a good frest start at that, with a good starting pay (which hourly actually works out to more than what my salary check at the bell was worth hourly), four consecutive 10 hour days (as opposed to five 10 hour days chosen seemingly randomly) with the same hours each shift, basically a set schedule which I have never had before ever. Three days off a week all in a row is pretty fricken awesome too. Also I'm eligible for benefits after three months, and insurance is cheaper and better than I had at the bell. But like I said, it's a completely different kind of work than what I am used to, but it looks like it will work out with time, since it appears all I need is practice in driving equpiment and learning the common patterns of making pallets. I was skeptical the first couple days because it seemed like I wasn't doing well, combined with other things that have been on my mind which you'll see below, but I somehow got a breath of fresh air and confidence on my last day of the work week, so it looks like this can hold me over fairly well until I can make a shift into other work.
Speaking of other work, EB GameStop (I may as well combine the two store names =/ ) has been going real well for me. My boss gave me a key for emergency backup because of current craziness (he just had a baby and has been using vacation days to spend time with her the past couple weeks, the assistant is having a baby any day now and will just leave the store when it happens and take a couple days off as soon as it happens, and the senior game advisor decided he needed a mini-vacation and took a few days off) so if it becomes impossible for anyone to close or open the store, I can do it. He trained me the proper way to close when he gave me the key, and had me do a close myself though he came after close to just observe me, and he said I did a good job, and will see what he can do about making me an offical keyholder. ^_^ I'm happy to be moving my way up the foodchain in an industry I love working for, and if I can somehow weasel my way up to assistant, then I can leave the warehouse safely.
While the EBGS thing is good, and Dot is mixed, not all has been so well. Long story short, things between me and Kait haven't been going so well, and though we do have strong feelings for each other, as a couple things were just doing more clashing than meshing. It was mutual this time around, we both agree that it's for the better, and we're still friends and on good terms, just we realize as a couple we don't really do well.
So with the new job, and a fresh start relationship-wise as well, I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about where I am in life and such. It has been kind of depressing, which really didn't help me my first couple of days of work as I said above. Through my mind, I've had instilled that I'm 23, living in my parents' basement (literally), working a not that desired job, not having a girlfriend to share my life and create a future with, it was hard seeing any positives to my life as it is right now and felt like my life was going nowhere. Thankfully I snapped out of that phase and got into more constructive thinking.
A recurring thought in my mind has been the subject of college. Between attending my sister's graduation from college today, as well as mentions of it in a conversation between me and Kait a few days after the breakup, it hasn't really left my mind. The fact that I haven't finished college is the only weakness on my resume, but yet it's the biggest thing holding me back from getting jobs doing things I can enjoy and make a good amount of money at the same time.
So I've decided that somehow, I'm going to finish. I'm sick of feeling stuck in my life, sick of feeling like it's going nowhere and doesn't have a purpose. I don't know how I'm going to go about this yet, I'm going to figure out my options and weigh them out. Things my mom and sister mentioned is paying for a class at a time, maybe going to ITT-Tech instead of finishing up at Oswego since that school is more focused with IT degrees. I don't know yet, but I am going to really look into the possibilties. And hell, maybe along that path I'll find someone for me and create myself a future outside my career, but right now I'm gonna try to not think about that too much. Right now I just need to make a future for myself, and get it to the point where I'm actually doing something worthwhile with my life while actually supporting myself. I just can't keep things the way they are right now. Like the late Owen Hart was known for saying, "Enough is enough, and it's time for a change," and for me, that time is now.
My life has been an emotional rollercoaster the past couple weeks or so. Starting with the easier thing to explain, my jobs. May 1st was my final day at Taco Bell after two months shy of six years of being in the company. While it's great having that burden lifted off my shoulders, it also meant that I had to find something new for my main source of income. Just before I left the bell, my brother told me I should try getting into the company he works for, describing the job to me, and I thought I could do it and filled out an application online. Throughout my last week at the bell and my first week of freedom, I was going through different stages of the hiring process there, and ended up getting the job.
This past week was my first week working in the warehouse in Dot Foods, going in a completely different direction than I have with any job I've had before, it's almost like a fresh start. And a good frest start at that, with a good starting pay (which hourly actually works out to more than what my salary check at the bell was worth hourly), four consecutive 10 hour days (as opposed to five 10 hour days chosen seemingly randomly) with the same hours each shift, basically a set schedule which I have never had before ever. Three days off a week all in a row is pretty fricken awesome too. Also I'm eligible for benefits after three months, and insurance is cheaper and better than I had at the bell. But like I said, it's a completely different kind of work than what I am used to, but it looks like it will work out with time, since it appears all I need is practice in driving equpiment and learning the common patterns of making pallets. I was skeptical the first couple days because it seemed like I wasn't doing well, combined with other things that have been on my mind which you'll see below, but I somehow got a breath of fresh air and confidence on my last day of the work week, so it looks like this can hold me over fairly well until I can make a shift into other work.
Speaking of other work, EB GameStop (I may as well combine the two store names =/ ) has been going real well for me. My boss gave me a key for emergency backup because of current craziness (he just had a baby and has been using vacation days to spend time with her the past couple weeks, the assistant is having a baby any day now and will just leave the store when it happens and take a couple days off as soon as it happens, and the senior game advisor decided he needed a mini-vacation and took a few days off) so if it becomes impossible for anyone to close or open the store, I can do it. He trained me the proper way to close when he gave me the key, and had me do a close myself though he came after close to just observe me, and he said I did a good job, and will see what he can do about making me an offical keyholder. ^_^ I'm happy to be moving my way up the foodchain in an industry I love working for, and if I can somehow weasel my way up to assistant, then I can leave the warehouse safely.
While the EBGS thing is good, and Dot is mixed, not all has been so well. Long story short, things between me and Kait haven't been going so well, and though we do have strong feelings for each other, as a couple things were just doing more clashing than meshing. It was mutual this time around, we both agree that it's for the better, and we're still friends and on good terms, just we realize as a couple we don't really do well.
So with the new job, and a fresh start relationship-wise as well, I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about where I am in life and such. It has been kind of depressing, which really didn't help me my first couple of days of work as I said above. Through my mind, I've had instilled that I'm 23, living in my parents' basement (literally), working a not that desired job, not having a girlfriend to share my life and create a future with, it was hard seeing any positives to my life as it is right now and felt like my life was going nowhere. Thankfully I snapped out of that phase and got into more constructive thinking.
A recurring thought in my mind has been the subject of college. Between attending my sister's graduation from college today, as well as mentions of it in a conversation between me and Kait a few days after the breakup, it hasn't really left my mind. The fact that I haven't finished college is the only weakness on my resume, but yet it's the biggest thing holding me back from getting jobs doing things I can enjoy and make a good amount of money at the same time.
So I've decided that somehow, I'm going to finish. I'm sick of feeling stuck in my life, sick of feeling like it's going nowhere and doesn't have a purpose. I don't know how I'm going to go about this yet, I'm going to figure out my options and weigh them out. Things my mom and sister mentioned is paying for a class at a time, maybe going to ITT-Tech instead of finishing up at Oswego since that school is more focused with IT degrees. I don't know yet, but I am going to really look into the possibilties. And hell, maybe along that path I'll find someone for me and create myself a future outside my career, but right now I'm gonna try to not think about that too much. Right now I just need to make a future for myself, and get it to the point where I'm actually doing something worthwhile with my life while actually supporting myself. I just can't keep things the way they are right now. Like the late Owen Hart was known for saying, "Enough is enough, and it's time for a change," and for me, that time is now.