Thank you and Goodnight
Back from the brink, or just work. You know, something like that.
So I've been doing some overtime lately, which between that and keeping up with Jen and all the things we've done with her friends and section hasn't let me with much time. I'm totally beat most evenings so my best intentions for putting up the great writings I've thought up throughout the day tend to fall by the wayside. If only I could type out things as I thought of them while straddling a beam with a studding gun in my hand. Oh well, life goes on.
Work has been going well. I put in for a wage review a few weeks ago, in hopes of getting a bit more then the meagre wage I've been making. What I asked for, I didn't think they'd give me but I figured that if they comprised and gave me half of what I asked for it would go a long way to paying off our bills and getting a car. Last week my boss, Joe, came up and told me that I'd be getting the whole amount I asked for starting this pay cheque. I was floored, while its still less then I'd be making if we lived somewhere in the south, its an actual proper wage for North Bay. It made me feel good knowing that they feel that I'm worth more then what they pay the labourers, that I'm actually worth that much to them as a welder. Although now I wish I had asked for more.
I called Canadore again today, the guy that I talked to last time went on vacation for the last few weeks so I called him last week and gave him the chance to actually get back to me like he said he would. Nothing thus far. The message I left today was a little more...to the point. If he doesn't call tomorrow, I'll head there on lunch later in the week. I'm really tired of dealing with these assholes, although I haven't really been dealing with them as they mostly ignore me. One way or another, I'll finish this. I refuse to retake a course that I completed already.
Other then that, life it good. Jen has been working hard and bringing home 100% grades, nothing unusual there. She leaves for her last placement at this school this weekend. It is the longest placement she will have in this semester, which sucks. I do have plans to head south to see her at every chance I get. My new licence arrived last week so I'll be renting up a car to head south with. Its odd to think that I'll be driving myself south. I guess that just part of going forward in life, I no longer need to depend on people to get me places, I can now get myself there.
That's it for now, hopefully I won't be so damn tired tomorrow so I can post about how the results of the American mid-term elections fill me with hate. Or not. We'll see.
It just goes to show, do not grab the third rail with both hands and piss on it from 3 inches away
So I've been doing some overtime lately, which between that and keeping up with Jen and all the things we've done with her friends and section hasn't let me with much time. I'm totally beat most evenings so my best intentions for putting up the great writings I've thought up throughout the day tend to fall by the wayside. If only I could type out things as I thought of them while straddling a beam with a studding gun in my hand. Oh well, life goes on.
Work has been going well. I put in for a wage review a few weeks ago, in hopes of getting a bit more then the meagre wage I've been making. What I asked for, I didn't think they'd give me but I figured that if they comprised and gave me half of what I asked for it would go a long way to paying off our bills and getting a car. Last week my boss, Joe, came up and told me that I'd be getting the whole amount I asked for starting this pay cheque. I was floored, while its still less then I'd be making if we lived somewhere in the south, its an actual proper wage for North Bay. It made me feel good knowing that they feel that I'm worth more then what they pay the labourers, that I'm actually worth that much to them as a welder. Although now I wish I had asked for more.
I called Canadore again today, the guy that I talked to last time went on vacation for the last few weeks so I called him last week and gave him the chance to actually get back to me like he said he would. Nothing thus far. The message I left today was a little more...to the point. If he doesn't call tomorrow, I'll head there on lunch later in the week. I'm really tired of dealing with these assholes, although I haven't really been dealing with them as they mostly ignore me. One way or another, I'll finish this. I refuse to retake a course that I completed already.
Other then that, life it good. Jen has been working hard and bringing home 100% grades, nothing unusual there. She leaves for her last placement at this school this weekend. It is the longest placement she will have in this semester, which sucks. I do have plans to head south to see her at every chance I get. My new licence arrived last week so I'll be renting up a car to head south with. Its odd to think that I'll be driving myself south. I guess that just part of going forward in life, I no longer need to depend on people to get me places, I can now get myself there.
That's it for now, hopefully I won't be so damn tired tomorrow so I can post about how the results of the American mid-term elections fill me with hate. Or not. We'll see.
It just goes to show, do not grab the third rail with both hands and piss on it from 3 inches away