Monday Goodness
Today, my dear sweet Paramount Theater awarded me a $1.50 an hour raise!! YAY! I love that place! Honestly, I think it's the best place I've ever worked...ever! I just can't stop loving it or feeling immense amounts of gratitude for what it is and what happens there. I don't even care that my job is to clean toilets or that our crew gets blamed for all kinds of petty shit. That stuff pales compared to all the cool shit, like how easy the work is, how much I get paid to do that easy work, the one hour lunches, that it's run by a non-profit organization so we don't have some owner bitching about his business and how much money it's making HIM (the whole attitude of a non-profit is totally different!), that I'm involved in an environment that supports the arts, the fact that I can see any show I want for free...uh...WITHOUT going through their BS comp ticket thing...and even sneak around backstage and see stuff others don't get to see (I got to touch "the Great Oz" talking head that they use for Wicked. It's a whole different story when you have keys to the joint. I even got pics of the instruments inside the walls on the sides of the stage that they use for their silent movie nights...those walls that yami thinks they have outdated speakers in. I also got pics of the inside of the projection booth. I might post those pics sometime when I'm in the mood to patiently upload into the scrapbook on my snail-slow dial up connection. Then again, I might not, cuz I'm not supposed-ta have those pics. Oh yeah, I even gave a little back, specifically to my crew. For about a year now, our "coffee table" was a large cupboard door sitting on top of two paint buckets. I got sick of that. So I went to Value Villains and found a really cool, oval coffee table for a nice price, bought it and hauled it on foot down the theater and put it in our office. My crew loves it. To be fair though, this is something I did last month...not today. But still...I loves me theater!
Fuck, I love my job!
And that other, cruddy job is going bye-bye. No more terrifying sights of 20 year old twinks on meth getting fucked by 70 year old uggos. No more condoms with poop all over them. No more shitty music throbbing in my ears. No more of that retarded CEO creep watching me like a reptile while I do my work, and criticizing little petty shit after making some monumentally STUPID design change ("No more garbage cans in the hallways. They look tacky," he says...So we get rid of them and the patrons just throw their trash on the floor instead. Fucking idiot). This is also good in the sense that there's going to be ANOTHER new manager coming in and something tells me, he's gonna be a major asswipe so I'm glad to be making the exit.
So YAY and more YAY! Out with the bad job! In with the good job!
Also, I have applied to do volunteer work for the Orion Youth Center, or, more properly, for YouthCare in general (although I will probably be doing most of my volunteering at Orion). This organization helps homeless youth by providing meals, shelter, clothing and toiletries, and even has stage-by-stage programs to help them learn job skills and socialization skills to get off of the streets and become empowered, productive and successful adults.
So I went to my orientation today, learned more about what it's all about, what's required and my gamut of options. Becoming an HIV counselor is one thing I'm looking at, also, maybe just a "life skills" counselor, and I'm also interested in just preparing and serving meals to the kids. And they have an outreach program where they drive around in a van and park it, and then hand out toiletries and sort of "interview" the kids to get them thinking about where they're going, what they're doing and what's available for them. I might want to get in on that. I'm totally fucking stoked to get into this!
Mooooooving forward!!
Fuck, I love my job!
And that other, cruddy job is going bye-bye. No more terrifying sights of 20 year old twinks on meth getting fucked by 70 year old uggos. No more condoms with poop all over them. No more shitty music throbbing in my ears. No more of that retarded CEO creep watching me like a reptile while I do my work, and criticizing little petty shit after making some monumentally STUPID design change ("No more garbage cans in the hallways. They look tacky," he says...So we get rid of them and the patrons just throw their trash on the floor instead. Fucking idiot). This is also good in the sense that there's going to be ANOTHER new manager coming in and something tells me, he's gonna be a major asswipe so I'm glad to be making the exit.
So YAY and more YAY! Out with the bad job! In with the good job!
Also, I have applied to do volunteer work for the Orion Youth Center, or, more properly, for YouthCare in general (although I will probably be doing most of my volunteering at Orion). This organization helps homeless youth by providing meals, shelter, clothing and toiletries, and even has stage-by-stage programs to help them learn job skills and socialization skills to get off of the streets and become empowered, productive and successful adults.
So I went to my orientation today, learned more about what it's all about, what's required and my gamut of options. Becoming an HIV counselor is one thing I'm looking at, also, maybe just a "life skills" counselor, and I'm also interested in just preparing and serving meals to the kids. And they have an outreach program where they drive around in a van and park it, and then hand out toiletries and sort of "interview" the kids to get them thinking about where they're going, what they're doing and what's available for them. I might want to get in on that. I'm totally fucking stoked to get into this!
Mooooooving forward!!