As much as I felt like coming home after work and collapsing, I forced myself to go to the gym and run up and down stairs for a while. I'm glad I did. Today felt very stressful at work. I really don't like the dealing-with-customers aspect of retail. (If I could be running an internet sales site, that'd work fine!) The trouble is, you can't get ( Read more... )

There's going to be an RCMP career information presentation on 6 July at 14:00 in Kentville. So before that, I need to grill my RCMP buddy about the job. And I'd also like to wander in to one of the RCMP headquarters around here and ask if there's any possibility of doing a job-shadow or something like that.

Work felt frustrating and aggravating today even though things actually went pretty well. I think I'm actually just getting tired of it since I realised that this really has to be a temporary job -- I'll never be able to support myself in this job, particularly if the headaches continue to be a problem. I want to do something more meaningful, ( Read more... )

1: Could be posted anywhere in Canada, including the North, or (*shudder*) Alberta ( Read more... )

1: I am seriously, seriously tempted to join the Canadian Forces. Need to investigate it more, but more and more lately it's something I find I wish I'd done when I was younger and maybe should still do it ( Read more... )

This past weekend, our store had a booth in the Nova Scotia Home Builders' Association home show, in Halifax. Now, I knew ahead of time that I probably couldn't staff the booth, since it's in a hockey arena, a noisy, crowded environment, long hours, harsh lighting, all kinds of chemicals in the air -- guaranteed killer headache. In fact, I went in ( Read more... )

Yet Another Winter Storm came by today, so I left work early, and the store was going to close early too -- besides, we had two customers come in all day and with the state of the roads, any that might still come in would have to be so dumb that we'd feel guilty taking any money from them. I took a cab home, and gave the driver a 50% tip because it ( Read more... )

Going into a shop three minutes before closing time*, looking around, then getting into a detailed discussion with an employee about what you might like to buy, if it comes in a different finish, but I'm not sure if that's the right size, and what else do you have that might be better ( Read more... )

Never trust a large business or organisation to know what it's doing. Incompetence is a lot more common than one likes to think.

I'm up early (well, early by my standards -- 0710) on Christmas Eve day, so that I can get in a workout before the gym closes at noon, and then I'm going to go in to work until we close at 1400, even though I don't usually work Wednesdays.

It must say something that I actually want to go in for a couple hours on my day off, on Christmas Eve, ( Read more... )