Dear People Reading This Post in The Blog Thread on the QC Forums,
I got a new job! Another new job! I am going to be working for an audio-visual company working out of the Banff Springs Hotel, which if you are not familiar with, looks like this:
PRO: Earning $4/hr more, most likely going to be working more hours.
CON: Still part-time, now on a three-moth probation where I can be fired for pretty much no reason.
PRO: Once I get out of the probation there's a chance I will get promoted to full-time and potentially to better positions, no chance of promotion in my current job, hours have been getting cut now that we're out of busy season.
CON: Because I won't have access to a car at the end of the month I'm forced to move to Banff in order to do this job. It's kind of weird thinking that I have to move for a job that is actually only 27kms away, seeing as I commuted that every day back home. I guess that's the problem of living in an area where the only way to get around is a car. Also, I'm sure you all know how much of a fucking hassle moving is.
PRO: I'll be working in my actual chosen profession, which aside from the fact that I enjoy it a great deal, also bodes well for my future. It's not a good idea to let yourself go 2 or so years isolated from an industry that moves as fast as the audio industry.
MIXED PRO/CON: I'll be moving into staff accommodation at the Banff Springs Hotel. From what I can tell it's pretty spartan and there's a fairly decent chance I'll end up in close quarters sharing the room with someone else. On the upside, it's $300/month, which is $25/month less than what I pay right now, $125 less than I what I'd be paying next month if I stayed where I am, and at least $200/month less than what I'd almost certainly have to pay living somewhere else in Banff. I'll be able to actually save money (especially if I get more hours/am promoted), instead of being hand-to-mouth like I am now. I might even have DISPOSABLE INCOME OMG. Also it obviously appeals to my powerful laziness and aversion to mornings that I will be living literally spitting distance from my job.
PRO: Employees at the Banff Springs get a daily meal allowance and access to the very heavily subsidised staff cafeteria. Reportedly a person can feed himself for $4/day with this. Also I did a trial shift with them on Friday and we got fed breakfast from the copious leftovers of a corporate buffet breakfast that had finished. Scrambled eggs, french toast, bacon sausages, potatoes, croissants, danishes, orange juice, as much as I could cram down my stupid face. It apparently doesn't happen that often but the idea that I have a job where it ever happens at all is pretty awesome.
CON: It's obviously a very upscale hotel so I have to get my hair cut (I actually thought I had pretty conventional hair right now!) and shave my sideburns (which I've had pretty much continuously for 5 years i.e; when I found out I could grow them), and fuck knows what I'm going to do about my ear lobes. I'm not even sure if I'd be able to go back to a regular size if I wanted to and honestly I really really don't, I've already put a lot of money and time into getting them to where they are and I was looking forward to continuing with that. Plus, nobody there knows about my tattoos yet but I can't imagine they'd go over well, so I guess it's long sleeves from here on in.
MIXED PRO/CON: Banff is a very touristy place and full of young travelers like myself looking to party and so on. It's probably a "better" place for me to be as a single young guy on his own. On the other hand, I hate partying and going to bars, I'm completely over it. And because of it's touristy nature, everything is far more expensive, including basic stuff like groceries.
MIXED PRO/CON: This is a year round job but business supposedly tapers off in the summer, leaving free time for me to travel around a bit every now and then. This means that I probably won't go fruit picking in Okanagan over the summer, which is good and bad because the area is very pretty and it would certainly be an adventure, but I'd also be working my ass off in the sun. The stability of a Real Job sounds kind of nice but it's also cool that I'll get to satisfy my extant wanderlust, too.
Also sort of CONs but not really I feel pretty bad about quitting my current job which I'd only been at just over a month and telling my landlord I was reneging on my commitment to move into the upstairs room at the end of the month. Pretty much canceled out by the fact that I'm quitting for a better job and a cheaper room, respectively.
So yeah, much upheaval up in this bitch. I'm still reeling from all of it, to be honest, and I feel like I have even less of an idea what my future holds than I did before.
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