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Blog Thread 5: A New Beginning
Grognard:
SWEET GEAR.
Much Jelly.
Carl-E:
So, worst month ever. Got stuck in two parallel 16 week classes, get paid at the beginning and at the end, so no teaching paycheck for three months. The three other jobs don't cover expenses, and my mom can't help anymore.
I've applied at a phone bank job (support for DirecTV) where my daughter works. The pay's only $11/hour, but that's still better than I make at two of my other jobs, and it's full time (40 hours / week) with "benefits" (i.e. they pay for some of your insurance). I've got a phone interview scheduled for Tuesday. I'd keep on teaching online, too. Maybe the sexton job also, we'll see.
Meanwhile, the owner of the beer barn is trying to figure out how to fire her lazy accountant of a brother in law, and would give me his hours. I told her I was applying for a full time job, and she sort of changed the subject. She won't do anything until he finishes the corporate taxes (due Nov 15th).
She's been talking about making me manager for two years now, but I don't see it happening, really. I think I'd be happier managing the beer barn, but it would only be about 30 hours a week, and no bennies. So I'd still be broke and uninsured (I'm 54, it's not a good time of life to be uninsured).
Unless she could up the pay, I'd have to say no. And that hurts a bit. As a family business, it's become a big part of my life. Thing is, her family's totally dysfunctional. I'm better off out, but I feel really bad about it, like I'm abandoning a friend and her business. he place won't fall apart without me there, but it sure won't run as smoothly - I've been doing a lot.
:-P
Why does what should be good news make me feel so lousy?
Loki:
Because most of us don't know when it's better to call it quits for self protection, and society conditions us to put the needs of others above our own, which doesn't work out in the long run.
Either that or you have empathy.
Carl-E:
Well, I have lost a lot of weight working there and at Macy's.
And my blood pressure's up.
Ah, stress...
Grognard:
GEICO is hiring call center associates.
$12.50/hr to start and the bennies are decent.
but when compared to the cost of living in Northern VA ... $12.50 sorta sucks.
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