So after my third day of work I decided that I’d stay with the job and it’s not that bad…this is partly due to the fact that Bruegger’s did not hire me, but it is also because now I have people working with me so I am not alone and it doesn’t suck as much. But today I just did such an amazing job. We were told to take the siding off of a garage, so we did, but we thought that we also had to take the garage down. So the guy we thought was in charge told us to take out the supporting wall and we did…and it fell on the garage next door. Fortunately it didn’t damage it, but apparently this kid who was “in charge” had no fucking clue what to do, he had just as much experience as me and my friend. Also fortunately, the garage was supposed to come down eventually, so i guess you could say we just got ahead of schedule. But we got a gentle talking to from our boss and everything is fine. I do have to say, I felt pretty awesome taking that garage down. I got the last swing on the supporting beam and it just fell…it felt great. Tomorrow I will go back to mowing lawns of houses that have been foreclosed. I like that better cause it’s easier and wastes time cause we have to go like 35 minutes away to get to the houses. Hopefully I’ll have a day off cause I am exhausted and my body is getting bruised and battered. I have cuts all over my arms, one long on my stomach, a long one on my bicep, bruises on my legs, some sort of itchy/scabby bug bites or something on my legs, and today I took a nail to the head. Hope I got my tetnis shot!
After two days at my construction job I already hate it and want to quit. My first day consisted of breaking shit with a sledgehammer, unloading a trailer full of very heavy boards, and dug a hole. The digging of the hole may sound easy, but it was 6 feet deep and I had to fill two very heavy buckets of dirt, lift them over my head to put on ground level, then lift myself out of the hole and lift them over my head into the dumpster…this gets very tiring. Today wasn’t as bad, I just mowed 4 lawns, one of which was my boss’ and another where the grass was at least a foot tall. And for all the manual labor (8-3 on both days) I got paid…8 dollars an hour. GOD I hope I get this job at Bruegger’s. I guess the one positive is that I don’t have to go to the gym, just being in the sun doing labor is gonna make me lose 20 pounds through sweat. GOOD NEWS THOUGH…my birthday is Sunday. OMG turning 19, totes excited. Though I realize as the years go on, I want less and less for my birthday. This year I have asked for a twins hat and a Man U jersey. I did want a TV, refrigerator, and microwave, but it doesn’t seem like my dad wants me to have those things. He told me to rent them. But anyways, the only plans I have for my birthday is to go to Ruby Tuesday, order a hamburger. have endless fries, and eat my two favorite desserts by myself, I know, I’m a specimen of perfect health. On another note, I have started really leaning towards living in Columbia next summer, maybe getting a Psychology internship or at least a desk job and cutting down the tuition for my parents. I am just kind of worried about finding someone to live with seeing as that was so hard to do for this upcoming year. But oh well, I’ll figure that out later. Hope everyone is having fun!
P.S. My back is killing me from work, I feel like I am turning 50.
I finally got a job today, but unfortunately it was not one that I wanted. The guy that never answers my calls or calls me back called me today and told me I would start out part time for him on monday for his construction company. I feel like this job is gonna suck, but at least it’s money. On the flip side, I had an interview with Bruegger’s today and I thought I did pretty well. They said they’d call me back on wednesday to either schedule another interview or hire someone. I am really hoping I get that job cause then it will be full time and at a place where I actually want to work. Little do they know I will slowly devour their entire stock of cinnamon raisin bagels. I don’t want their money…just their bagels. So I’m holding out on that working out. But I am going to my cabin again this weekend, which I am not excited for because we do nothing up there and it’s just really boring and it takes 2 and a half hours to get there and the only reason my dad is making me go is so that we can do work up there. But anyways, the positives: I will be making money soon, summer is fun, the weather is great. Negatives: I IS MISS YOU GUYZZZZZ.
Well I called Bruegger’s today and they said they had already hired people but to call them in three weeks…awesome. And then my mom told me to apply to Old Navy since they were hiring, even though I’ve applied there the last three years and have never been hired. And I couldn’t even find out how to apply online since they only take applications online. Maybe I’ll hear back from construction soon…I just need a job. If that doesn’t work out I’ll just have the summer basketball camp for 2 weeks, woo.
So today my mom went to go get me some bagels (of course) and she noticed that Bruegger’s is hiring, so she told me and I headed over there (conveniently 5 minutes away from my house) and filled out an application. I really hope I get this job because it’d be way easier and better than my other option which is construction…so IF I get hired by either that’d be great, since I just need money, but if I get a choice it’d definitely be Bruegger’s. Who knows, maybe they’ll give me free bagels.
This is a great song, much better than the original because Santana adds some great guitar parts and throws off the repetitiveness that comes with this song.
Woooooo, finally I had my interview for my job. After 7 calls spanning over 4 days the guy called me today at 8:51 am, told me to meet him at his office at 11. Then he called and changed it to 12:30…then he didn’t show up until 1:10, so I had been waiting for about an hour. The actual interview lasted 5 minutes and just consisted of him telling me that he has high expectations, low pay, hard work, and two other guys who actually worked for him last summer that are competing for the same job…SO, I came out of that thinking I should start looking for another job as a backup, problem is it’s a little too late to be looking for a job. So if this doesn’t work out I’m kind of screwed. I should find out by Monday if I got the job, so I will update on that topic then. As for finals, I got my last grade back, and I did fine. I’m above a 3.0…barely…so that’s ok, but I need to start doing way better if I want to get into a good grad school. That means I will probably start doing reading assignments next semester, unlike this year, and studying a little harder for exams. Well I hope everyone else’s finals went well and they have jobs!
It’s so weird being home now. Sleeping in a room by myself, not being able to just walk down the hallway and see my good friends, eating turkey…it’s going to take some getting used to. I already miss Mizzou and my besties, but it’ll be fun being home and seeing my family and old friends. I am going to call my dad’s friend tomorrow about setting up an interview for a construction job. Hopefully that works out so I can make some bank, cause if it doesn’t I have no fucking clue what I’m gonna do…gotta pay off those bounced checks somehow.
