Took the Red Eye to Friday

So, it's Friday. Normally I would dig it man, but until I find a job, it just means another week that I have to figure out what I'm supposed to do. School starts in a month, but until then, I'm behind on rent, behind on my car payment, and I've got enough money for food for the next couple of weeks, as long as we're cheap.

I have internet on my phone, I have one guitar left, and my xbox doesn't have access to the net so I can't play with my friends. I'm tired of being "overqualified," all I want is a sh*tty part time job. The Home Depot wasn't paying, it was costing me more to deal with them than the two days a week they were scheduling me.

Well, on another note, I did get a great legal software job, but it's part time, and I don't start until the end of August, which is a month away. It will pay my car payment, as long as they don't repo it before I start. My landlord has agreed to extend my "behind" rent, but that's costing me time to "work" for him as a cleaning person in some of his rentals. It doesn't pay, but he is looking the other way as far as me being so far behind. And he picks me up so I don't have to pay for gas.

One would have thought law school grads would have it just a little better than a person with no high school diploma. One more month, one more month...

Ring, Ring...

me: hello?
her: Mr fat plaid shirt?
me: yes?
her: this is mrs happy pants. We would like to schedule a second interview
me: yes, i can fit you in my schedule...
jump to end
her: ok, we look forward to meeting with you again.
click.
Yayy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The job doesn't start for another three weeks, and it's part time, but the fact she wants me for a second interview is enough to make me sooooooooo happy!!
It'll be the perfect position while I work on my MBA. Small business, commission, yeah, I can sell anything, especially when it deals with the law and small business!!

Closed the Door

Well, due to being surrounded by unprofessional and unprofitable behavior, not to mention the inability to pursue a position of higher economic wages, I have excused myself from my crappy hardware store job. In other words, after recieving no hours and being told straight up that I would not be promoted, I have left the Home Depot. I am hoping that something comes my way real frigging soon 'cause man, I ain't got no money.

I am still happy with the depot as a company, and I will continue to spend money there, but after continuously trying to get promoted and having wasted a lot of energy trying to climb a broken ladder, fiscal responsibility required me to abandon those efforts and focus on finding anything better at this point.

How did I know I wasn't getting promoted? My district HR lady said I am not currently a manager and that means she won't help me find a better position until I become one, and my store manager specifically told me, I am not opening your resume because I will not promote you in my store. So, I am off. I wasn't getting hours anyway so it's not a huge loss, it just sucks that I spent two years thinking education was important to my advancememt and it is absolutely not true. Happy summer!

Offer?

She said, "we really want you to come aboard, so we are willing to offer you part-time work, and a starting salary of ten dollars an hour?" She also discussed it's not really a management position so much as answering the phones, keeping the coffee filled, taking out the trash, and and providing customer service.

Weird, because I was sure I was interviewing for a manager position at another box hardware store. Turns out, she wanted to put me in essentially the same dead end job I have at the Home Depot. A spot where you are always "possibly management material," but it takes five years of being someone's part time trash to get promoted, even with a law degree, past management experience, and a crappy sense of humor.

I politely declined, because if I wanted to keep a job that leads to nothing but back troubles, I'd stay where I am.
But fear not, I had another interview that went very well just two days ago, and I haven't gotten a "please don't work here" call. Happy Friday!!!!!!!

Perspectives

You are: underqualified; overqualified; not taking the bar until february; not experienced; not going to be able to afford parking; probably not going to get along well being micromanaged like we do here. These are all things I hear after interviews.

Well, screw it. I am going to get one of your management jobs, and when I get it, I am going to fire you immediately for being incompetent (sp) . Happy Summer.

Interview, Schmenterview

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