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| Thursday, April 01, 2004 As Jobs Go...
Oh Squidge, It's
good to see you again. I am beyond bored with waiting tables, but as jobs go, this one has many advantages. On average, my shifts are only about five or six hours long, and in that amount of time, I can make quite a bit of money. Galena Forest is a pretty good place to be. Many old friends from Café Soleil are there, and the new manager is very ethical and laid back, a combination I haven’t experienced in quite a while, not since Charlene from Soleil (the best boss I’ve ever had.) Of course, after having to work in a Casino for six months, anything seems like paradise. My boss there got fired the day after I quit for stealing from customers and waiters. The Atlantis stole a piece of my soul every time I stepped foot in there. To top it all off, they made me shave my beard! Bastards… Dirty, dirty bastards. I’ve started to grow it back. I haven’t shaved since the day Ruby was born.
Gimme a break. It's
only been two weeks. Every job that I take seems to allow me to keep my résumé alive, and somehow invlolved with wine. Café Soleil gave me the title of Wine Director and Asst. Manager; all I had to do was some liquor ordering and close down the computer at night. Galena Forest has asked me to pick wines and present them for our weekly wine tastings. I have free reign over which wines to pick, and get to present and explain them. The wine tastings are pretty busy, and the customers seem enthusiastic to learn about fun/funky offerings. I’m sure there will be other opportunities as time goes by; I hope to keep this job until I am done with school. I have a semester left before I get my Bachelor's degree, and then another year to get my teaching credentials. If I do that, and enter the “real” workforce as an enthusiastic and "well-educated" teacher, then I’ll be taking about a ten thousand dollar-a-year pay cut... Actually, that’s not true. I would be loosing that much if I always worked all of my table-waiting shifts, but another advantage to my job is that I can take time off on a very regular basis, and I exploit that perk often. Besides, when I’m teaching, I hope to have better insurance coverage (I go through Ani’s work now, and it isn’t cheap) and a little time to write or bartend in the summers when I’m not on exciting vacation-style expeditions with young Ruby. The most important thing to me right now is to have plenty of time to spend with the loves of my life. I hoped writing this would help me put my job in perspective. Any work that I could do seems so insignificant when compared with the time I could be spending nose to nose with my daughter or cheek to cheek with my wife.
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