I really respect women from the 50’s. They always seemed so well put together. They had great hair and were manicured and pedicured twenty-four hours a day. They also wore a lot of very defined make up that would be hard for anyone to keep up with all day. In addition to their top-quality grooming, these women were still stuffing themselves into girdles, corsets, and Lycra to smooth out any bulges that may try to poke out from under perfectly pleated and ironed skirts. Do you know how much effort these women put into themselves each and every day? Looking like a typical 50’s housewife must have been a full time job in itself! All of those soft, pinned curls piled inches high on their heads have to have been projects that were started the night before. Just imagine sleeping on curlers every night and fighting with a corset to breath every day. It had to be absolutely exhausting. Granted, Not many women worked in the 50’s, but who had time to when you were expected to look refined from head to toe night and day? I’m sorry but practicing that much maintenance on top of cooking, cleaning, and putting on a good front for the neighbors takes a lot of energy. It’s no wonder half of these women were using cocain products to get through the day. If these women could bring their work ethic and energy into jobs today, we would be able to accomplish much more and look great doing it.

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I can’t decide if chiropractors are quack jobs or not. They toy with spines, but don’t have medical licenses. My spine is incredibly valuable to me and I’m not sure I want any less than a Medical Doctor poking and pulling on it. I say that, but my one and only experience with a chiropractor was a good one. He fixed me right up with little effort and no pain. I have a disk that tends to slip around my 5th lumbar. It pushes on my sciatic nerve and makes it damn near impossible to walk around and carry anything. The last time it happened my best friends drove me to a chiropractor within15 minutes and he was able to alleviate the pain and head off the weeks worth of suffering that I usually experience when that happens. All he really did though was pop my back, stretch out the kinked up muscles, and make me hold an ice pack on my back for ten minutes. Okay, so he was able get the disk to go back where it belonged, but had I known that was all there was to it, I probably could have done it myself. I liked the guy I really did. He was helpful, soothing and gave a a crossword puzzle, so he’s a grade A human in my book, but I still don’t think his services were worth 50 bucks. A traction machine did most of the work anyways. Maybe if my disk slips again and I get rushed to another chiropractor, I will begin to give in and consider then necessary and legit, but until then, this first time can be considered a fluke.

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Working two jobs has it’s ups and downs. Over the summer I refuse to work more than one job. I enjoy being outside and hanging out way too much to convince myself that the extra money will be worth it. Besides, whats the point of having plenty of money to travel and shop with if you never have time to spend it? Now that it’s winter though and I can’t spend tons of time camping and climbing, I got bored enough to take on another job. If it’s too cold to go out and play, I would rather be doing something more productive than sitting around inside. Plus, I can stockpile enough money to take a trip to a part of the world where it’s warm and toasty to escape the winter for a couple of weeks. I really don’t mind working. I like staying busy. What I don’t like is tons of down time. I get lazy and never accomplish even little tasks when I have all day to get something done. I’m a procrastinator and until something absolutely has to be done, I just can’t seem to get around to it. It works for me though. For the time being, I’m happy with two jobs. Not having the time to spend money is a good thing for me right now since I’m getting ready to get back into grad school. I’m not sure how long it’s going to last, but considering it’s winter and I don’t know a ton of people in Lbk anymore, I’m just going to keep working non-stop till I have a reason to slow it down a little.

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Customer service jobs are the worst. It’s so hard for me to sit there and be nice to a jerk who is ranting and raving about getting the wrong kind of cheese on his burger. It’s just a burger for Christ’s sake. You would be better off without any cheese anyways. Since I have been on the receiving end of a disgruntled customer’s wrath, I always try my best to be 100 % decent to a server or sales person who is helping me. Most of the time whatever is wrong isn’t even their fault to begin with. The people in customer service are the front line of any company. They are always the first ones who come in contact with a bad temper and always the first to be blamed. I really think companies need to try to take better care of their front lines by offering more bonuses for good performance or higher wages. It’s definitely not easy to deal with angry or inquisitive customers day in and day out. I personally have never been good at it. I have too hard of a time holding my tongue when a stranger is berating me for a situation that he or she doesn’t understand and is out of my control. Servers rarely even get the tips that they deserve for great service. 15% doesn’t go that far these days people! Even if you meal wasn’t the best or hottest, it’s not up to you to punish the server by leaving a shitty tip. The server isn’t the one cooking your food. If anything, complain to the management and get a discount, but still leave a good tip for the server. They did their job regardless of how the kitchen is functioning.

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Working two jobs has it’s ups and downs. Over the summer I refuse to work more than one job. I enjoy being outside and hanging out way too much to convince myself that the extra money will be worth it. Besides, whats the point of having plenty of money to travel and shop with if you never have time to spend it? Now that it’s winter though and I can’t spend tons of time camping and climbing, I got bored enough to take on another job. If it’s too cold to go out and play, I would rather be doing something more productive than sitting around inside. Plus, I can stockpile enough money to take a trip to a part of the world where it’s warm and toasty to escape the winter for a couple of weeks. I really don’t mind working. I like staying busy. What I don’t like is tons of down time. I get lazy and never accomplish even little tasks when I have all day to get something done. I’m a procrastinator and until something absolutely has to be done, I just can’t seem to get around to it. It works for me though. For the time being, I’m happy with two jobs. Not having the time to spend money is a good thing for me right now since I’m getting ready to get back into grad school. I’m not sure how long it’s going to last, but considering it’s winter and I don’t know a ton of people in Lbk anymore, I’m just going to keep working non-stop till I have a reason to slow it down a little.

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I do the majority of my shopping at Wal-Mart, because things are usually cheaper there, and if you need to get things that aren’t grocery items it’s nice to just go to one place and it all out of the way. When ever I go to United and realize that I need to get shampoo or something like that, I can’t bring myself to buy it there because I know I’m spending so much more money and not even getting the product that I would really purchase if I had more of a selection. So, most of the time, just hit up Wal-Mart and get everything out of the way. BUT… today, I went to United. By choice. Because they most certainly do have one thing that Wal-Mart can’t compete with… grocery baggers. At Wal-Mart the cashier is also the bagger, so they just spin that little wheel and you get your own bags off the trolly and then put them in the cart, then you just take the cart outside and put your own groceries in the car and then put the cart in the cart holder and then you can leave. When you go to United, they have people in there whose jobs are to bag the groceries, put them in the cart, then go outside with you and load them into your car. Tonight, it was freeze raining. So you can understand why I went there and how awesome it was to have someone go outside with me and help me out in the cold, and then take the cart away themselves. Thanks, United, for paying someone to take out my groceries.

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I really try to avoid seeing most people from my high school. It’s not that I don’t like the people I went to school with. For the most part I have no opinion what so ever about them. I never got into gossip, sports, or school spirit, so I didn’t have a ton in common with most kids, but I don’t dislike any of them. Most are actually pretty decent people. My problem is that I haven’t gone in the direction that lot’s of my old class mates have taken. Whenever I see one of them, they go one and on about their kids and spouses and how they hate their jobs and Lubbock, but they gotta do what they gotta do for the fam. Either they have families now, or great jobs, nice cars, and new houses….Or sometimes a combination of it all. I, on the other hand, don’t want kids, am no where near being married and am not in a hurry to buy a house or be saddled with the responsibility or a career. I don’t feel like I am behind in life though. I’m doing exactly what I want to be doing. I went to school like I was supposed to, got a degree, then went on to learn that there is a huge world out there that I want to be an active part of. I don’t want to plant myself in a specific little corner of the earth and make babies and spend my husband’s money. I just don’t. If I ever do have a family, I want to be sure I have the time and energy to put into it. Right now I don’t. Besides the fact that I just don’t like kids, I wouldn’t want one unless I could support it independently, just in case the need arises. Right now, I can think of a million things I would rather do with myself than get pregnant or otherwise obligated to stay still. When people I used to know ask what I’ve been up to these days, I hate telling them that I’ve just been moving, traveling, and avoiding growing up. They give me the polite nod and customary “That’s neat.” reply. You don’t have to have a career, and or kids to be productive. All that means is that your busy and reproductive. I’ll get around to whatever I want to be doing when I damn well please!

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I had recently decided to put my daughter into a modeling competition for cutest baby. My husband through a gasket and was very unhappy about the issue. He wanted our daughter to grow up knowing not only was she beautiful on the outside but she was also beautiful on the inside and didnt need a judge making that clear. I tried to explain to him that we had sent in her picture because she was modeling for a scholarship and he was still infuriated. Really you would rather your child be without a college fund than show off her cute smile and let her win some money for college. Our jobs certainly arnt going to pay for college. I was mad and decided that no matter what he thought I was entering her anyway. So I recieved the letter back that stated she had been chosen to go infront of te group of judges as a contestant and try to take her very first win for money to the college of her dream one day. I found her cutest frilly dress in her closet  and put some gel into her curls so they would stay that way and continued on our journey to the competition that could someday change her dream. I went in a let the judges take a look at her and the poor little girl was scared and she decided to cling to my leg. She didn’t show any kind of personality except fear and they poor baby was booted out because of not showing congeniality! Stupid Judges.

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It’s my job to hire and to fire people. In the last two weeks I have had over 20 applicants sit down in front of me and tell me how great they were at sales and how great they were in general and that they would never be like the ass that came in right before them. How many have I hired you ask? NONE! Not one. Am I too picky? Nope. I actually gave some people a shot at the positions I have open and not one of them even showed up for work the next day. What kind of idiotic moron does that? I mean, do they want a job or not. In today’s economy, you would think that they would jump all over the job, but nooooo, they just bullshit their way through life. I am so tired of people sitting in my office and lying right to my face and telling me that they will show up for work and then pulling a “no show”. I am providing jobs in horrible time and no one wants to work. They must think it’s better to live off the system and my tax dollars. Of course that is much easier, but come on you low life scum. Don’t you get tired of people looking down on you because you are food stamps? I would rather work than to ever have to be on welfare or any type of government assistance program. The day I have to belittle myself that much is the day I buy a bottle of Windex and a newspaper and start washing windshields at the stop light.

Before I got the job that I have now, I worked as a relay operator for the deaf. I’m not aloud to go into great detail about the calls or anything, but I can say that that job totally sucked. I sat at a computer all day, and just call after call after call would come in from deaf people. I would have to place their calls for them, no matter what it was. So, I spent a huge amount of my life on hold, cursing people out that I didn’t know, or listening to old ladies talk about their plants in the yard. I worked evenings, so after about 8 pm the majority of the calls turned into prank phone calls from the internet web site. It was intended for deaf people to use when they didn’t have a tty with them, but people would always get on there and prank their friends. I had to say what ever they typed, so if you can imagine I had to say some pretty awful things on the phone. A lot of the time, I would get yelled at for no reason because the callers were just angry and wanted to be pissed at someone. I’d get yelled at by the people I called to as well because they thought I was a telemarketer. It was an all around shitty job. Sometimes, you would get stuck on stupid calls for hours and hours because they didn’t want an agent change in the middle of their call. It was quite an experience, got me through college cause I could easily do my homework there, but I could not be more happy to be done with that job.

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