Picking My Brain

I’ve been busy with work and other projects, so I haven’t been posting here much about me lately. In the words of Inigo in The Princess Bride: “Let me ’splain…no, that would take too long. Let me sum up:”

My job with Wawa is over as of Friday the 1st. The training part of the job actually ended back in December. I got extended through Feb. 1, I guess in the hopes that another job would come up. Well, it did, and I got passed over. I applied for another position, but I didn’t even get an interview for that one because I didn’t “have the experience they were looking for.” It’s so weird, everyone in corporate keeps suggesting that I go back to the store and wait for something else to come along. It’s really creepy, like they’re brainwashed or something. I feel that I have perfectly good reasons to keep me from going back to the store; I could only make half as much salary in the store as I make now, I would have to give up weekends and holidays off - not to mention I’d have to go back to being available 24/7, I don’t want to waste my time doing menial labor when I have a college degree, and most importantly, I hated it!

So as of 5 pm on Friday, I am officially unemployed. I will be filing for unemployment so hopefully we won’t be completely down my salary altogether. The job hunt is very frustrating. I’ve been sending out tons of resumes, but I haven’t gotten any calls back.

For those keeping track - yes, I did say that I have a college degree. Everything went through and I attended graduation on Sunday, Dec. 17. Even my diploma has arrived, so I am done. I’ll think about grad school in a few years. When I can afford it!

So I think that’s pretty much it. It’s just my typical life, things get going good and I’m finally happy, then everything blows up in my face.