live moxie

So I’m sick.  :(  I haven’t posted for a few days because I have been working non-stop while sick.  I think I became sick from working non-stop before.  When am I going to learn?  I have either baby-sat, gone to school, or worked at Sonic every single day and normally doubled up on things.  I like being busy but I need to realize my health is more important and what I was doing was severely lowering my immune system.  Sorry that was not very interesting

Anyway, last night I was baby-sitting and they had Oprah ti-voed.  I don’t know when the episode was but it was sometime last week on rudeness.  Did anyone see that episode?  Before taking a job at Sonic I had never worked in the service industry.  I took it because I wanted extra money and I love to talk, what is a more perfect job right?  Anyway…  it mentioned a lot about rudeness to servers and I actually understood it more!  I think there are some things you cannot fully understand (you can take notice of them etc.) until you experience in.

One of my biggest pet peeves is people talking on the cell phone.  I can basically stand at their car for 2 full minutes before they notice me or they are holding their cell phone against their head and handing me the money never stopping their conversation and never saying thank you.  That and those are the people who normally do not tip.  I understand some people do not know that Sonic servers work off tips, but some people do know and still want their four cents back.  :)  It is the most frustrating when they are probably twice as likely to send something back.  One lady was so mad at me that I gave her a spoon for ice cream and she wanted a straw.  I didn’t get it out to her fast enough and she came waltzing in and complained to the manager.  I had three orders on my tray and it was the first time I had gotten back in to get her a straw.  I just think some people don’t get it!  Or today the lady who called back on the speaker because they ordered a coke and a diet coke and our fountain forgot to mark them.  She wanted completely new ones because she didn’t want to test them.  When the car hop got out there she was drinking them!!

Whew… felt good to get some of that off my chest.  I think it would be great for everyone to work in the service industry at least once just to see how it is on the other side.  Since starting at Sonic I am so much more understanding while I am out to eat.  I know Sonic is not like other restaurants and I am sure the experience is completely different at a sit down restaurant but I enjoy it.  Most days. 

I think today has probably been my favorite Monday in forever and all I did was work!  I mentioned on Friday that it was my last day of work.  So today was my first day of being “free.”  Obviously, I was not exactly free because I took a shift at Sonic because someone called in.  I got to Sonic at 6:00 AM!!!  6:00 AM is CRAZY and I know people do it EVERYDAY and I give them so much credit.  There are people that have no other choices and need to support their family and they will work any job so that they can give their family a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs.

Basically on that same note, it bothers me when people say they cannot find a job, especially people my age.  What they are basically saying is they do not want to work in the service industry to make extra money, they may think they are “too good” to work in the service industry or they are too lazy to work there.  I guess what really bothers me is that some people thing they are better than other people and that a job in the service industry is below them.   Yes, they may have a college degree but sometimes you may have to take a job to pay the bills that may not be your dream job.  But you have to start somewhere.  Who knows, you could begin working at the lowest position on the totem pull and work your way up to high management, it has happened a lot more than once.  I guess it just bothers me that my generation has this sense of entitlement and gets a bad rap from it.  I understand we are not perfect, I’m not perfect, no one is.  But it does make me mad how some of my generation acts.

Okay, I guess I’ll step down off my soap box, but it is a blog for my opinions, so that is what I give.  It is great having an outlet where I can let loose and let my opinions be known.   After I worked at Sonic (only until 9:30) I went to baby-sit at 10:00 until 3:00.  I am so glad that I can baby-sit again, I have missed it.  I honestly feel that my calling is to work with kids.  Working behind a desk from 8:00-5:00 was horrible for me.  I love to be on the go all the time and doing that did me no justice.  But again, it was a job and it was a good job and I am thankful for the experiences I gained while working there.  We have to try things out before we find out what we like and what we do not like.  I honestly do not think anyone can come out of college knowing for sure what they want to do.  More than likely they have not had a lot of experience with it and are basically finding a job in a field that they think they want to be in.  For me, I always have wanted to work with children and teach.  I just took the more practical route of a business degree and always planned to go back to graduate school for education, I just didn’t know it would be so soon.

But I think everything works out for the best and I am more than ready to start this new chapter of my life.  On another note, Gossip Girl is on today.  It is my all time favorite show.  I know it is basically a show about stereotypical upper east side high schoolers, but that is what I love about it!  The characters are so well defined, it is just a very well written show.  Also the premiere of Samantha Who is on today and I LOVE that show as well.  I don’t have a lot of time to watch tv, but these are my two do not miss shows.  I cannot wait to see how they begin this season of Samantha Who.  I honestly want her to get back with her boyfriend, I cannot think of his name right now.  But I have always wanted her to get back with him, all of last season.  So I cannot wait to see what they have in the cards for them this season.

I must be going now.  As Samantha Who is going to begin in about 10 minutes.

::Breath a HUGE sigh of relief::

Okay, so you are probably wondering what the heck I did that for but today was my last day at work!  I gave my notice 3 weeks ago that I was going to be focusing on school full time.  Now, I am going to have to still baby-sit and work at Sonic (I don’t think I mentioned I work at Sonic on the weekends.  I only applied because it seemed like a lot of fun and it is.  I get to talk to people.  Although, it can be quite drama-filled working there.  Just think a bunch of high school kids in a little space about the size if not smaller than a bedroom.  It is hard to ignore them all sometimes…) but I thought about it a lot and I could not continue working part time at what I called my “real job.”  Now Sonic and baby-sitting are pretty real jobs.  They are stressful and time consuming but I called this my “real job” because it was (or had been until I went part time due to school and a graduate assistantship) an 8-5 desk job.

It was my first real job that I worked out of college.  I am thankful for the experiences there but I learned that I do not like desk jobs, I do not like sitting behind a computer all day and there are some very hard to work with people out in the business world.  I know it will be like that anywhere you go but when you work in a negative environment and are basically the only happy one, it gets kind of annoying.  But my point is….. I’M DONE!!  Now I just need to figure out what to do with the rest of my life….

Just kidding :)  That is why I am back in school.  I know what I want to do with the rest of my life.  I want to be a teacher.  I love children and I love teaching children.  Some people may think I am crazy but to each his own, right?  I am actually going baby-sitting in a little bit.  I drove up to Nashville a little early because of the Friday traffic (don’t you love how traffic is always worse on Fridays?) and am now sitting in Panera eating my tuna on honey wheat typing on my blog.  I think I am really getting the hang of this blog, now I just need to find people to read it. 

Okay, so today started off a little differently.  As I write this I am sitting outside on my deck enjoying the beautiful weather watching my two dogs rolling in the grass.  I should be at school.  As I think I have mentioned I am currently in graduate school.  I slept in today and was getting ready to leave the house around 12:00.  I am a graduate assistant and so I had some work to do with some forms and entering the data.  (I know, you’re jealous).  Anyway, I check my phone and at 11:57 I received a text message that all classes are cancelled until next Wednesday.  Now, it really is not as bad as it sounds because next Monday and Tuesday are fall break, so really just today and tomorrow have classes cancelled.  So I try to log onto my e-mail to see if there are more details or the alert website and the server is of course overloaded with everyone else trying to see what is going on.  I did receive an e-mail yesterday because there have been some “anonymous emails” with threats and they were looking into it.  That e-mail just said that classes were going on as scheduled.  Well, now apparently those have continued and there have been fires being set around campus.

Okay people… why?  is my only question.  How pathetic are you that you have to go around sending e-mails saying you are going to “do something” on October 9th and set fires?  I was talking to my ga lady and she said that she thought it was kids who just wanted to get out of a test and quite frankly I agree.  I mean, they are probably going to get caught.  The local police and campus police are now investigating it.  Is getting out of a test or some other assignment worth getting kicked out of school?  uh, no!  A lot of teachers are giving practicals and tests because it is the mid-point of the semester, so really that opinion that some of the teachers and students have is not too far fetched.  It is quite sad though.

Thankfully, the school is not taking any chances. We had to learn the hard way that these threats can be real.

Anyway… sorry for the negative news.  On a more positive note tomorrow is my last day of work!  It is pretty bad that I am quitting my job because I do have expenses to pay (that I can pay with money from my assistantship) but I also have a credit card to pay (school stuff and stuff when I lived out on my own, in case you were wondering), so I am not going to have a lot left over.  But I thought about this long and hard and it was one of the adult decisions I had to make.  I need to have more flexibility for school and my graduate assistantship.  They want me on days that I have to work and it is hard to have that all worked out.  In addition, I am going to be back to baby-sitting during the days which is what I want to do anyway (work with kids) and so I am just praying that I will get the card paid off soon.  I hate knowing that it needs to be paid.  It isn’t a ton, but as I mentioned I’m a worry-wort and a perfectionist.  Sorry I am all over the place today.  It was just the adult decision I had to make to quit my job and be able to have more control over my schedule.

Also, the job while it has great bosses and great people, the people I specifically worked with were controlling and negative all the time.  It goes back to one of my previous posts regarding being negative all the time.  I just cannot understand how you can live in this negative bubble and not do anything about it.  God gives us free will to make choices and those choices are going to impact our lives.  You can choose to live it or you can choose to live the same way you are living and travel down the same path you were going and it is never going to change.  As much as you complain about it, it will never change it until you do something to change it!

*gets down off soapbox* I’m pretty intense when it comes to living your life.  haha.  I just have spent so long around negative people at work, that I either have to say what I need to or I would loose my mind.

Anyway, Happy Thursday people!  I am already pretty addicted to blogging.  Let’s hope it doesn’t get worse.