I haven’t really done one of these in a while, so I figured it was about time.
I’m about two weeks into the new job, and it’s going pretty well. I’ve never seen myself as a salesperson, so it’s definitely taking some getting used to, but I think I’m starting to get it down — at least, being able to sell two cameras yesterday helped my confidence a bit. Cameras are probably one of the few things aside from Apple computers that I even could sell without feeling somewhat dirty afterwards, though — trying to sell something I didn’t like or care about just wouldn’t work for me.
Of course, there are pros and cons to mall jobs. For instance, the schedules can be very flexible…which will be nice once school starts and I’m working around classes. Right now, though, while we’re re-adjusting around a new hire who didn’t work out, my expected day off today has instead become a 11am-8:30pm shift. Not a major catastrophe (I’m flexible enough right now to be able to do it, and it’s a few more hours), I just won’t get the cleaning I was planning on doing today done until later on this week.
Also — while Prairie and I were planning on going to Alaska this Christmas, it looks like that won’t be happening after all. Initially I was planning on leaving Kinko’s in late December, spending a week or so in Anchorage over the holidays, and then getting a part-time job to go with school starting in January.
The more-sudden-than-I-expected departure from Kinko’s and subsequent acquisition of a retail mall job just a couple months before the Christmas rush has changed our travel plans. It’s just not realistically possible to expect to be able to get much time off at all over the Christmas shopping season, so we’ll be staying here in Washington after all, and we’re looking at coming up in the summer instead. A bit of a bummer, but that’s just how things have worked out.
Other than that, things pretty much progress as usual. My posting frequency here has certainly slowed down as I re-adjust to not just living with someone, but living with someone I’m dating. When Prairie was still living in Ellensburg we’d chat via iChat each evening, which made it very easy for me to multi-task, browsing the web and tossing posts up here while we were talking. Now that we’re both in the same apartment, I’m spending a lot less time in front of the computer (gee, imagine that!). We’re finding the balance point to make sure that we both get our respective “me time” (which, in my case, generally involves sitting in front of the ‘puter), but for the moment, I’m pretty much perpetually behind in my reading and keeping up with what’s going on in the world. So it goes!
And…that’s it for now. Gotta get going on that whole getting-ready-for-work thing…
Transitions between jobs do take time, and I can’t imagine the other thing of living with your date and staying away from the ‘puter. Transitions are hard, but hopefully it’ll work out for the best for ya.
I can tell the not-posting-as-often, I’m still waiting for your ‘Serenity’ review. Here in Argentina it opens on Decemeber 1st, so I still have some waiting to do. Hope you can find the time to finally write that down.
Greetings from the south.
Hey Anchorage friends, email me at cam@thebizlist.com
Marty I want to catch up with you, I work in Seattle in Wallingford at http://www.uptimetech.com!
Cam
It makes sense, but we’ll miss having the two of you!
Although — I can’t see you suffering TOO much from a change from December in Anchorage dark to summer in Anchorage summer sunshine! ;)
Heh — admittedly, summers are more my style. We do need to make it up during the winter at some point, though, as Prairie’s a native Washingtonian, and is quite excited about getting a chance to see “real” snow, the Northern Lights, and take a ride on a dogsled. So I won’t escape a winter visit forever!
I second Berta’s comments. We have been in the situation you two are, and understand, though we will miss you.
Yea, Prairie!