First Day at Starbucks
Well, today I started working again. For the first time in almost two years. I haven't had a serious job since I left Garry's Grill before I transferred here to NYU. Let me tell you, working sucks. However, I already feel more empowered by my efforts and more depressed by my shortcomings.
I make $7.50 per hour - starting wage. Even on a shitty day at a restaurant I could make $10 per hour or more. If I work 20 hours a week, I won't make half as much as I would need each month to pay my rent, feed myself, buy new clothes (which I need) and have spending cash leftover.
Simply put, Starbucks won't cut it. Despite my enthusiasm for working there, I need more money than they can offer, which means I'll still need to be looking elsewhere for a restaurant gig. If Chilis hadn't fucked me over with they're pretending to be interested in me, I wouldn't be in this boat. I'd have found another restaurant and have had 8 months to have pestered them into hiring me.
For now, the chump change I'll be making at Starbucks will tide me over, easing some of my credit burden and allowing me to, at the least, have more money for some of the things I need now.
However, for now:
Nothing splendid was ever achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to the circumstance.
Also, it is good to note that J. K. Rowling was on unemployment when she was writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It's nice to think that, should I be able to take the seed of an idea and help it blossom and grow into something beautiful and interesting, my labors may be rewarded after a time. Then again, Vincent Van Gogh was poor and crazy when he died, and it was only after he departed from this world that his work was considered valuable.
Boy that must suck.
I make $7.50 per hour - starting wage. Even on a shitty day at a restaurant I could make $10 per hour or more. If I work 20 hours a week, I won't make half as much as I would need each month to pay my rent, feed myself, buy new clothes (which I need) and have spending cash leftover.
Simply put, Starbucks won't cut it. Despite my enthusiasm for working there, I need more money than they can offer, which means I'll still need to be looking elsewhere for a restaurant gig. If Chilis hadn't fucked me over with they're pretending to be interested in me, I wouldn't be in this boat. I'd have found another restaurant and have had 8 months to have pestered them into hiring me.
For now, the chump change I'll be making at Starbucks will tide me over, easing some of my credit burden and allowing me to, at the least, have more money for some of the things I need now.
However, for now:
Nothing splendid was ever achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to the circumstance.
Also, it is good to note that J. K. Rowling was on unemployment when she was writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It's nice to think that, should I be able to take the seed of an idea and help it blossom and grow into something beautiful and interesting, my labors may be rewarded after a time. Then again, Vincent Van Gogh was poor and crazy when he died, and it was only after he departed from this world that his work was considered valuable.
Boy that must suck.
posted by Dave at 8:37:00 PM
5 Comments:
Quit your bitching fool.
See? Told you she had a cool backstory.
Welcome to Starbucks, congratulations on being hired! muahahahahaha. Now you can never leave.
Also, tell Kate she HAS to come to NY with us. It wont be nearly the same without her.
Kate, go with your friends. And I can bitch as much as I want; I rather think that at this point I'm somewhat entitled to be pissed off.
Your Father Said:
NO! You can't bitch...it's time you rejoined the workforce and earned some money(which you will come to enjoy greatly, if you can recall that period of your life when you were employed...long, long ago). As I write this your mother is here beside me laughing her ass off! Actually, I know this is not what you want, but it will all change and you will be able to buy your own frickin' Starbucks one day!!!!! Remember...we believe in you and love you!!!!!!!!
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