I finally got a part time job, at a certain casual upscale sandwich shop chain, for minum wage (which is $7.65 here in Mo). I think that any job that pays their employees less than $8.00 an hour doesn't take their employees seriously, at that point they are just nickel and diming people to poverty. I told myself I would not make any less than that (since thats what I started at my last job as a cashier two and a half years ago). I was tempted to tell the manager to fuck off, and walk out, but I was desperate enough not to. At least it seems pretty easy and modestly fun and casual, and it will be at a brand new store very close to my house.
I spend pretty much all my time job searching online, which may sound kind of lazy until you realize that most places that aren't restaurants do applications online in 2015 and not in store. Or at the least, they advertise jobs online. Even the ones that don't, need a copy of your application and resume anyway. Its a waste of time and gas to go to 5 places in an afternoon, only to have 3 of them tell you to apply online, and other two take your application but shove it under the other 50 and never call you back.
Jobs and I don't have a great relationship; I have worked some seriously unpaying laborious jobs and I basically refuse to put my body at physical risk for a job ever again. Sometimes, working culture in the U.S. seems like modern indentured servitude, especially compared to those Europeans with their required vacation time and socialized healthcare darn them.
I have first months rent saved up for a place and i'd like to move out by May.
Job hunting is quite frustrating, and the past 6 moths have been pretty grueling. Working multiple jobs is now fairly common too, what the hell happened?
Oh, and uh, my 20 year old sister graduates Marine boot camp in 2 weeks.