Quoting my sister,
"I'm not getting old.
My body is."
My body is gradually
getting more wrinkled and
moving slower.
Sometimes it hurts and
sometimes I fall down,
and yet, I am thankful
to be able to experience more.
to enjoy more people,
to touch more lives
and to be touched.
I don't know whether or not
I will ever be ready to move on.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Unemployment
At different times after high school, I have been unemployed. It went on for as long as a year and as short as a week. I have had a job last for as long as six years and as short as four hours.
When I first came home from college, I tried to be a waitress, but I got fired from every waitress job I ever had. I did things like forgetting the banana on a banana split and pouring coffee in their water glasses.
It was extrememly hard to find a job in Fresno, California. I actually got a job the first week I was there. I worked at a snack bar in a grocery store. They hired me because I told them that I was an experienced waitress. I didn't tell them that I was fired from every waitress job I ever had. My employer wanted me to wait on the counter, cook and cashier. A customer ordered a patty melt. I had never heard of a patty melt. I was fired because I asked the customer how to make it.
I took any kind of a job I could get. I got a job tying tennis shoes together, I was trying to impress them with how fast I could do it. Instead, I impressed them by tying all the shoes with the toes pointing out, In other words on the wrong feet. I was fired. I felt so stupid. I cried all the way home.
I did some temporary work with Manpower and I kept checking the board at the unemployment office. One day a job as a file clerk was put on the board. When I applied for it, I found out that it was really a telemarketing job and was only one day a week. I used to call time and pretend I was giving them a sales pitch.
My family moved to Ventura, California. When I got there, I got very sick with a cold. It lasted about a month. I was supposed to apply for three jobs a week to keep my unemployment check. I cheated, I wrote down jobs I had seen in the newspaper and said that I had applied for them. It was obvious that I was too sick to look for work. The lady at the unemployment office told me that she didn't believe me, but she didn't tell on me.
When I got over being sick, I got a job at Sears selling panty hose. Around Christmas I got a job as a switchboard operator at the local hospital. I worked there six years.
When I first came home from college, I tried to be a waitress, but I got fired from every waitress job I ever had. I did things like forgetting the banana on a banana split and pouring coffee in their water glasses.
It was extrememly hard to find a job in Fresno, California. I actually got a job the first week I was there. I worked at a snack bar in a grocery store. They hired me because I told them that I was an experienced waitress. I didn't tell them that I was fired from every waitress job I ever had. My employer wanted me to wait on the counter, cook and cashier. A customer ordered a patty melt. I had never heard of a patty melt. I was fired because I asked the customer how to make it.
I took any kind of a job I could get. I got a job tying tennis shoes together, I was trying to impress them with how fast I could do it. Instead, I impressed them by tying all the shoes with the toes pointing out, In other words on the wrong feet. I was fired. I felt so stupid. I cried all the way home.
I did some temporary work with Manpower and I kept checking the board at the unemployment office. One day a job as a file clerk was put on the board. When I applied for it, I found out that it was really a telemarketing job and was only one day a week. I used to call time and pretend I was giving them a sales pitch.
My family moved to Ventura, California. When I got there, I got very sick with a cold. It lasted about a month. I was supposed to apply for three jobs a week to keep my unemployment check. I cheated, I wrote down jobs I had seen in the newspaper and said that I had applied for them. It was obvious that I was too sick to look for work. The lady at the unemployment office told me that she didn't believe me, but she didn't tell on me.
When I got over being sick, I got a job at Sears selling panty hose. Around Christmas I got a job as a switchboard operator at the local hospital. I worked there six years.
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