Day 4787 September surprise
Sep. 16th, 2005 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wren08I've always maintained that September was a month of surprises and new beginnings for me. (It also happens to be one of my favorite months.)
Something really good and really unexpected happened today... the last few minutes before we closed the store, one of my favorite customers called and offered me a job. Inside... 40 hours a week or close to it... not weather dependant... Monday through Friday... $8 an hour. Uhhh... how fast can I say yes? There aren't any benefits.. she runs her own small business.. but I don't have benefits where I am anyway. And she wants me. Not just someone who can do the job but me, specifically. That feels so marvelously good! The funny thing is that, while she's a customer of mine, I'm also a customer of hers... She's a massage therapist and when I have gotten into a bind that I couldn't work out, she's fixed it for me. Now, for various reasons, she needs a receptionist who can also be a cashier, a sales person, do a bit of data entry.. ie, a girl Friday. Sounds like what I'm doing now except for the heavy physical part. And I get to wear real clothes and not feel like I've been dipped in grease after work. I could even go straight from work to a PTA meeting... something I could not do now.
It's time I got rid of this permanent tan I've had for the last four years... and the impending skin cancer that goes with it.
I'm very excited... and a bit nervous. I always am when I'm starting a new job. I won't actually be starting for a little bit. I want to give notice where I am and smooth over any bad feelings... especially since the owner of the business I now work at is a client where I am going!
Something really good and really unexpected happened today... the last few minutes before we closed the store, one of my favorite customers called and offered me a job. Inside... 40 hours a week or close to it... not weather dependant... Monday through Friday... $8 an hour. Uhhh... how fast can I say yes? There aren't any benefits.. she runs her own small business.. but I don't have benefits where I am anyway. And she wants me. Not just someone who can do the job but me, specifically. That feels so marvelously good! The funny thing is that, while she's a customer of mine, I'm also a customer of hers... She's a massage therapist and when I have gotten into a bind that I couldn't work out, she's fixed it for me. Now, for various reasons, she needs a receptionist who can also be a cashier, a sales person, do a bit of data entry.. ie, a girl Friday. Sounds like what I'm doing now except for the heavy physical part. And I get to wear real clothes and not feel like I've been dipped in grease after work. I could even go straight from work to a PTA meeting... something I could not do now.
It's time I got rid of this permanent tan I've had for the last four years... and the impending skin cancer that goes with it.
I'm very excited... and a bit nervous. I always am when I'm starting a new job. I won't actually be starting for a little bit. I want to give notice where I am and smooth over any bad feelings... especially since the owner of the business I now work at is a client where I am going!
