Weekend Update
Whaddaya know, I have Super Bowl Sunday off work! I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to actually watch the game. I really have no interest in either team. It does give me a good excuse to order pizza or something though, heh.
School is going ok so far. I have a Supervision/Leadership project due in two weeks, and a Marketing test coming up. I think that if I can make it to spring break with good grades, I’ll be just fine.
The new job is… hmm… new. As much as I will miss my old job, I’m looking forward to focusing on just one thing. Having my attention split in so many different directions with the two jobs and school is difficult. Also, I know observation is important for learning, but I’m so used to doing things when I’m at work (cause that’s what they pay me for – doing things) that just watching makes me nervous. I feel anxious like I’m going to get in trouble, even though rationally I know that’s silly. Technically, because of the split with the old job, I’ve spent an equivalent of 9 days training. There’s only so much a person can contribute in their first 9 days, right?
Stupid work ethic.
Day One
My first day of in-room classes is tomorrow! Have I mentioned the classes I’m taking this spring? I got a little over-excited to graduate in May, so I’ve got a pretty full load. I’m taking two online classes, Marketing and Supervision/Leadership, and two classes that meet in-person, Managerial Accounting and Microeconomics. The nutso thing? I don’t even need the Micro class to graduate, but I like the teacher and it’ll transfer so I signed up. Of course, when I did that I did not know for certain that I’d be training for a new job at the same time…
My brain is either going to love me for challenging it so much in such a short period of time, or it’ll spontaneously combust.
I know summer seems a long way off today, but it’ll be here before I know it and the slower pace will be quite welcome. I foresee strolls along the river bank and juicy peaches! *grin*
Day 28 of 30
I’m soooo clooooose to the end of the month. I shouldn’t quit now, right? *sigh*
We’re currently talking about employment law stuff in my Monday night class, which is interesting. We focused a lot on sexual harassment tonight, and at one point the teacher asked the women to raise their hands if they’d ever been sexually harassed at work. About half the women raised their hands.
Half.
Half! That’s too many!
My arm went up since he didn’t specify that the harasser had to be a fellow employee. There were many times while I was working at the gas station that customers said inappropriate things. I can remember a particular conversation two of the mall maintenance guys were having about the shape of my backside… it clearly wasn’t intended to be a private conversation.
Sometimes I’m really glad I’m not in my twenties anymore, and sometimes I’m even glad that I’m out of shape because I encounter far less of that sort of attention.
Library
The book I reserved made its way to my local library today. The husband took me over after work to pick it up. I haven’t started reading it yet, and there’s really no guarantee I’ll finish it, but that’s sort of the beauty of libraries. If it doesn’t meet my needs, I can just give it back.
I got The Elements of Persuasion, and I picked it for two reasons. First and foremost, it’s a book about storytelling. While I make one heck of an audience, I am not a natural storyteller and this is something I would like to learn more about. Second, it’s a book about selling, which is something I’ve learned painfully little about in my business management related classes.
Hopefully it teaches me something, but if not, there will be many more books to try.
Community College
I hope it can be established that I’m not a total idiot. I think it’s also fair to say that I’m not the brightest bulb on the tree. Thing is, sometimes attending community college makes me feel like a freakin’ rocket scientist. We got our second test back in my Legal Environment of Business class tonight. I got the highest grade. Again. At least this time he didn’t announce my name… he just said what the highest points earned was, and it matched what was on my paper. Anyway, I had to read two of my essay answers aloud, and I promise you these were not stellar essays. But, they still managed to be the best in the class.
It’s a really excellent thing that I follow lots of brilliant people on Google+… they help keep me grounded/keep my head from growing ridiculously large for no good reason.
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