Hi folks. Sorry about the slim pickings lately — I’ve been diverted by my interesting life situation (no job — the temp assignment ended and there aren’t any coming up except one part time position that I haven’t heard about yet — and I’ll probably be evicted before my lease ends on May 3rd, so good-bye deposit), so I haven’t been able to concentrate on anything else. I’m at my wits end.
Needless to say I am having another fundraiser. If everyone who read my site (and the other sites I keep up) contributed just a few bucks I might be able to at least stave off the eviction notice.
Added: my goal is $1500.00. That should pay my rent through the next month and also let me pay my utilities. In the meantime, I’ll try to actually post something more interesting than me whining about my problems.
Update: just to be on the safe side I arranged for the rental company to pick up the washer and dryer. If I get kicked out of here and the manager has to have the machine picked up I know I’ll get charged up the yin-yang.
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March 25th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Andrea, I can’t do a thing this week, but I can kick in a bit of a pittance next week (payday is the first). It can’t be much, but it’s the least I can do. I’m only sorry it has to wait so long.
Handsome Son-in-Law is out pounding the pavement for a job today – got laid off Friday, has 2 interviews this afternoon. And a side job doing yard work on Thursday. Must be nice to be healthy & 23…
March 25th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Yeah, when I was 23 I was… well, I was healthy, but pounding the pavement in the South Florida heat was beyond me. Though I’ll tell you, I’m starting to think more kindly of going back to my first job ever, which was a cashier at Publix. That was in the very long ago, when I was 18 — to give you an idea of how long ago that was, only some of the cash registers had just been kitted out with scanners. Anyway, if I wasn’t afraid of what happened last time, which was I caught the flu from a customer and kept passing out at the register, I’d apply. In fact, I might just apply. You can do that online now…
There’s Walmart as well.
PS: darn washer, the spin cycle will bang no matter what I do. I could have one measly thing in there and it will get out of balance. I thought it would be a great thing to have a washing machine in my apartment, but now I’m glad I’m getting rid of it.
March 25th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
The only place I ever ran a cash register was McDonald’s (I worked at a LOT of ’em) & the dry cleaner where I worked in California. When I was 23 I was working construction, stonemason’s helper. In Texas. It was the first time I ever saw a scorpion (& being Scorpio that really meant something to me). Also the only time I ever worked in that kind of heat & humidity for servant’s wages.
Handsome Son-in-Law had an interview at the Publix warehouse this afternoon. I have 2 friends who work for Publix, one as a cake decorator, she just transferred to Chattanooga (lucky broad) & the other as asst mgr/cashier who’s only getting scheduled 3 days a week for some reason & he’s pissed.
My job doesn’t pay well, but the benefits make it worthwhile. Good luck, anyway?
ps – have you considered Home Depot?
March 25th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Well, Home Depot is nearby, and so is Lowe’s. Actually I hadn’t considered retail at all, until today. I’ll probably go tomorrow to several places and apply. A job is a job. I’m also still waiting to hear about that part-time position with the county.
March 25th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Sorry to see that the situation remains not good. Sears in Cape Coral gives me between 22 and 27 hours a week (at seven dollars an hour): they refuse to do more than that because 29 hours is, whether in the World of Sears or in Florida law or practice, what begins ‘to count’ as ‘part time with benefits’ (which benefits, so far as I can figure out, comprise the possibility to buy health insurance out of one’s own pocket and and paid holidays at Christmas and Thanksgiving). Wendy and McD are both hiring (yes, online applications, ha) but my 300 each fortnight (200 of which goes to rent…) leaves me just enough to pay the monthly bus fare (the beach!), buy a few minutes for the telephone and texting service, and stock the pantry with ramen, radishes and Navy beans, ha. Things are very tight but just on this side of being so tight that I will actually go to McD etc. But when the weekly scratch-off lottery ticket eventually pays off, believe me, I will share the largesse.
March 25th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I think that benefits don’t kick in until 32 hours, but I could be wrong. I’m not even worried about health insurance at this point — I just want a steady paycheck! Must think positively…