Ok, so I truly suck at this whole blogging thing. I sort of forgot this even existed and thought that I had deleted it (like I do with most things) but then checked out my bloglovin' profile and was like wow look at that! Anyway, I think the last time I wrote here was like way back in the beginning of summer? But then...well....life happened.
This summer I got a job working for a department store. I was so desperate to find a job as quick as possible so my dad could stop telling me every 5 seconds about how I need to get a job and giving me lists of possible jobs, so before I knew it I was training for a job that would require me to be in work by 6am. 6AM!!! I have never, ever been a morning person and usually I like spending my summers slipping into a horrendous schedule where I make entire meals at 2am and fall asleep somewhere around 4am. I am also a night person for other reasons such as my boyfriend. We are long distance and he lives in a different time zone so we primarily can only talk late at night. So now here I was with this job that required me to be at work at 6am. I could not believe it and I HATED it.
Since I was the newbie and also had a completely free schedule, I got put on all the terrible shifts. I worked 6am - noon most days and I had to work the "doorbuster" shifts every Friday and Saturday (except for that one special Saturday I finally had off). I also got a few 8 hour Sunday shifts. Suddenly my summer, which I had imagined would involve me spending lots of time with friends, reading and taking my dogs for walks, flew past before my eyes. I usually crawled home everyday after my shift and would sleep away the day because I hadn't gotten proper sleep before my 6am shift.
Before I knew it, I was quitting my job and getting ready to head back to school. Terrible summer! However, it's been a few months now and I am able to reflect back on my job and I realize that it really was not that terrible. I had a really fantastic little group of coworkers who also did my particular job and they were all so sweet and I really bonded with one of the girls, who was around my age (I think she also just appreciated having someone her age to finally work with!). I was also able to work independently a lot and I didn't have to interact with customers much unless they asked me a question. I also ended on a really fantastic note with my boss who said I was welcome to come back anytime and I'm actually considering working there again next summer!
I've somehow managed to just write a huge blog post about my summer job, oops! So, yeah, like I said, summer flew past with barely any free time and then I started my first semester of my junior year at college and now that's almost over as well. It seems that as I get older, the years just go by so quickly and it's so stressful!
I've got 3 more finals and 3 more papers to write and 1 1/2 weeks of school left and this semester will be done! I really do want to try to get into this blogging thing more but it also involves quite a lot of dedication and work that I'm not going to promise I can commit to. But for now, I'm off to relax for the day since I've had a very stressful week and then I must pick back up with studying and paper writing tomorrow (and also squeeze in some Christmas shopping). Au revoir!
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