48 x 7.75 = I love my job

    Man.  Crazy week.  Let me tell you.

    Of course I'm going to tell you.  What else would I do on a blog?

    Since I didn't work the last 1.5 pay periods, my boss scheduled me eight hours a day, six days this week.  Not that I don't desperately nee the funds, as I am soon going to be unemployed and sorely tempted, monetarily speaking.  However, it makes for excruciatingly long days.

    

    I was worried when I first took this job that, since every day is pretty much a cookie-cutter copy of the last, I would become easily bored and disgruntled, and dread going to work, which is one of my worst fears in life.  When I nannied last summer for these two kids, there was a month-long period where they were children of the corn and I would have sawed off my own leg to not have to go, even if I did get paid $8 an hour. 

    But soon into my employment as a sandwich artist, I discovered that, though there is a definite routine to the days, each day is still much different than the others.  I'll spare you the details (refilling the cambros, teriyaki-ing the chicken, and de-paper-ifying the cheeses, though exciting to any Subway employee, can dull even the sharpest minds of outsiders) except to say that it's really the people I work with that make the hours worthwhile.

    For instance, this week.  Six days in a row, same resources needing to be restocked every morning, 1000 songs on a "Subway Radio" playlist...not necessarily an endless supply of joy, laughter, and entertainment for all.  But I have thus far been pleasantly (and...er...sometimes not so pleasantly) surprised by how varied this week has felt--keeping me on my toes and giving me at least some little thing to look forward to everyday besides the tuna aromatherapy and my minimum wage.  

    Basically, what I'm saying is, I'm very happy with my job currently, and though I'll be excited to get new sneakers that don't smell like cucumbers and oven cleaner and be able to sleep in past six and eat my lunch without bread being involved, I am going to miss Subway while I'm at school this year.  

    Anyway, that's all I had to say.  I know it was extraordinarily interesting for you =D

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