These are the voyages...

Welcome to my first blog entry. My friend Trisha (http://troublewithtrisha.blogspot.com) suggested I make one of these because I have "interesting tales", and since I had three hours to kill between classes with nothing better to do... well, here we are.

It's been an average day. Accounting class was easy (good thing, because that's my major); Art History was boring. Not much to report there. If you already know me, you may be wondering what the hell I'm doing wasting my time in an irrelevant class like Art History. I'd drop it if I could, but unfortunately I need it in order to maintain full-time-student status. Without that, my financial aid could get screwed up.

I've been wondering lately what to do about my work situation. I'm a delivery driver at Domino's Pizza, and I have been for almost ten years now. It's a good job with okay pay, and flexible scheduling (important because of school), but it's also not going to help me at all in the career I'm trying to pursue. So far I've come up with two viable options.

The first option is to be a cash counter at Carowinds. Not a glamorous job, and it pays slightly less per-hour than Domino's. It also won't give me full time hours until the summer. The upsides are that it's relevant experience to pad my resume for a future legitimate Accounting job, and the scheduling is flexible, so that I could continue my classes unimpeded.

The other option came through a friend of mine, who said I could almost certainly get a temp Accounting job at his company if he recommended me. This job would pay better than Domino's (and much better than Carowinds), it would be full-time, and it would give me actual, real-life Accounting experience; the downsides are the possible temporary nature of the job, and the very rigid schedule would basically force me to drop two of my classes at school.

All I know so far is that I'm going to apply for both and see what kind of response I get. If I get job offers from both places, I'm not sure what I'll do.

Other things weighing on my mind right now include the in-progress remodeling of my house (I just finished painting the living room!), my father's blind determination to move out of the assisted living home and into his own apartment, and the certainty that if I continue on the diet and activity level I'm currently on, I'll turn into a fatass before the year is up. If any of that sounds interesting to you, then stay tuned for future entries!