smokingpen | September 29, 2004
I did something, today, that may be a little stupid.
There’s a recruiting company in Boston that, a few months ago, actively pursued placing me with different companies and then, nothing happened and life changed and I decided to go to school. They started calling me again and were offering me full-time positions at a couple of companies and today I turned them all down unequivocally. I’ve decided that my finishing school was the most important thing in my life and as such, taking a full-time job that got in the way of my completing, at least, my bachelors degree was not possible. I felt, and said as much, that I needed to allow my focus to remain on school.
Category: school, work |
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smokingpen | September 28, 2004
Another day down. That is yesterday. Yesterday was another day down. Four days at Borders Books, etc., and I am still kicking – though a development has arisen that can have negative consequences.
Category: driving life, religion, work |
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smokingpen | September 24, 2004
School last night was a different experience for me. In BritLit we went over the test we will be taking, in two parts, next week and the teachers (a name I still don’t remember) kept asking for answers to the questions that we will most likely see on one of the tests. The experience was interesting and she let us out an hour and a half early. Because school and home are enough of a distance apart I decided to stay at school and read up on Richard III for my Shakespeare class.
Category: books, logic, school |
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smokingpen | September 22, 2004
Second day of work. It was six hours of being trained on things that I know or intuitively understand as the trainer went over the same things again and again and again. Of course, this was for someone other than me, because she, the other person, had never worked in a bookstore, never worked in a situation where she had to look up product, and never worked a cash register. Therefore the questions that were brought up, along with the answers, were designed for someone who didn’t understand what was going on and yet wanted to work at a bookstore.
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smokingpen | September 20, 2004
I started working, today, at Borders Books. Borders, for those that don’t know, owns Waldenbooks a competitor of B. Dalton and Barnes and Noble. Of all the book stores out there, I have to admit that the darker, more somber atmosphere of Barnes and Noble is far preferable to me than the more open and clearly lighter atmosphere in Borders. However, we don’t have a Barnes and Noble within reasonable driving distance from where I live in Pembroke, NH or where I am going to school and so, I applied to, interviewed at, and was offered a job with Borders Books in Concord, NH. This is the smallest paying job I have had in a very long time.
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smokingpen | September 18, 2004
Yup, I have survived another week in New Hampshire and things seem to be going okay. Not exactly great, but okay. I start work on Monday at Borders books. It’s been a few years since I’ve worked in retail, but some job is better than no job; and I completed week two of classes and signed up for at least one class for next term. So, things are okay.
Category: book reviews, religion, school, siblings, television, work |
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smokingpen | September 14, 2004
Moved the links under the Calendar and added a place you can click to e-mail me. Someone *cough cough* Rebecca said something about having to click through to many links to e-mail me… *cough cough* add me to your contacts *cough cough* so there it is.
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smokingpen | September 13, 2004
So, I was asked what set me off on the color Pink.
The answer to that is: The Color Pink. If you know what I am talking about then I don’t have to explain and if I have to explain you won’t understand.
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