Man I am gettin' so bad at not posting these things when I should, lol. Here is what has been going on with me the past few weeks.

So I’ve now officially been working at the CD store for ten weeks, two weeks long then I worked at the video store. I guess you can say that’s a good thing, since this will be the longest job I have ever held onto (I’ve only had two, the CD store and the video store, lol). The job has been going great minus some small problems that have arisen, such as almost accidentally burning down the store; but that is a story for another time. Oh, another fun little bit of info that I found out the other day; the video store that I was working at had me listed as a part-time worker, when I was working fulltime hours (and then some). This is fun because the health benefits vary for those that work part-time compared to a fulltime employee. So I would have been screwed out of medical help if I had needed it.

Well I am now almost settled with all my AC plans. I have my registration and hotel booking done; and in the new few hours have my air travel booked. Thankfully my rooming situation should work out fine, since it was kinda up in the air for a bit due to some certain issues. Now I have one of the things I had planned for this year crossed off my list of things to do.

Speaking of things that I had planned to do this year... Sadly some of them are looking to be impossible, at least for achieving this year. Well in all truth, currently it is just one goal out the window. As I look at it more carefully I can see that moving out on my own (minus taking up a collage residence), will not be possible for a while. I want my friend (whom I have planned it with) and myself to be standing on a nice mound of cash, and have some stable jobs before we get a place. I am DETERMINED to get my own place, but I am willing to wait, so that I can get, and keep it!

Unless something else pops into my skull in the next five seconds... Oh! A few days ago I also checked out the collage I plan on headin’ too. It seems like a pretty nice campus, and the information session really calmed me down when it comes to my portfolio requirements, somewhat. The man who was addressing us on the courses and the portfolio requirements said that, it didn’t matter if we drew well in our portfolios, just so long as we got a message across, that they would teach us how to draw. I kinda think though that he was lying, and that they will be looking at how well people are drawing when they choose to accept you or not, lol, but who knows?

So, now unless something else pops into my skull... Nope, nothing. I guess I will close this journal off now. Take’er easy folks!

-Shenro

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Ack, its been awhile since I last posted. So much for the biweekly updates. Sorry about that folks. Here's whats been going on in my life the past while, and I'm gonna keep it short, as I think I should with all my journals from here on. Just makes it fast for everyone to read in the busy schedules.

So I left my job and the video store, after getting a new one at a CD store. After these next two weeks I will have been working there as long was I was working at the video store, and those weeks have flown by. This only means one thing... That I am REALLY enjoying working there. The only real issues I am having is looking up bands, or movies (since we sell those too), for people, or having to deal with our customers over our exchange only policy. Still learning a few things there, but I work with some great people, their all laid back. I am feeling a little "concerned" over money, since I have a $2.50 cut to my pay from when I was working at the video store. The only major spending I am allowing myself will be on my Gym membership, and Anthro Con, maybe a pair of new bondage pants too (with one other possible little expense, but that is between and two other people, you know who you are )... MAH BANK CARD IS UNDER LOCK DOWN!

My Christmas faired well. Got a new photo printer for my computer, some books, and movies. I also bought myself a Christmas gift, for me, from me. A nice 24'' wide screen monitor. X3

Now I hope everyone had a good holiday themselves, and that you are able to pursue and archive your New Years resolutions. Here are mine as follows, and they WILL be archived! RAWR:
-Make it to AC '08.
-Develop greatly artistically.
-Get into Graphic Design in collage (the previous goal, determines if this one occurs).
-Move out and get my own place.
-GET SOME FREAKING NOTICEABLE MUSCLE MASS.

If anyone of these is not completed by the end of this year 2008 shall have been a waste of time. ^^ Lol, I'm just kiddin' on that. As long as I am able to get my life going in a direction that I want, with some of these completed (or started) I will be happy. As long as I have tried to do these things, it'll have been time well used.

Hey! This year marks my 3 years on DA! And my 20 years of life on the planet! Sweet...

Peace yo.

-Shenro

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Okay, so a quick summary of the past 2 weeks.

I had to work the inventory from 2am-9:40am, instead of from 2am-5am... And was threatened with termination if I did not do it right (and I was still 2 weeks new to the job)... Which almost happened if not for them catching what was missed. I worked after that on the same day from 6:30pm-11:30pm. I was not a pleased wolfy. ^^

So the following Friday (when I was off), I went in to talk to the manager about my schedule, and she was understanding, and listened well to my concerns. So the following 2 weeks schedule were very nicely made to suit me better. Regardless of that, I did warn her that I maybe departing for a new job in the near future.

For the following week after, the manager was gone, and left our still in training assistant manager in charge. She is really cool, and nice to all the other staff. Offered me a ride home one night when I was going to call a taxi anyway, got coffee, or other drinks from a coffee shop near the store for the staff working. She pulled me aside the other day because she need to get an idea of where I stood when it came to me continuing to work there, and we talked about issues that I was having, and she complemented me a lot on things. I was told by her that she really apprenticed that I came in ever day of my shift was scheduled, that I did everything that I was asked to do as best as I could, really like my organization, and said that I was a very laided back guy (which was a shock to me, never thought I was), honest, and that I had balls for talking to the manager, though I don't know why! So she told me off the record that she would be willing to even be a future reference in my job search (which she said she has only ever give 3 other people in the past permission to use her as one), and even recommended a place or two I could go to, one being a CD store in the mall, which I was thinking about when I started my job hunt, and I am thinking of trying now.

Now I'm back on the job hunt, reapplying to the book store (since they said if I had a change of heart I could always try going to them again), and gonna try that CD store too. I hope I can get at least close to the cash I am making right now. I have big plans, and I need money to do them! A dollar or two in either direction doesn't phase me to much. Just so long as I get a better working environment then currently (like wearing my normal clothes, having stable work hours, nice co-workers would be cool too). Hope for the best for me guys! I need a change soon!

As for my social life. I can't wait till the weekend, got my buddy Tsujo coming up, and I get to hang with him for a day. ^^

Take'er easy guys!

-Shenro

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Well this is depressing...

I find job.

I work at job for two weeks.

I wanna find new job...

Perhaps I should explain the events of the past few weeks.

So I accepted the job at the video store and began working the first two days doing simple task, such as organizing older movies out of a big pile so that we could pack and resell them. Now I'm a guy that likes to get things in order, so this made my first few days fairly enjoyable. The following days I was given more complicated tasks, and that is dealing with the blasted cash register. I swear you need to take like a class in order to work it properly, the program on it was not made to be user friendly. Not only do I have to learn how to use this crazy contraption but I have to learn and commit to memory all the deals, offers, and special programs going on in the store. The store I work at is also part of a corporation that deals in mobile phones, so I have to deal with phone bill payments, etc. Having to deal with customers that don't understand the purpose of policy (that has been in place for a good while), and get mad about it, is the only real problem I am having with dealing with customers at all. I don't seem to mind it to much, people are just being people.

I'm not pleased with my scheduling for the job. I stated in my interview for the job that I was able to work from 9AM to 10:30PM (because of bus scheduling), and yet I've been put to work till 12:30am at night, and this week I have to work inventory from 2-5am... The only way I have been able to make these times is that I've had my folks to take me to work, which will end by the end of this month. I've had them take me to work because I'd have to dish out for a $40 a month bus pass that I would have only been using for less then half a month. Now looking at the two schedules that I have gotten, there are only two people that have any consistency in their schedules is the manager, and the one of the mentally handicapped girl that works in the store. I cannot stand being tossed around time wise. I would like to have some knowledge of what time frames I am working in, so that I can plan ahead. Not having this has really been screwing with my plans of getting back to the gym, as I cannot set my internal clock to wake me up to go in the morning, or have a set idea of what time in the evening I can hit the bus and go, as I am always messed up because I run out of time to do things so quickly when I return home from work, that I can't go.

I've just become so stressed out over all this stuff. I don't think I'll be able to go into everything, cause it just all wants to get out. When I go to work I become this third person. All my positive energy that I have stored gets used on keeping stable at work, being friendly to customers and co-workers. When I get out of work I sink into a state of depression. I end up going over the events of the day constantly in my head, and think about how the next day of work is going to go. I do not looking forward to my days off, because they aren't really days off, their "review what you've done" days.

I have no social life to distract me with, also as I said above I don't even have the chance to go to the gym to distract myself. But as for my social life I've become friendly with my co-workers, but not "friends" I would say. Sometimes I don't like dealing with the more experienced of the employees, they sometimes come off as a little, high and mighty I guess. An example of this being the other day. You see one of shift leaders was cleaning up our really messy 7 day video rentals (I wanna note, because I haven't made mention of it yet, that the store is undergoing some drastic clean up after, from what I've been told, the previous management did not take care of the place very well). Anyways I was bringing movies to put back on the shelf, and since she seemed busy with organizing the shelf I ask "Do you want me to just leave these here, since you have a certain way that your doing things here?" and she kinda gave off this little huff and gave me this look and said "NO, YOU can put them back". Granted she could have been annoyed at the mess of things, but geez... Another example of my annoyance with the state of running things is when I was moving some cases, and one gentleman came up to me and asked the price of a certain snack we we're selling. So I took one and went over to one of our cash registers (at this time there was a little line forming at the registers) and scanned the object. While I was checking the price one of the other shift leaders came up to me and said "You should be helping these customers waiting in line." which I replied "This gentleman just came up to me and asked for the price on this snack, I was helping him." and the leader replies "That doesn't matter." to which I was thinking "Umm, this customer came to me first while I was out on the floor, I'm just suppose to ignore him?" some peoples logic escapes me... So now you can see why I am only friendly with my coworkers.

The only actual flesh and blood people I talk to outside of work are my parents. This matter of me switching to a different job has added more fuel to the "I can't wait to move out" fire. So I'm talkin' to my parents (and its mostly my mom replying back, surprise, surprise), about me calling back the photo and the book store that called me back (a week and three weeks after I applied there respectively). So when I'm talking to "her" about it, she starts lecturing me, and I don't think she watches what she says sometimes. Three weeks ago when I was in a bad state because of my job hunt, my mom made the comment that I "wasn't looking for a job hard enough" to her liking... Now while lecturing to me about this whole situation she says "I knew you should have waited on accepting the video store job, and gone in for those interviews at the photo and book store" I was so ready to snap at this point. First I'm not looking for a job hard enough, then I'm all of a sudden to quick to take a job... So she gets done with that, and going on about other stuff that I already know, I get up to go back to my room to calm my head my mom says to me "I love you" which I reply in a mumble "Love you too..." then she says "No hug or kiss, or thanks for the talk mom?" Ooooh she loves to get my feral rage going... If you want gratitude, NEVER ASK FOR IT, it sucks all meaning of it out of an airlock.

So I've decided I am going to call the photo store tomorrow and see if they still wanna interview me, and stop by the book store again and see if their still hiring when I go to blow my first paycheck (and boy am I'm going to need to after dealing with all of this)...

The one thing I hate about this the most is to just up and leave (granted I will do the two week notice thing once I found out if I get a new job), when all these people have put time into training me. I feel like I'm just as bad as those folks I was complaining about when I was having difficulty getting a job, the ones that don't care about their work. All that time and effort gone into getting me set up in this job, just out the window...

Can't begin to explain how badly I feel right now...

-Shenro

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The Northern Wind 10.0.0

Well I guess I'm gonna start slapping these journals back up on DA and FA, since most people I know are around here instead of LJ. I'll just keep more personal or hush-hush stuff on LJ more then likely...

Back again with a life update! After hunting, and hunting, I have finally gotten a job.

Last week I went out on another job hunt after not gettin' any calls back from any of the places I applied to. Handed out some resumes to another drug store, a dollar store, and to a video store. After not getting any offers for at least an interview, I get them throw at me! When I went into the dollar store and gave in a resume, I was told to come in the next day for an interview. The next morning I also get a call from the video store I applied to, and got another interview to go to an hour and a half after the one at the dollar store.

So that day I hopped on the bus and headed over to the dollar store, and headed in for the interview, the thing only lasted five minutes. All they had was a list a questions that they just quickly went through. I left and was left with over and hour and a half till my next interview. Deciding it was best to get something to eat, a quick snack at least. I walked next door to the Mac Donald's, and grabbed a fry and coke, and texted people on my cell, wasting away about a half hour. Heading across the street to another block of the commercial area of uptown, I stopped into the comic store I applied to. Took a glance at their small selection of toys, and some comics. So to waste some last few minutes I walked around the area, then headed over to the video store for my interview. It went well. I had a good fifth teen minute interview with the stores manager, where she told me strait out what she was looking for, and problems that had been affecting the store. Those problems were more then half the reason I was getting frustrated in my job hunt, employers hiring people that don't care about their work. More then likely because they have a few months experience at a fast food place that they ditched out on, while those of us that are hard workers can't get anything because of lack of experience. Anyways, the manger told me to come in on Wednesday at 8:30 is I wanted to work there, but if not to call in and say so.

After some quick thought I decided the video store would be the best place for me to work. The pay is pretty good, its uptown and close to my house, etc.

The following day I get a call back from the photo store from a week back that I went into look for work at, for an interview. I told them that I had already found a job but thanks anyways... Two days after the book store I applied to three weeks ago calls me in for an interview! Lol, well I quickly told them the same thing.

So today was my first day on the job. All I did was get things in order for my pay, social insurance, and my special employee rental account. The only work I did was repackage movies back into their respective DVD cases, so that they could be resold. The pile of movies was rather large, but I got through most of them. So either someone is finishing that up tonight, or I'll quickly finish tomorrow, before they show me how to run the cash register. The next few days my work hours are 10am-6pm.

The Paw Print 1.0.0

The past while (at least a few days) I've been drawing a few pictures for a character reference sheet. I just have two more images to finish and I'll be colouring and uploading it hopefully, so keep a look out for that.

So other then that, I'm outta here!

Take care!

-Shenro

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