Mmm... Beer...

I think I'm going to like my new job a lot.

• I get to wear jeans to work.
• It's a desk job.
• I actually have to use my brain.
• I deal with beer.
• I get a discount on beer.
• The people I work with are nice, helpful, and are ok with me asking a million questions.
• I'm salaried, so I won't ever get yelled at for going into OT.
• I actually get to use my degree occasionally. 
• The office manager says "fuck" every other sentence, so I don't have to censor my language anymore.
• I end up getting about a month of training in the office and out at corporate, so I may actually have an idea of what I'm doing by the time January rolls around.
• I do something different all the time, so I probably won't be bored ever.
• The hours are perfect. 
• I have weekends off.
• I can actually pay my bills, eat, and have money left over on my current salary, which is a very good number for an entry-level position. Plus, I'm up for a raise after 6 months and 12 months, and then yearly after that.
  

Prepare yourselves. I'll be a beer snob by the end of the year.

The only things I'm not too happy about are the drive and the spiders. OMG THE SPIDERS! There are spiders all over the friggin' office! The drive isn't that bad since I'm going the opposite direction of the heavy traffic, but my car just doesn't get good enough gas mileage to be driving 41 miles round trip every day. Good excuse to get a new car next year!

I GOT THE JOB!

'Nuff said.

INTERVIEW!

I like caps lock this week.

Remember how I said on Wednesday that I would know whether or not I got a second interview by next week? Well, they gave me a second interview Thursday morning. Seriously. Less than 24 hours after the phone interview, I had an email wanting to set up an in-person interview with the owners. They must really like me, which is good because I want this job more than any of the jobs I've applied for. It's perfect. The interview is Monday morning.

I went out and bought new dress pants for the interview since the one pair of good pants that I can actually zip are two sizes too big and have to be safety pinned at the waist. The other dress pants I own are two sizes too small. J is going to kill me, but that's ok.

Speaking of pants, I really appreciate how clothing companies are finally starting to realize that tall women exist and are making more pants in tall sizes. Now they need to figure out that those women who have to buy tall pants also have to buy shirts, skirts, and dresses with longer measurements. I'm sick of only being able to wear t-shirts and men's sweaters because those are the only things long enough. I want to wear cute shirts and blouses. I want to wear the cute sweaters in the women's section. I want to wear dresses again. I've not worn a dress since I was 17 because that's the last time I was short enough to wear a dress off the rack. Yeah, I could buy a new sewing machine and make my own dresses, but I really don't have the time for it.

WOOHOO!

Funny how fast things go sometimes... Right after I posted my last post on Monday night, I applied for a job. Just one. It was the only new posting that I hadn't applied for or at least looked at yet. I heard from HR Tuesday afternoon, and just had a phone interview about an hour ago. Woo! I'll know next week whether or not I get a second interview in person or not. This would be a excellent opportunity for me since they promote from within, have benefits, are actually hiring instead of firing right now, and the company is growing and obviously doing well since they just bought and moved into a larger building two months ago.

Cross your fingers for me! I wouldn't even have to move if I got this job!

It figures.

Still no more interviews, and my store is closing after the first of the year. Great. They're not firing us, but I have to figure out what store I want to go to. I'll probably be back down to 10 hours a week when I transfer. I'm looking at around 40 hours per week until Christmas, but that's still not much when you work for peanuts. Hell, I don't even work for the nuts. I work for the shells. Sheetz and WaWa have a higher starting pay than what I currently make after a promotion and two raises.

CA is looking better and better right now.