My 2nd Job
I have taken a second job. It is not that I don't have enough to do at my first job. In fact, I have plenty to do.
No, I have taken a second job for two reasons. First, on the weekends, I sit there watching TV and continuously think (which is not good). I need to get out of the hovel and do something with my time. The second job is for nights and weekends.
The second reason is, the extra little bit of money would be nice during this time of the season.
But it is not really either that motivates me most. Those are the logical reasons. Truthfully, I always wanted to work in a bookstore (as mentioned in my Utopia series) and now I am getting my chance. Granted I will be working in Seattle Best Coffee cafe' in Borders, but Borders is a bookstore nonetheless.
This is also a chance for me to actually relax at work. The amount of pressure involved in my new position is very low and requires an interaction with customers on the most basic level..."may I help you." I have always complained about how retail stores have provided less than stellar customer service, now is my chance to show them how to respect the customer.
Borders in fact trains their people to be courteous and helpful. In my first day of work, I was trained on the register and how to work with the customer. What I at first thought was going to be a mindless job ended up requiring me to kick-start some brain cells to learn about the 50,000 different types of transactions.
I know...you are thinking, "what?"
Yes. Well, I shop using credit cards. Some people use money orders, travelers checks, gift cards, prepaid credit cards, returned item cards and the all important cash. Don't forget my employee discount, my rewards discount, my personal shopping day. And that's not all! Magazines, newspapers, and books ring differently. There are food items, special food items (3 for a dollar), items that the bar code reader gets confused because there are too many bar codes. Oh, and don't forget returns, price lookups and rewards lookups. This still isn't even close to everything covered.
This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). Every job out the requires some form of thought. Whether it be the janitor that needs to know how to get green jello out of the beige carpeting that has been there since the previous summer, to the particle physicist trying to understand the shadows from a broken atom. Stepping into a job is simply not as easy as someone may think if they have either never done the job before, or have not performed that duty since computers became commonplace.
So don't discount the person who is going through training at the register at the bookstore. They may just be working a second job ther and they really manage computer networks.
Did you know...
Amazon.com sells over 150,000 books a day.
No, I have taken a second job for two reasons. First, on the weekends, I sit there watching TV and continuously think (which is not good). I need to get out of the hovel and do something with my time. The second job is for nights and weekends.
The second reason is, the extra little bit of money would be nice during this time of the season.
But it is not really either that motivates me most. Those are the logical reasons. Truthfully, I always wanted to work in a bookstore (as mentioned in my Utopia series) and now I am getting my chance. Granted I will be working in Seattle Best Coffee cafe' in Borders, but Borders is a bookstore nonetheless.
This is also a chance for me to actually relax at work. The amount of pressure involved in my new position is very low and requires an interaction with customers on the most basic level..."may I help you." I have always complained about how retail stores have provided less than stellar customer service, now is my chance to show them how to respect the customer.
Borders in fact trains their people to be courteous and helpful. In my first day of work, I was trained on the register and how to work with the customer. What I at first thought was going to be a mindless job ended up requiring me to kick-start some brain cells to learn about the 50,000 different types of transactions.
I know...you are thinking, "what?"
Yes. Well, I shop using credit cards. Some people use money orders, travelers checks, gift cards, prepaid credit cards, returned item cards and the all important cash. Don't forget my employee discount, my rewards discount, my personal shopping day. And that's not all! Magazines, newspapers, and books ring differently. There are food items, special food items (3 for a dollar), items that the bar code reader gets confused because there are too many bar codes. Oh, and don't forget returns, price lookups and rewards lookups. This still isn't even close to everything covered.
This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). Every job out the requires some form of thought. Whether it be the janitor that needs to know how to get green jello out of the beige carpeting that has been there since the previous summer, to the particle physicist trying to understand the shadows from a broken atom. Stepping into a job is simply not as easy as someone may think if they have either never done the job before, or have not performed that duty since computers became commonplace.
So don't discount the person who is going through training at the register at the bookstore. They may just be working a second job ther and they really manage computer networks.
Did you know...
Amazon.com sells over 150,000 books a day.
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congrats!