I've been meaning to write a blog recently and since I don't want to go to sleep, here it is!! Ok so I graduated with a BA in Anthropology from Louisiana State University on May 15th. It was a very exciting day btw! But I've disappointed myself kind of because I had expected to have a new better paying job by now. At the moment I work as a pharmacy technician at Walgreens. It can be an extremely exhausting job and there is always a lot of pressure. Our store is one of the busiest in the district and due to manager changeovers has had numerous issues (mainly people quitting in droves). So basically my job sucks a lot. I'm tired of dealing with all these people that are batsh*t crazy and/or straight up drug addicts. Some of them are just plain sad. But I got the job for the money (better than most flexible hourly jobs) while in college, and some people can't even find any jobs right now, so I guess I should feel lucky??
Anyway, I feel as if things may be looking up soon, as a friend has let me know of a job at a library. I never thought of myself as a librarian type person but I'll try anything at this point. *And* it pays like $5 more than I'm making at the moment. Only thing is is that there's a test involved. I'm gonna try and take it Thursday. I love love love reading and it would be so much less stress. Maybe a little more boring but right now it sounds like a freakin' dream. Also my current job wants me to become certified, and that involves going to classes and taking this big test. I don't want to do it but if I don't and I don't get another job, I'll lose my permit status in January and won't be able to fill scripts. So everyone help me hope for the best (finding a job)!
Lastly, I reeeally want to pay off my car. I think it's kinda ridiculous that I owe 5200 on a 6 and a half year old car (03 Honda Civic.) I've always paid extra on it but I've decided to accelerate the payments and attempt to pay around $400 each time instead of the $261 that I actually owe. I hope I can keep it up. I will also be owing student loans in Jan. but that will be my only debt besides the car. I need to move out as well so that will be another expense. Does anyone else feel that they're just treading water and never moving forward? And then there's the love life right now= that's just another sad story. So that's about it for now. I've enjoyed everyone's updates and stories so much that I got excited about writing my own! Oh and one more thing! I've really wanted to see what it's like to be an extra in a movie/tv show lately, and True Blood, an HBO show about vampires, is filming here in Baton Rouge. I'm gonna send them my application to be an extra since they have an ad out. It's paid. Wish me luck on that one too! Thanks for reading!
Life and money update!
June 23rd, 2009 at 07:33 am
June 23rd, 2009 at 02:55 pm 1245765309
The Job Hunt
Paying the car off early
Getting the extra gig - sounds cool !
And the love-life
You seem to have loads going on !
Oh and congrats on your graduation !
June 24th, 2009 at 04:19 am 1245813560
and THEN there's the prospect of studying at uni - which is what my dad is always nagging me about. i keep putting it off, because i don't actually KNOW what i want to study. i also have this horrible feeling deep down that i'm going to flounder around and fail miserably at any course i choose to do, amounting massive hecs debt and achieving zip in the process...
so yeah.
treading water, to put it nicely.
June 24th, 2009 at 05:12 am 1245816761
November 28th, 2009 at 12:21 am 1259367713
Jerry