Finishing School, Gettin a Job

I am doing one, have to get to work on the other. Hopefully this will be my last summer at the ole Wal-Mart. I dont even know for sure that I will be able to work there at all. I mean, I would imagine in the worst case scenario that I could grab a cashiering gig somewhere in the store, hopefully at least at my present wage.

I suppose I have a decent chance of being able to work at one of the 2 1-hour photos within about 10 miles of my place. The people I have seen working at the store in Lockport, while they dont appear incompetent or bad, seem to not be extremely experienced. They can probably use a "Photo-Lab Specialist" who knows his ropes around the Frontier machines which I think they have only had for a couple months. Maybe not, but its worth a chance.

I really just hope I dont have to end up at some food place or something. I mean, I am not worried about getting a job here, but if it isnt going to be in a Wal-Mart photolab, or somewhere cooler, I dont think I will be able to handle full time.

I mean, I don't think I will have to work full time if I don't want to. After I get my bill with Buffalo taken care of I really only need to be able to pay for my July and August bills. Those really aren't that bad, they can be narrowed down to like 850 dollars a month, so with about 1700 or so I think I can get by. I mean, I would be able to do some work on writing and reading and stuff over the summer. I would certainly have things to do.

It would be less than I am rolling with now, but I am, in all honesty, living fairly comfortably. I mean, I eat at home most of the time, I don't really do anything outside of my house, I dont drink much. My smoking is only about 15 bucks every two weeks and that will be gone by July anyway.

I might even be able to get by without working until the end of May, assuming I get a paycheck during the month of June and one during the start of July, at least, I should be able to get by. I would imagine that to be overwhelmingly possible.

I think I have only two serious days of work left on school shit. So I should at least have a full weekend between school and summer work shit. I think next year I may even be in a situation which would allow me to not have to work during the summer.

In a world where Katie and I combine incomes I think the summer won't be too bad. I mean, imagine that I only had to pay 300 a month for rent, and pretty much half for the rest of the bills (the bills will remain the same, obviously, we will just be paying them together which, for all practical purposes cuts them in half...you know what I am saying here, I mean, I am not so good at the whole "articulation thing" but you got me) meaning that if we each have 1000-1500 bucks, we could be a to the g on the whole thing.

Regardless, I need to go into Wal-Mart tomorrow. In some ways it will rock, I like working there as much as I could ever enjoy a retail environment. Notably, I doubt I will have people who are as solid as Ryan and Steph and Kathy and Shannon (I mean, seriously, how are you going to match up to Kathy, its really not likely), but still, I think something about photo labs attracts some real fucking characters. As a gig which is by no means intended to be permanent, it rules.

Peace,

MB-K