Well, I officially have a grown up 8 hour job....sort of. It's not technically grown up because it's still wage based, but it is eight hours. Which is nothing I've ever experienced Monday-Friday before. Normally I'm cleaning toilets or making freaky fast sandwiches or during school being somewhat grown up in helping students in their academic needs, but even that was only a three hour day of work. How am I going to make it to 8 hours every day five days a week? Hopefully it won't be that bad. Every other adult has had to go through it.
As for the job...the official title is Data Technician. I know sounds cool right? Well, it's really just a data entry position for a company that helps libraries put their catalogs on computer systems. So basically I'll be typing in the information into the system from a scanned catalog card. Sounds boring I know, but I think it will be somewhat rewarding since I'll be making more money than I ever have before ( and if you knew what I will be making you might think me slightly pathetic because it's not really that much) and it will give Sam and I the opportunity to save money for emergencies and life in general.
There is one thing I do dread though...telling the job that I've had for the past two weeks that I'm quitting and won't be coming back next week...Oops. Oh well they'll easily find another bozo to replace me. It's not that hard.
What's very cool is that entering data for a library was my first job in grad school, for which I was paid $3.75 per hour. In those days that was a lot of money and we were glad to have it. We were too busy feeding children to think about being grown up. In fact we were so grown up in those days that we never had a minute of fun -- and we liked it that way!!! (I'm cold!)
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