I'm still applying for permanent positions and trying to hook up with staffing agencies as I prepare to transition from waitressing back into office work. I'm realizing that maybe I'd like to temp for a while before committing to another full-time permanent job. Yes,...
All right you HR people who have been out of the office in December: it's time to pick up that pile of resumes (or rather, open those computer files of resumes that have been emailed to you) and see mine. And contact me.Staring into the abyss of no job at all in...
At the beginning of the dinner shift, the office manager called me into her office and told me, "At 7:00 tonight, you're going to get a party of six at table 84. Here's their credit card on file. Just charge their bill to this Amex." I took the paperwork and thought,...
Yesterday I talked to the general manager about leaving the restaurant to go back to office work. I told her that starting in January, I'd be working with some temp agencies and would need my weekdays free, but I could keep working weekend shifts if they need me. She...
If I'm quitting music, I might as well ask: so who wants to hear these songs I've been rehearsing and recording and trying to find a buyer for? I'll try to think of a fair price and decide if I want to just fling these songs into the world without a proper CD or...
So I've been applying and applying for administrative support jobs and I'm getting very little feedback. What do you think of this explanation that I got from a friend of mine:A man who hired and fired people at Illinois Masonic (a hospital) for over 30 years says...
So I cut back to four shifts a week because my body can't take the physical pain of waitressing full-time and I'm driving more because the Chicago Transit Authority train line that I take is getting worse every week. These changes mean I'm not using my monthly CTA...
I'm going through job ads, I'm applying, I'm interviewing, I'm trying to gauge the damage I'm doing to my feet each restaurant shift I work. I'm trying to decide if I should give my two weeks notice when I find a new job or when my feet reach a certain level of pain....
After three years of waitressing, which started when I was 38, I can no longer deny that my body can't take it. My feet are developing problems, I'm tired of the late hours and the restaurant industry itself is getting a bit stale for me. All signs indicate that the...
1. Working six shifts a week at the restaurant.2. Still trying to finish up the eight original songs I recorded last month.3. My man is gone until November.4. Trying to head off a depression.5. Feeling like I can't keep working six shifts a week for much longer. Hate...
I finally told my boss at the restaurant that I lost my other job and am available for more shifts (for now). It's very weird to explain to your boss that another boss fired you and you can't even say why, especially when she (the restaurant general manager) considers...
After two weeks of feeling bad about getting fired, eating cake, putting on weight, soliciting the opinions of friends and blog readers and trying to listen to the comments that made sense, I think I'm recovering my confidence. Some have told me they believe this...
Today I woke up after four hours of sleep and suddenly remembered that I have friends who earn money in some way from the vocations they have chosen (art and music) and I did too, but then I got fired. I've been fired from my musician job. I'm sure it's just as well...
Well, just when I had achieved the closest thing to happiness I guess I'm capable of, I had to come back down to earth. I've been having a great time as a baby music teacher, but I've also been a bit stressed out about it. Each week I've been drilling the songs on my...
So, about a month and a half ago, feeling determined to start working my way out of the restaurant business, I began scouring every help wanted ad I could find, in print and online. All I knew was I that I didn't want a job with regular business hours, Monday through...