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CarrieS


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A little background before the good news (this is the long part):


I've been working 2 part-time jobs for a couple of years now.  In the last year I started working 60 hours/week, combined between the two, every day of the week.  I needed to do this in order to support myself.


One job is an assistant manager at a movie theatre and the other is as an assistant at my dad's office.  The theatre pays really horrible, at $8.25/hour, as a MANAGER (grrrr) and my dad's office pays $11/hour (much better!).  Since working at my dad's office, I've started craving "normal" hours at a job; off at 5pm every day, with weekends off.  Trust me, it's no fun working 10-5 at one job and then going to the next job from 5:30-1am, all in one day.  I've just been not thrilled with going to work at the theatre because of the pay and the fact that I want to be able to support myself off one job only.  I like the theatre itself, but killing myself working to pay bills and have a little extra has been getting to me.


So, just recently, my dad's company was bought (friendly, not hostile takeover-like ), and with that, there were some changes.  Before, with the old company, I only had to work 30 hours/week to get health benefits, but with this new company, it's now 40 hours/week.  I was able to cut my theatre shifts in half in order to do this, so I'm now able to work 8-5, Mon-Fri.  This wouldn't have worked if I still had all my theatre shifts, because getting out of there at 1am and then having to get up at 6:30am the next day was just not going to happen.


Also, with this new company, I would be getting a pay raise.  I started thinking that if it was enough to be able to support myself off that job alone, I could quit the theatre (because of the aforementioned reasons of not liking it).  If it wasn't going to be enough, I'd still have to work at the theatre.


After waiting a couple of days, I just found out yesterday my new pay, and........................It's enough for me to able to support myself off only 1 job!!!  I'm seriously beyond thrilled because I finally get my dream of being off by 5pm and having my weekends free!  No more killing myself working just to have money!!  No more working for crappy pay!!


I had to tell someone because I'm about to burst from being so excited!!


 



-- Edited by CarrieS at 12:47, 2005-04-29

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crystal


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congrats girl, getting an 8-5 job that u can support urself on is the best feeling!  just watch out tho, i went from going to school full time & working 2-3 jobs to graduating & working 8-5 & realized that i was completely bored in my off time!  since i've started taking classes at the local JC to kinda fill up my time, otherwise i would just get home at 5:30 and watch tv till bed time (sounds nice right now, but it gets old fast).  just a heads up tho, nothing negative.  good luck, hope everything goes smoothly for u!

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Good for you! I'm so appalled at the economy that makes your kind of situation necessary - glad it was only temporary for you! Enjoy your time off!

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Congrats! Don't you just love that new job feeling and seeing that pay increase.  I am just dying to start mine so I don't ever have to worry about hourly wages that I can't afford to live off of.  Now you can have hobbies or go work out after work.  You are going to love it.

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CarrieS


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Dizzy-I know, right?  I've had 2 jobs since about 1999, so I'm just thrilled to finally get away from that!


lsubatgirl-It's so funny you said that, because one of my first thought was "Now I can start working out regularly again".  I could have worked out regularly before, but it would always have to be at 9 or 10 at night, and I was never in the mood then.  Now I'll be able to get my workout done before that time!  I'll probably do it right when I get home from work now.


I'll still be paid hourly, but it's fixed (unless I get another raise at review) and it's considered full-time employment with the company, so that's definitely an improvement.


I can already think of stuff I want to do around my house....



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kenzie


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Congrats!!  That's so exciting.  I don't work two jobs, but I work insane hours and I'm salaried, so that really sucks.  I can't wait to find a 'normal' job with normal hours so that I can have a life and hobbies again.

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