I am still working at Amazon, but about to go on leave. My other job called me two weeks ago needing me to work more hours so I put in notice. One of the rough things about being at a crazy job is they are all crazy jobs, and you just have to find what crazy works for you. At Amazon they drug test constantly so at least it leaves a long paper trail on me not being a party animal at all. I have never failed a drug test at any job, and this reference helps prove it. Ironically a huge set of news reports dropped on Amazon right as I was packing up.
Working with boxes makes me glad I have a University degree, and have worked a teaching job since 2019 over 4 years. Nothing makes me miss teaching work more than the 30 thousand steps I had to walk yesterday delivering boxes for a second job I work on school break gaps yearly. Every history lesson about why unions were invented suddenly makes more sense to me today. Ouch!
I am glad to be returning to work today at a second job. The first few weeks of summer vacation were great when I had no work hours at my job, but now I am completely bored playing too many games. Schools really need to reduce summer vacation to 1 month. I am back to earning money for my piggy bank today.
The greatest myth told to children is “you can be anything when you grow up” as a profitable job. No you are not going to be a cowboy, artist, rockstar, zookeeper, and astronaut as most people have learned. You go where the money is or you suffer.
Happy News this week as an old job I used to work at hired me back. My piggy bank will be somewhat happy soon. A misunderstanding was solved thank the heavens.
I am hunting for extra summer work, and the resume rules on what employers want seems pretty wild sometimes. They want you to be perfectly well dressed, healthy, educated, mistake free, and experienced, and yet willing to work for minimum wage at some jobs.
Many people do not realize most school buses are rust buckets that are falling apart. This month they tried to switch me from teaching to bus driving, and when I could not pass the bus driving tests on rust bucket buses they fired me from both bus driving and teaching. Applying for bus work if you are already employed in Virginia means you will be fired from teaching. They did not inform me of this until after I applied for bus work, and would not let me work teaching hours I tried to work.
Bus replacement and repair is expensive so dangerous buses are kept in service. Bus drivers are blamed for bus wrecks when bus maintenance is to blame. Working conditions and not pay are to blame for the shortage. Bus drivers used to have a written test one page long, and now it is 4 tests of thousands of pages on hot and snow-weather driving. It is almost impossible to pass even if you are great at doing job tasks. I could not do many job tasks in April and May of this year that involved going into a room full of men with military shirts and tattoos for bus training. I was assaulted at Fort Lee military base in 2005, and had to go to rape therapy for PTSD, night terrors, insomnia, and nightmares for years afterwards until 2017. If you don’t like a guy at a coffee shop or dance club you can just leave. At a military job you are stuck day and night with them for months. Since then many employers have tried to make me work alone, unchaperoned, with men with military logos on their clothes, desk, arm tattoos, and walls. I hate them for doing this with all my soul. I got punished this month for not doing tests well under these conditions.
I find it interesting in a morbid way how many men and women that were never attacked tell me how I “should” feel about it and “get over” it. PTSD means you cannot do that at all. Medication and therapy has horrible side effects, and helps almost nothing at all. Donald Trump was a 13 times accused rapist that massively cut funding to rape programs across America in his presidency so I cannot go back to therapy without huge personal expense. My insurance does not cover it. I now cannot pay for treatment at all. If you were wondering how lack of therapy can reduce employment remember I was an honors student in High School, and a University graduate before rape greatly hurt my earning power. Lily Duran dragged me to a military dominated area called Virginia at a horrible time.
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