Don’t Laugh At Me

It’s in my true style to wait forever to make an update after the holiday. Thanksgiving was nice. I went and did Thanksgiving brunch at my Gig’s house with Mom’s side of the family. For the afternoon I went and just hung out with Dad and them for a while. For dinner, Rudy brought leftovers from his house so we could have a small dinner together.

I didn’t eat a bunch and was fairly pleased with my ability to not stuff my face. It sucks having 2 families because you have to spilt your holidays and stuff but it’s all good. I don’t know how Christmas is going to work. I’m probably going to be so dead from the rush at work that I won’t care about the actual holiday. I’ll use it for sleep?

I can’t wait until Rudy and I can get our own place so we can host our Thanksgiving. I’d really like for us to have a nice place where I can have BOTH families come over and enjoy a nice meal. I see no reason why my Mom and Dad and Step Parents can’t come and have dinner with us at the same time.

I want to have those big traditional family gatherings, despire how non-traditional I am. Holidays have never really been a big deal but I want them to be. I’m really happy where I am in life and I’m very happy with my family affairs. Hard to believe I can say that.

I’ve recently been really exhausted from working all the time. It’s crazy with my schedule and what not because I never have free days where I have no obligations. I gets my 2 days off a week during the M-F times when I have school. So that means I have to get up for school. And when I don’t have school on the weekend, I still have to get up and go to work.

I’m a slave to work and school. I’m not sure how I feel about school anymore. I know I should be going and staying in it to try and get a degree but I feel like I could go places in Wal-Mart without needing a degree. It’s not that bad of a place. I could live pretty nicely if I can get into management.

I think I might be able to be a CSM soon. This has got me totally excited since I’ve been having my eye on a CSM position for a while. I took the leadership assessment and passed it so I marked the position on my preferences and I noticed that 2 positions opened for 3 days. I hope to get an interview soon.

I’m anxious about it big time. The money would be very helpful plus it will help me learn more things about the Wal-Mart Culture and Procedure to help me qualify to get into the management program. I look to manage my own store one day. That would be awesome.

Sure, it’s just Wal-Mart but to me it’s more than that. It’s my home. I feel comfortable with my co-workers and really enjoy it. My store treats me good and I want to go places in the company. I don’t have much backing on me for that because everyone thinks that Wal-Mart is evil, but I don’t think they are.

Anyhow, that’s really it. Thanksgiving then work. Today at work was just a mad house. We had 3 people at the Service Desk but the lines were out the door. It was terrible. The MoneyGram machine was having problems which held up a ton of stuff. I know a lot of things up there but I was just spread so thin today.

The job was demanding so much from me. I was trying to put out everything I had and it just wasn’t enough. The people kept lining up and it just made the pressure worse. There was a mess everywhere behind the counter and it was just unbearable. I haven’t seen it that busy in quite a while.

For now, that’s all I have to put out. More is expected soon if I can make it through the Holiday Shopping Season. It’s going to be a tough job, but someone has to do it.

-Ryan

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