Status: Employed

Brookstone.

Is it Really Time Off...

...if nothing happens in between?

I was lucky enough to be extended an invitation to do the rest of Phase III. The deal isn't quite as good (phone and gas are included in the base pay, instead of the way things were done the previous two times, each of the aforementioned being additional to the amount in the past), and it also requires 'clean-up' of Phase II, in which nothing had been done in the intervening 5 weeks since my contract was over, despite having left detailed notes.

So: I am very grateful to have the work (I even postponed my other job to do this), but it's not like the prime deals I enjoyed the first and second times around this particular block. The Big Bonus: working outdoors in a place I have grown to love during the best season of the year in New England!

Job Hunt

Okay, this is getting ridiculous. How do I not have the experience or job skills to manage a CVS? I have been managing movie theaters, bookstores and sports memorabilia stores for nearly fifteen years! I have been opening and closing locations for Blockbuster Video, Barnes & Noble and BC Sports Collectibles for seventeen years. It is absolutely insane that so many companies are taking a pass on my skills and experience. I guess America is undeniably in its slow decline (leaving the world for China to plunder as it sees fit), just like the Roman and British Empires of old, if paying kids a low salary to do a half-assed job is more important than hiring & paying a man of quality for his wide-ranging experience.

Looks like my future lies in heavy lifting or washing dishes...