So I've become a bit desperate. I've been trying to find a "real" job all summer, as I am graduating with my MA next month, and am expected to make some use of myself. Also, my part-time restaurant job cannot provide me with the hours to pay my rent. So, in the meantime, I've decided to try and find another part-time job to supplement my income. I just applied for a job at Borders, which I think would be a nice place to work, but is in fact depressing for a couple of reasons. First, both my best friend and my college roommate worked at Borders when we were nineteen. They both have respectable post-graduate jobs/endeavors that they're working on, and I'm trying to get the job they did when they were nineteen. Secondly, the freakin' application took me about 45 minutes to fill out and asked for all but my mom's favorite color when she was ten. All of this, and there's the possibility that they're not even hiring. Thank you war-time economy.
I guess I'm just being a little bit of a baby about things, but this whole job hunting process has been a shot to my self-esteem. In any case, I don't even know if anyone reads this thing, but if you're reading this now and know of good company that is looking for a bright, friendly, hard-working girl to work for them, hit me up. Gotta pay them bills!
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I worked at Borders! It was my first job when I moved to Atlanta in fact. I helped open up the Borders near Wolfgang Puck Express. It was pretty terrible. I had the super early morning shift where I organized the magazines. The plus was that I got out by 1 and didn't have to interact that much with customers, but of course the downside was going into work at 4 or 5 AM. If anything, it was cool that I knew what all the new releases were, and that I got to read on my lunch break.. but in the end, I was just too tired to do anything but take a nap during my breaks. I think I've only went into that Borders once since then.
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