College Chronicles

It’s so refreshing to love my job.

For those who don’t know, I applied for a job as a writing consultant in August. I had an interview shortly after- the woman warned that she hadn’t hired freshman before due to the lack of college writing experience. I still gave it my all, and I thought the interview went great.

Near the middle of September, I was offered a position as a greeter, and told I would perhaps start being trained as a tutor/consultant in the Winter quarter once I’d acclimated to college ((the job is at the Writing and Communications Center on campus)). 

I went to the fall pre-training, met everyone, and had a blast just getting to know people and having a rundown of the flow and atmosphere of the WaCC. Even though I was the youngest, everyone treated me like an equal, which made me a lot less nervous.

Last week was my first shift, and about halfway through, the soon-to-be manager approached me and mentioned offhandedly how he’d been the last to know about me being put on the schedule so soon. I asked what he meant by that because I didn’t really get it.

As it turns out, the manager reviewed my work and my contributions at the pre-training session, and decided she wanted me to be trained as a tutor right away. Honestly, I’m so flattered and honored that they think I have what it takes already. I’m giving it my all so they know they made the right choice in hiring me and letting me take on this position even though I’m new to college.

I’ve been flying through the training process, and my mentor says I’m honestly doing fabulously. I could start conducting consultations as soon as the end of October, but realistically it’ll be closer to the middle of November, I think. Either way, I’m very encouraged by their faith in my ability. From the moment I got the job I’ve been giving it everything I’ve got; when you’ve something to prove, it honestly does make you work so much harder. And being a young, inexperienced freshman, I have something to prove. Not in a competitive way, though. I just need to show I have the aptitude and the capabilities that a junior or senior can offer. And it looks like they’re putting that faith in me- I’m pretty sure I’ll get more hours, too! 

It’s so much easier to work hard for a job I love.

Work was interesting. .-.

And by interesting I mean some dude came in this morning and smeared feces all over the dude’s bathroom so my manager ((a.k.a. my mom)) had to spend like an hour cleaning that up and if that asshole ever shows up again in the restaurant we’re calling the cops. 

This happened before I got to work, but I feel so bad that my mom had to deal with that…. blegh. Thinking about it makes me pissed as hell. .-.

In better news, at least the evening was fun because one of my favorite peeps was there and we nicknamed the Spiderman figurine in the office “Pumpkin Piederman” in honor of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. 

But seriously we get some freaking messed up customers at work. Fast-food workers deserve serious respect for putting up with some of the people we have to, real talk.

Fun Fact: Customers who are nice literally make my shift every time. Like, there was this family that came by tonight and they were super polite and very pleasant while I took their order, and thanked me several times when I brought their food to them (I work in fast food so that’s not really required). I was so enthralled by how pleasant they were, that when their child made a huge mess of hot sauce on the floor, I didn’t even feel inconvenienced or irritated to clean it, especially because the parents began to apologize for it. It just really makes me happy to do my job when people are polite and easygoing, you know?