The Guilt Trip is Effective
I have been working since I was 15 years old. Crazy times, let me tell you! My first job was actually a "hook-up" from my grandpa. He worked at Symetry Corp. for some construction company and they urgently needed a receptionist [cha-ching]. So there I go, all unexperienced, to my very first job, mondays thru fridays, and starting at 6 o'clock in the morning. Worse yet, it was during the summer! What was I thinking??!Most people that know me have probably put two and two together and realized this job isn't quite my cup of tea. I'm too restless to be sitting on my booty all day long and mailing stuff. Leo gets so mad at me sometimes because he says I can never sit all the way through a movie (I'm either getting up to go to the restroom, clipping my nails, sudoking, crocheting, getting a snack, excercising, fiddling with my hair, plucking my eyebrows, and what not). It's his explanation for why I never remember anything and why I have to watch the movie three of four times before I can even qoute it. WHA' EVER. Anyways, back to what I was talking about...
I pretty much blew it within a couple of weeks. Summer jobs at six in the morning are retarded. It's just not feasible to be in bed by ten and rested for the morning during Summer break. I tried to pull off that trick from high school where you put a book right infront of your face during "reading time" to pretend your reading when your actually snoozing (while miraculously maintaining conscience alertness in case the teacher walks by). The customers kept-a-coming and becca kept-a-falling-asleep anyways. My ill-fortune with the "snooze-a-not" trick unfortunately landed me in the managers office a couple of times.
Okay, the "snooze-a-not" trick didn't work...so I tried the guilt trip. The guilt trip is when you remind yourself of everyone and everything and every celestial power that has got you this job in the first place while simultaneously pondering the gazillions of people that would die for a job period that you are taking so lightly and still pining even more over how you've screwed up already so as to somehow keep you from screwing up in the future. The guilt trip is actually very effective...not so much on a fifteen year old per say, but it has proven it's effectiveness now than I'm twenty-one.
So if you don't remember anything, anything at all, after reading this blog...leave with at least this: that the guilt trip is a cost effect way to live up to your responsibilites and carry them out successfully (especially when over the age of eighteen). Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd, I'm out.
posted by Becca @ 5:56 PM
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