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filed in Uncategorized on Jul.23, 2003
I started at Barnes & Noble on Sunday. This is something I’ve wanted for a couple of years, as some of you know. So far it’s great, but I know I’m going to have trouble doing two jobs and school. I’ll have 15-20 hours at B&N, and 16 hours (times two for homework) at school. I want to still work at Coyote when I can, but I don’t know if I’ll have time for it.
I don’t know if I really want to keep working at Coyote or not. Casey wants me to, for the money. On most shifts at Coyote I make about the same as I would make at B&N for the same length of time (take home). But on some shifts, like most Saturday nights, I make more than I would make in a whole week at B&N. I just hate working there so much. It’s so much stress on me. I feel bad not wanting to do that extra work though, because Casey is doing so much work now that she’s a manager at Casual Corner, and she’ll be working forty hours during school.
I still haven’t told my manager at Coyote that I have another job. He probably knows by now.
I guess I have three or four weeks to decide what to do. Any suggestions?
July 23rd, 2003 on 2:11 pm
Arrange to work at Coyote on the weekends, and B&N on weekdays…?
Should work for them, should work for you…? =)
July 23rd, 2003 on 2:32 pm
I just don’t know if I can handle the stress of Coyote and still do well at school in the little bit of time I’ll have left. On the other hand, I’ll feel very guilty saying that I have to drop Coyote in order to stay on top of school because Casey is working so hard. I feel like it’s unfair to her, even if we don’t need the extra money I would make.
July 23rd, 2003 on 2:42 pm
hey there — i’m commenting (1) cause I was a server once and i know the pain (oh the pain!) of it and (2) i noticed that you used “I wanna dip my BALLS in it!” for one of your earlier posts. awwwww yeahhhhhhhh. I LOVE the state….
Here’s my two-cents worth: ditch waiting tables and see if you can just work more hours at one job. I waited table for 3 years while I went to school full-time, and it was agony. Not so much because it’s such a mentally-taxing job, as you know, but because it’s just so stressful and even humiliating at times. I know the cash can be wonderful too, but it’s a lot of strain to take all the same. Bartending is a bit better, should you ever want to try that. But being a student is stressful and hard enough as it is, take it easy on yourself. Working and going to school at the same time is a noble thing in the first place — or maybe I’m just saying that cause I did it too. :p
July 23rd, 2003 on 6:34 pm
Could you work Coyote solely on weekends?
July 24th, 2003 on 1:57 pm
I’m glad someone else agrees that waiting tables is a mentally taxing job. I really didn’t expect it to be.
July 24th, 2003 on 1:58 pm
I don’t know if I want to, or if I’ll have the time.
August 11th, 2003 on 11:23 am
I don’t want to be the reason you flounder in school. I don’t want to push you so hard you’re unhappy. Do whatever you want, and I’ll support that. I’ll come up with the difference.