jobs

Been pretty lazy with blogging lately.
and job hunting
and dealing with holiday photos


Come to think of it I've been pretty lazy since coming back from Egypt/UAE about 20 days ago.  True, I've been sick, sometimes a fever so bad I wear three layers of clothing when others are in T-shirts.  But I can't shrug the fact that I have been lazy.


I couldn't find a proper job after some insipid searching (google) and decided to cop out and try for a walking job.  No interview, no resume required; just a name and address, then account details so they could pay you.  The real thing started last monday, collecting and sorting junk mail and local magazines.   


I stacked them on this child's play pram, on top of which I tied a massive box and metal frame stuffed full of papers.  'the more the better', I thought.  


I start wheeling it, feeling its weight.  
I roll it slowly down the slope, backwards so it wouldn't run away
I change it's angle so it rolls out to the driveway instead of the roses
....and the whole thing just completely collapses and folds away in front of me.
The papers are everywhere on the driveway and garden.  I've trashed the pram and have not even delivered a single one of the 354 i've been given.


I had to completely rethink how I was going to do the job and resorted to carrying some in a luggage wheelie roller thing which didn't carry many more than 30 copies.  I feel like i spent a lot of time wheeling the thing and carrying some more in my arms going past houses i had already done.  Then even more time wheeling the thing back empty because it ran out.


Childishly, I thought getting a job was like pokemon; they're hard to get sometimes, but once you get it it's good fun because even though it's hard work that pain is tempered by knowledge of money flowing in.


I was so very wrong.  It is quite simply hard work which left me exhausted for hours afterwards.  When I tell my mum about it, she replies with a knowing smile.  She know's i'm soft from years of not having to work.


This job isn't the best.  As a friend said, a job as a cashier or something like that would be much better.  As the old saying goes though, 'beggars can't be choosers'.  In the professional world, I am not much more than a beggar.  For now.