Hi Raul! I have great news. My shifts at the Sky Cupcake & Coffee didn't
work out for me. I suppose I need more experience in customer service.
However, I applied with Skyway Telemarketers, and am working 30 hours a week with them!
When
I saw the e-mail from you, I went and visited them on Wednesday. Even
though it was after 2:30, I happened to catch the receptionist, and she
set me up for an interview at nine the next day. Then on Friday I went
back for training, and started work this Monday. Today is my second day,
and I think I'm doing well! Along with my 30 hours there and my 8-20
hours at Starland's, I am working plenty, and it works well with my schedule
and religious accommodation to have Saturdays off. Thanks for all your help!
I apologize for not making my e-mail more concise; I hope it helps that I bolded the main points. :)
If I ever want to apply to Skyway Foods in the future, because I happen to really like them, how best would I apply?
Also, can I come get my gift certificates when I'm not busy? I don't know when that will be, though. I don't leave myself much time to pause.
My
last bit of good news is that I am no longer homeless and about to move
into a very safe room in a shared house, inexpensively rented to me,
and near one of the Ascadia Community College campuses so I can get education in the future.
Thanks,
~ Cara Lowing, Full-time Employed Worker!
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Friday, May 2, 2014
Is this the right one?
This is Cara. I am testing my e-mail to blog feature. If you are reading this message, I got it sent to the right place! Heh heh.
Friday, April 18, 2014
I just wanted to say that today, I'm going to work at the Ascadian city market I was talking about, at Sky Cupcake and Coffee. It's a coffee shop next to the city market in Ascadia, lifted up twelve street-levels high in the sky, serviced by blue-sky elevators (and stairs for the athletic, A.K.A. los locos).
Because the shop and market are set up on the twelfth level with a class B hovercraft system by Tristian Mechanics Inc., we attract clients from Tetra Company and the district palace here in Ascadia. In contrast, a store using a lower level hovercraft system like Hovercraft Speed! Co. or LockFloat (tm) wouldn't attract high-end customers because of the accident associated with those systems last year. Of course, those companies have reinforced their system's lift quality, but it has made a difference for our clientele regardless. That means I have to be up to professional game level as an employee at Sky Cupcake and Coffee!
I'm scared, because I've never held a full-time OR part-time job before. Can you believe that? At my age?
(I'm.......... um........
I'm 25......)
I like to blame it on my upbringing, but I don't know if it's appropriate. After all, I had a pretty great upbringing, a comfortable childhood, and loving parents. I wouldn't say that happens to everybody.
The requirement my family has for me in pursuing a worldly career out here in the "wild" (i.e. the normal world, where there are cities, and people who don't go to my church, and, you know, the grouchy people!) is quite an undertaking for me. However, I think I'm starting to realize why it's mandatory.
See, there are homeless people here. There are grouchy people. At work, they expect you to be on time. Responsible. Dependable. You have to wear what you're told to wear, and you have to quit sneezing (I do that a lot) and be polite, and kind, and give great customer service!
It helps to be non-argumentative, too. I've just noticed this. Yesterday, my new boss disagreed with me whether or not she was the one who hung up, or if it was I. I really can't know for sure whether it was me or not, but now I realize, I should have apologized! But instead, I argued with her. Isn't that terrible?!
Don't argue with you new boss. That is so not smart.
I think I have a problem with authority. I'm going to get over it now! A ha ha ha....
My computer time is up! I have to go now. Thanks for reading about my adventures in Arcadia! I will tell you more next time. Bye bye!
Because the shop and market are set up on the twelfth level with a class B hovercraft system by Tristian Mechanics Inc., we attract clients from Tetra Company and the district palace here in Ascadia. In contrast, a store using a lower level hovercraft system like Hovercraft Speed! Co. or LockFloat (tm) wouldn't attract high-end customers because of the accident associated with those systems last year. Of course, those companies have reinforced their system's lift quality, but it has made a difference for our clientele regardless. That means I have to be up to professional game level as an employee at Sky Cupcake and Coffee!
I'm scared, because I've never held a full-time OR part-time job before. Can you believe that? At my age?
(I'm.......... um........
I'm 25......)
I like to blame it on my upbringing, but I don't know if it's appropriate. After all, I had a pretty great upbringing, a comfortable childhood, and loving parents. I wouldn't say that happens to everybody.
The requirement my family has for me in pursuing a worldly career out here in the "wild" (i.e. the normal world, where there are cities, and people who don't go to my church, and, you know, the grouchy people!) is quite an undertaking for me. However, I think I'm starting to realize why it's mandatory.
See, there are homeless people here. There are grouchy people. At work, they expect you to be on time. Responsible. Dependable. You have to wear what you're told to wear, and you have to quit sneezing (I do that a lot) and be polite, and kind, and give great customer service!
It helps to be non-argumentative, too. I've just noticed this. Yesterday, my new boss disagreed with me whether or not she was the one who hung up, or if it was I. I really can't know for sure whether it was me or not, but now I realize, I should have apologized! But instead, I argued with her. Isn't that terrible?!
Don't argue with you new boss. That is so not smart.
I think I have a problem with authority. I'm going to get over it now! A ha ha ha....
My computer time is up! I have to go now. Thanks for reading about my adventures in Arcadia! I will tell you more next time. Bye bye!
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
News!
It's really quite silly what I've been avoiding talking about.
Yesterday, I was trying to tell you, in my entry, is that I want to make sure, that in the future, that I continue to rise out of my rags. See, you can be middle-class. You can be upper-class. You can be low-class. But what happens when you settle for something? When you say, "Hey. this is good enough for me. I am satisfied with the way my life is."
To look at it negatively, that's limiting yourself. I mean, I don't want to be negative about it if you are truly happy and satisfied. But there is a difference between being satisfied with an accomplished goal and just having given up, and making yourself feel better by saying it's good enough.
Now, it's good to admit when something is enough. Maybe I put less emphasis than I should on the good things I've accomplished in life. But all I'm saying is that I mustn't do what I know I might do: and that is to get back to a place I'm comfortable with, where I have a place to live and a way to support myself, with something that someone else might find satisfactory, and tell myself that it's time to rest, or that it's enough, and forget what my true desires are. Supporting myself is already such a new horizon, I might just consider it good. But it's not! how can I forget what I truly want? Do I even know? If I come to a place where I'm happy, I mustn't stop there!
Ahead of me might be an untamed wild and a rising sun on a bright, colorful horizon. That doesn't mean the wild is the only place I'm going. There are ladders in the sky.
And if I stop to explore the wild, and allow myself to forget my wish to climb, I'll never get there. I'll never reach the true me. I have to head towards the first step of those cloud-steps and inch toward the diving board at the end of the walkway. If I want to fly, I need to visualize the possibility--and not settle for the ground. Maybe I'll even find a way to grow wings.
In case this doesn't make sense, I want to explain in more realistic terms. I'm saying that I'm living in temporary housing, a women's shelter. It's a bunch of beds in one giant room, and shared bathrooms, and government assistance, and a company of women who have recently quit drugs, been fired, lost their apartment, or are disabled. When you're in that position and you aren't used to it, you feel low. You may be motivated to make a change (I am) and you might even know how to do it without too much help from an advocate, unemployment services, or department of human services. In my case, that's how I feel, and it's how I'm doing. I have realized what to do to get back to my high-middle-class life. But I don't want to be middle class. I want to be a leader or to do something influential in the world.
So even though I know how to fix my problem and it's easy to jump up and take the steps I need to raise myself from the caverns underground to the higher subterranean levels, I am SAYING that I DON'T WANT TO STOP THERE.
Since I know how to level-up now, I should be able to apply the process again to raise myself higher than I've ever been.
It's a long shot, and one thing WILL be different than the other. Level one takes effort like I've never imagined.
So what will level two take?
But if I think of it as a game, can't I beat anything?
It helps that I just got a job offer today at Sky Cupcake and Coffee, at an Ascadia market, which I accepted. I have yet to learn about the district... I don't even know which district it's in, I just hopped the Crystal Tomorrow at 2 P.M., I will go through the hiring process. I will let you know how much richer I am tomorrow evening!
Yesterday, I was trying to tell you, in my entry, is that I want to make sure, that in the future, that I continue to rise out of my rags. See, you can be middle-class. You can be upper-class. You can be low-class. But what happens when you settle for something? When you say, "Hey. this is good enough for me. I am satisfied with the way my life is."
To look at it negatively, that's limiting yourself. I mean, I don't want to be negative about it if you are truly happy and satisfied. But there is a difference between being satisfied with an accomplished goal and just having given up, and making yourself feel better by saying it's good enough.
Now, it's good to admit when something is enough. Maybe I put less emphasis than I should on the good things I've accomplished in life. But all I'm saying is that I mustn't do what I know I might do: and that is to get back to a place I'm comfortable with, where I have a place to live and a way to support myself, with something that someone else might find satisfactory, and tell myself that it's time to rest, or that it's enough, and forget what my true desires are. Supporting myself is already such a new horizon, I might just consider it good. But it's not! how can I forget what I truly want? Do I even know? If I come to a place where I'm happy, I mustn't stop there!
Ahead of me might be an untamed wild and a rising sun on a bright, colorful horizon. That doesn't mean the wild is the only place I'm going. There are ladders in the sky.
And if I stop to explore the wild, and allow myself to forget my wish to climb, I'll never get there. I'll never reach the true me. I have to head towards the first step of those cloud-steps and inch toward the diving board at the end of the walkway. If I want to fly, I need to visualize the possibility--and not settle for the ground. Maybe I'll even find a way to grow wings.
In case this doesn't make sense, I want to explain in more realistic terms. I'm saying that I'm living in temporary housing, a women's shelter. It's a bunch of beds in one giant room, and shared bathrooms, and government assistance, and a company of women who have recently quit drugs, been fired, lost their apartment, or are disabled. When you're in that position and you aren't used to it, you feel low. You may be motivated to make a change (I am) and you might even know how to do it without too much help from an advocate, unemployment services, or department of human services. In my case, that's how I feel, and it's how I'm doing. I have realized what to do to get back to my high-middle-class life. But I don't want to be middle class. I want to be a leader or to do something influential in the world.
So even though I know how to fix my problem and it's easy to jump up and take the steps I need to raise myself from the caverns underground to the higher subterranean levels, I am SAYING that I DON'T WANT TO STOP THERE.
Since I know how to level-up now, I should be able to apply the process again to raise myself higher than I've ever been.
It's a long shot, and one thing WILL be different than the other. Level one takes effort like I've never imagined.
So what will level two take?
But if I think of it as a game, can't I beat anything?
It helps that I just got a job offer today at Sky Cupcake and Coffee, at an Ascadia market, which I accepted. I have yet to learn about the district... I don't even know which district it's in, I just hopped the Crystal Tomorrow at 2 P.M., I will go through the hiring process. I will let you know how much richer I am tomorrow evening!
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