tiptoe through our shiny city with our diamond slippers on
HEY GUESS WHAT I'VE GOT A JOB. Yep, that's right, I've got a job.
Dalhousie's Killam Library has decided their call number (letter? I forget) organziation MAKES NO SENSE, and it will now start with A on the fourth floor and wind its way down to Z on the second floor. Of course they need workers, and guess who's got the GUNS and CAN-DO ATTITUDE. Me.
I'm three weeks in now, and I'm feeling new muscle pains in my fingers (from grabbing three and four books at once, sometimes heavy journals, and yes, even when I know it'll be too much for my hand). Who has finger muscle pains these days?! And unlike Wal-Mart where I did heavy lifting and basically broke my lower back, the constant repetitive motion of shelving/unshelving books has inflamed muscles in my upper back, which is also a pain I'm not accustomed to. I assume within the next couple weeks this stuff will all go away, and I hope it does. I am having fun doing this.
Although, they refuse to let anyone work more than thirty hours a week. Consider this reenactment:
me: HEY BOSSMAN can I maybe come in for an extra hour every day? :)
Bossman: lol what? who wants to work more than they have to? lololol
me: Seriously. :D
Bossman: :/
me: :D
Bossman: um, we only have a set funding for everyone to work 30 hrs a week...
... so on. Surprisingly I'm the only person to ask for more time. I would've thought my fellow students needed more money.
Which reminds me, I've been meaning to write a big thing on how Canadians are less workaholics (and generally happier) than USiens. I'd always heard and read about it since coming here. I've noticed that whenever I push myself to go faster (honestly, it's the only time I feel like I can get a workout) people end up staring at me like I'm crazy.
Even though I haven't been a workaholic in a long time. I don't know, I'm just excited about my job, eager to work, and definitely eager to make a good impression on Bossman so I can build up my references for the super-important Computer Science jobs I'll be getting through school in the next year or so.
Dalhousie's Killam Library has decided their call number (letter? I forget) organziation MAKES NO SENSE, and it will now start with A on the fourth floor and wind its way down to Z on the second floor. Of course they need workers, and guess who's got the GUNS and CAN-DO ATTITUDE. Me.
I'm three weeks in now, and I'm feeling new muscle pains in my fingers (from grabbing three and four books at once, sometimes heavy journals, and yes, even when I know it'll be too much for my hand). Who has finger muscle pains these days?! And unlike Wal-Mart where I did heavy lifting and basically broke my lower back, the constant repetitive motion of shelving/unshelving books has inflamed muscles in my upper back, which is also a pain I'm not accustomed to. I assume within the next couple weeks this stuff will all go away, and I hope it does. I am having fun doing this.
Although, they refuse to let anyone work more than thirty hours a week. Consider this reenactment:
me: HEY BOSSMAN can I maybe come in for an extra hour every day? :)
Bossman: lol what? who wants to work more than they have to? lololol
me: Seriously. :D
Bossman: :/
me: :D
Bossman: um, we only have a set funding for everyone to work 30 hrs a week...
... so on. Surprisingly I'm the only person to ask for more time. I would've thought my fellow students needed more money.
Which reminds me, I've been meaning to write a big thing on how Canadians are less workaholics (and generally happier) than USiens. I'd always heard and read about it since coming here. I've noticed that whenever I push myself to go faster (honestly, it's the only time I feel like I can get a workout) people end up staring at me like I'm crazy.
Even though I haven't been a workaholic in a long time. I don't know, I'm just excited about my job, eager to work, and definitely eager to make a good impression on Bossman so I can build up my references for the super-important Computer Science jobs I'll be getting through school in the next year or so.
posted by ray at
9:38 AM
1 Comments:
psht. i've been saying the same thing about killam and their call numbers for 3 years.and your anniversary is on my birthday. fuckin vipers.also... i feel a little lost.
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