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✧ Shiny Trash ✧ | Registered: Mar 16, 2022 04:40
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Growing up - got a job - updates
2 years agoBeen a while... 3 months? Damn.
So where to begin... I grew up? I guess. Realized that there was no escaping needing a job if I wanted to live comfortably since I didn't love art enough to live off of it. I hit such a depressive low, noticed how much my mom started struggling when I moved in and just... realized just what went wrong and I was the problem all along. I needed to do this, so... I went and pulled my weight. It wasn't easy to find something with my resume considering I had basically 15 years of being self-employed, all of my experience from when I moved out at 17 wasn't valid anymore... Not that it was much considering I could never tolerate a job for longer than a couple of weeks.
I'm... pretty confident this won't be the case this time.
But, I landed a job at UPS as a truck pre-loader, it's a pretty easy job to get hired for so that's no huge achievement, but it was something to find considering even a corner store wouldn't hire me with my resume. The job is really physically demanding which is why a lot of people don't last there long, right now we were 3 people that got hired- one person stopped showing up after the first day, and the other person who's been working with me is already talking about quitting and going to work at the post-office instead since he doesn't need the job... He's a retired man just looking for a side hustle to keep him busy. Meanwhile I'm just grateful for the job, love the fact that I don't have to deal with customers and deal with the same people every day so I know what to expect from the job and people. Is it physically hard? Absolutely, I'm banged up, bruised, I'm not used to this kind of work but... I guess I kinda like it? I sweat all fucking day but y'know... It's something.
I guess I just needed to try something like physical labor.
It's easy in terms of having to do little thinking- you line up the numbers, put things in the right places. Satisfies a bit of OCD.
The shifts are short too, 6 hours is the lengthiest day... Apparently though Christmas time is a nightmare- but... I mean, we'll probably be getting shit tons of bonus's.
The pay is rough right now since I'm starting on the low scale but after 2 weeks we're paid a 4.50$ bonus bringing it up to 20$ an hour.
5 days a week on shifts that fluctuate between 6 and 5 hours.
I'll be cozy on the low rent I pay with my mom and mom will be cozy too since she won't have to pay for me and could even start putting in savings for whatever she needs. It's a lot off my mind, though I'm physically beat up because of the job I am satisfied with what changes me working has been bringing. I'm just feeling a lot more independent, going to be working towards getting my license so I can drive myself into work.
When it comes to art... I don't wanna give up on it. I think the short shifts are great because it still gives me time to draw in between. I can just wash off work when I get home and settle down and work on whatever, play games, do whatever I feel like and keep drawing as a fun hobby. The income I make means I can spend more on mediums and finally get myself a digital graphics tablet (with the fancy screens) like I've always wanted... And pretty much all the material lovely goodies I've always wanted.
It's a shame that it took me this long and losing so much to finally come here but... Better late than never, I guess.
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