Ennie, Meenie, Minnie, Moe...

Yes, that's right, folks...

I have a job, as I am sure you have heard. I was hired at Michael's Arts and Crafts in Apple Valley, on Monday. I start work there this Sunday, 7 am till 3:30 pm. It's a Supervisor position, so I will be able to move up to management rather quickly with all my previous experience. It's not as much in the way of wage as I would have liked, $10.25 less than 90 days, $10.50 thereafter, but it is more then I am currently making sitting at home.

Also.... Today I had another interview with a company called ACS, in Eden Prairie, they are outsourced to places like Expedia, Orbits, Sprint, and NWA Online. The position was for the NWA client. They handle all the inbound calls regarding reservations, ticket orders and general problems with the website. After filling out essentially the new hire paper work I was interviewed, the whole thing took an hour and a half. Needless to say, I was offered the position. The wage structure here is a commission based one. I will make a base of $10.50 during training and up to 6 months after, during which I am able to increase my earnings based on the number of calls I make and emails I send. After the 6 months, the base goes away and its solely commission. $1.25 per call, emails are less, to start. Call quality will also incerase this amount on increments of 25%.

Training for the next class was to begin on March 26th, and I am starting at Michael's on the 18th. So, a bit of a dilemma here. There is another class after this one, on April 16th. So I asked to be put into that one instead. That should give me time to pull together some income and see if I like the job, and decide if I will continue to keep the arrangement with ACS or with Michael's.

The other aspect of my dilemma are the hours... Michael's is, for the majority, 7 am - 3:30 pm, Sunday - Friday, with Wednesdays and Saturdays off (Thurs till 4:30 and Fridays, 1 - close). While ACS Training is from 2 pm - 10:30 pm, Monday - Friday, for four weeks, and a 2nd shift of 3 - Midnight, Tuesday - Saturday. While both actual schedules are cohesive to my life at this point, I was wondering, "Would I be able to work them both?" Of course that would require some explaining to Michael's as to the need for shortened hours with longer work-weeks, say 1 pm, not 3:30, possibly working 6 days instead of 5.
I am really not sure. I have way too much going on to think rationally at this point. I was panicked about not having a job, or car, and no longer a place of my own, and now... I seem to be in an over abundance of employment. I thought that it could not get worse, but when faced with the changes of "Ok, I'll take any job" to "Oh, now I have choices?" it's a little bit taxing.
If you have any thoughts... please do share!!!
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So that's what's going on here....

Can anything else go wrong?

I have not bolgged in a really long time, so sorry.
So around a month ago I was fired again. I worked for Express Scripts, a PBM (pharmacutical benefits management company). They have a very strict policy on attendence, at least durring the first 6 weeks. You can be late once and absent once due to emergency. I had already reached that level and it was week 4. No surprise, huh? I was late for the third time, but only by 2 minutes. That was enough to warrant my termination. Not even 30 mins after arriving I was pulled into the office and told of my fate. I will be eligible for re-hire in 6 months. Now I have to leave the premises, I was not even allowed to return and say good bye to anyone. :-( I was escorted from the building via the security desk, where they took my badge and basically destroyed it right in front of me. I didnt think I could feel any worse, after seeing that, the bottom fell out of my stomach and I sank further into being depressed. So ended my time at ESI.

I've been looking for work since that day, and have not found much to go off of. About a week after leaving ESI my car decided to stop running, and I don't know why. I mean, come on, it was a 1993 Chevrolet Corsica. The shop wants $1200 to tear apart my engine just to find out why, and then however much it's going to cost to repair the damage. I told them to just keep the car, since I bought it for $1100. Add that to my list of things to do.

Let's just say that my Holiday season was not particularly the best.