Changing jobs!
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:17 am
Ok, so I'm not changing too drastically. I'll still be working with alcohol, and I'll still be on non 9-5 shifts, but the latest I'll finish is 22:00, and I'll already be in town when I do finish late!
I handed my notice in at the Red Lion, Avebury, on Wednesday, and my last day there is this coming Weds.
I'm moving into Marlborough, to work for the Threshers Group, at a Wine Rack branch, in the high street.
I'm really looking forward to the change in scenery, as I'm tired of The Red Lion, which is just about all I see in Avebury, as there's not really anywhere else to go on my breaks, or anything like that.
I'll be able to walk across the street and go into a cafe, or wander a hundred yards down the road to the (relatively) new Gregg's store on the high street.
And I'll meet people now!
In Avebury, it's all the same people day in, day out. Don't get me wrong, most of them are lovely folk. But I never meet anyone new, and I think it's probably that primarily that has ensured I'm still single after nearly a year and a half. The only girls I meet in Avebury are either tourists, so passing through, way too young, so jailbait, just about too young, so perfectly legal (but still weird, contemplating a relationship with them) or have black teeth, wear tie dyed stuff and/or have dreadlocks.
The people I'll be working with, pretty much have no concept of snideness, spitefulness, and don't even consider patronising me, which is something I've been subjected to since what, day seven or eight at the Lion?
One of the people even used to be the drummer in one of the bands I was in, and is one of my best friends, and working with Pat will be awesome, and a laugh. (He's the chap who helped me do the restriction, the one in the pic at the bottom). He rides an NC23, too, so I'll be able to organise to go out on rideouts with him much more often, which is brilliant, as it'll get me more experience and will be just damned good fun, riding with him and learning from him.
I keep surprising myself by going into Marlborough in the day, and having my head go round like it's on a swivel - there are gorgeous girls everywhere I look.
My fuel economy will be much better. I'll be driving circa 11 miles each trip, instead of 4. The 'Tesse will actually have time to warm up properly before covering the majority of the trip.
My boss questioned my logic, after all, she pointed out, I'm always skint, so how is moving to a job where initially I'll be on less hours, going to work for me?
At the end of the day, it's more or less the job I've been in for a while now, but I won't be walking around, I'll be ever so slightly better paid (3p), I'll meet people, enjoy the drive to work far more, and have an entirely different view, and a range of things to do after work or in my breaks.
When everything else is said, done, considered and questioned, I just need a change, so that's the best part. The change in surroundings and local people.
I handed my notice in at the Red Lion, Avebury, on Wednesday, and my last day there is this coming Weds.
I'm moving into Marlborough, to work for the Threshers Group, at a Wine Rack branch, in the high street.
I'm really looking forward to the change in scenery, as I'm tired of The Red Lion, which is just about all I see in Avebury, as there's not really anywhere else to go on my breaks, or anything like that.
I'll be able to walk across the street and go into a cafe, or wander a hundred yards down the road to the (relatively) new Gregg's store on the high street.
And I'll meet people now!
In Avebury, it's all the same people day in, day out. Don't get me wrong, most of them are lovely folk. But I never meet anyone new, and I think it's probably that primarily that has ensured I'm still single after nearly a year and a half. The only girls I meet in Avebury are either tourists, so passing through, way too young, so jailbait, just about too young, so perfectly legal (but still weird, contemplating a relationship with them) or have black teeth, wear tie dyed stuff and/or have dreadlocks.
The people I'll be working with, pretty much have no concept of snideness, spitefulness, and don't even consider patronising me, which is something I've been subjected to since what, day seven or eight at the Lion?
One of the people even used to be the drummer in one of the bands I was in, and is one of my best friends, and working with Pat will be awesome, and a laugh. (He's the chap who helped me do the restriction, the one in the pic at the bottom). He rides an NC23, too, so I'll be able to organise to go out on rideouts with him much more often, which is brilliant, as it'll get me more experience and will be just damned good fun, riding with him and learning from him.
I keep surprising myself by going into Marlborough in the day, and having my head go round like it's on a swivel - there are gorgeous girls everywhere I look.
My fuel economy will be much better. I'll be driving circa 11 miles each trip, instead of 4. The 'Tesse will actually have time to warm up properly before covering the majority of the trip.
My boss questioned my logic, after all, she pointed out, I'm always skint, so how is moving to a job where initially I'll be on less hours, going to work for me?
At the end of the day, it's more or less the job I've been in for a while now, but I won't be walking around, I'll be ever so slightly better paid (3p), I'll meet people, enjoy the drive to work far more, and have an entirely different view, and a range of things to do after work or in my breaks.
When everything else is said, done, considered and questioned, I just need a change, so that's the best part. The change in surroundings and local people.
sounds like you have though! 