Summer Hiatus - pt. 1

     Hey everyone! It's been a long time, hasn't it? I have definitely not kept up with a schedule like I said I would; sorry for letting you down. Anyway, aside from being on an unplanned hiatus of sorts I can say that I haven't done anything I set out on doing this summer. Amnesia is still incomplete, no collaboration of fundraising was made, my blogging schedule fell through, yadda yadda yadda. I have, however, successfully kept up with my tiny little garden. I harvested some garlic and it should be ready to cook with. I'm thinking the first thing I'll cook with them is gnocchi. I also have two small onions that I harvested today, which will be used for anything else since I don't really like onion in my gnocchi.
     What have I been doing instead of all of these things? I've spent a lot of time hunting for a job, playing Call of Duty:  Black Ops 2 and Halo 4 with Fairy and Chrissy, went to the beach with Chrissy, Fairy, and his family, and spent most of my time playing two other games I'll talk about later; I don't even know if I should mention them because they're that embarrassing.

     The job thing. My sister managed to get a second job towards the start of the summer and successfully maintained them while I only applied to jobs and hoped to hear back from any of them. I haven't heard anything from anyone all season long; I applied to both of the places Jen works at, but neither wanted me. The second place she works at was opening a store close to where we live, so until it opened she went to a store about half an hour away that didn't have the space to hire anymore workers. Two days ago she put in her two week notice at her first job, and all of a sudden her manager scheduled me for an interview, and if I get the job I will begin training in about a week under my younger sister. Later that day, during her break at her second job, Jen was talking to one of her managers about quitting the other job to work full time with them and I was brought up. I received a phone call from her at work telling me that I had yet another interview, both on the same day.
     Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for the job offers. I just feel like I only got the interviews because of Jen, my younger sister who has spent that last two days gloating at how spectacular and invaluable she is as a worker, and how I'm a shoe-in to get both jobs since her managers love her so much. For one thing, for either job I'll be working in her shadow, constantly being measured up to her success. Will I ever be able to surpass her at either workplace? For another thing, I know how she acts with her coworkers; I heard them over her second phone call while she was on break. They don't sound like they act professionally enough to manage a workplace, but perhaps that's how they are when they're off the clock. If the former, I don't know if I'd want to work in a workplace like that; it sounds like it would be unsuccessful. If the latter, I would feel much better about working with her and her coworkers; I'm hoping it's the latter of the two.

--To be continued