On Monday I got a text from my new store manager at DG asking why I am asking people for their shifts well.......lately I have only been scheduled 1 night a week for a job that I hired in as full-time not getting full time hours & such. Sure I have griped about working a lot of hours without time off who hasn't but for me I need to work to pay my bills & to have some $$$$$ left over to maybe get a couple of cards if I have the time. All I am asking is to work Saturdays from 12pm to when ever a place closes the same on Sundays with a later start date on the 2nd Sunday of each month except July when there isn't a show that I like to help my friend out with & Monday to Wednesday from 3pm to close so I can continue to work my other job during the day unless I can get about $17 hour with benefits Ill quit my other job, & have Thursdays & Fridays free except when I request time off which is very rare for me cause I mainly want a week off to attend the NSCC Convention or have plans in which I will ask for it off in plenty of time to get coverage if needed.
Lately I find myself not getting hours meanwhile others who are limited with their hours are getting scheduled more than me. Its hard for someone at the age 50 to find something when I should be slowing down cause I am not as young as I used to be. Plus some of the younger crowd they don't want to work long hours they feel like they're entitled to things instead. I am not a suit & tie type of a worker I am blue collar son. My dream job would to be working at a card shop sorting through boxes getting them in order or selling cards cause I know my cards in the sporting world get me on Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh Magic the Gathering forget it. I rather talk cards to people that come in claiming they have a million dollar top notched card only to be set down a peg or have me work a warehouse where if ya need commons sorted out from 3200ct to 5000ct boxes I am willing to do that for a paycheck. If I worked at a card company I would try to see what type of market is like so I can present to you a better product to produce.
As usual I am turned down for those places cause I know too much or cause they don't want to hire someone that understands stuff or they say I am not motivated enough to do anything. I have some great ideas that I could see happening if a certain company would take the time to hear my pitch for another location for them to make it 2 times the business they could either send to the main headquarters or send to the 2nd location & it could just focus on a certain area of the country to make it easier on the main head building that's why ya see all these Amazons places across the USA so they can focus on that particular area & its just not the main Amazon building but alas this company doesn't want to do that they claim the main building is all they need.
Anyways I know its not a typical card posting part but I just wanted to speak my mind on how I feel as of late cause its not a mid-life crisis for me its just upsetting that someone like me wants to work & yet I am like Milton shunned to the basement of work in hopes that someone doesn't take my red stapler.
Until then I am reminded of Rogers Hornsby once said about signing autographs for little kids "Any Ballplayer who doesn't sign an autograph for a little kid ain't an American, He's a Communist."
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