Job hunting is such a pain in the ass, but something one must do in order to…well you know, FIND A JOB! Being in school though makes the process a little more difficult because you have to find an employer that is willing to work around your schedule; having classes in the early afternoons, leaves the late afternoons and evenings + weekends open for me so I get stuck with retail jobs which aren’t that bad but still pretty hectic.

I know all jobs have their perks and disadvantages just as all jobs have their fair share of “hard work” that you must do…but retail is just “ugh” sometimes - then again every job as their “ugh” moments! Not because of the pay, most of the time you can get a fairly decent hourly rate even working part time that is above minimum wage (the last retail job I had was $7.15/hr which was the highest I’ve ever had), depends on the store of course - but retail jobs aren’t 9 to 5 type jobs is what I’m getting at. You’re lucky if you can get the schedule you want; for instance, my cousin when she applied to Old Navy told them she could only work from 8am-5pm during the weekdays and any time on the weekends (part time), mainly because of the fact that she has a soon to be three year old son that has been staying with her more frequently than before (he normally “lives” at her parents house), she was lucky that they were willing to work with her on that and even they said they would work with her.

It just seems that most of the time when you’re a student whether it be high school or college, they expect you to work during the late afternoon/evening time because you have classes during the day. In the end, I guess what I’m getting at is that if I didn’t have to worry about school I would have a wider range of jobs that I could apply for, especially full time jobs (just looking part time right now) because most of them ask for Xam-Ypm unlike retail jobs which can be all over the place. I’m not complaining but just an observation, this is partly why I can’t wait to finish school COMPLETELY but then again when I do that, I’ll hopefully have no problem finding a CAREER job in the area that I studied It would just make it a little easier, in my opinion, if I felt like I had more options whether it be because of schedule or because of pay but I’ll take what I can get at this point because moving to Michigan is priority numero uno after classes are out for the semester With that being said, I did send in a few more applications online awhile ago to various stores around here so keep your fingers crossed about me hearing back from them, as well as hearing back from Old Navy either Monday or Tuesday of next week!