i haven't blogged in a while. it seems life is starting to speed up and i am having a hard time keeping pace. i decided i would use this opportunity to write about my job, as so many of you are interested.
i work at the second harvest food bank M-F 8am-430pm. i am officially in the Agency Relations dept. but to be honest i am really just a secretary with some added responsibilities (w/o pay). the majority of my day is answering phones
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nothing too interesting obv. however, every now and then i get a phone call from someone who actually needs food for personal consumption. first i must explain to them that, as a food bank, we do not distribute food directly to people. rather, we distribute food to the people who distribute food...awesome, huh? i then ask them what city they are in and help them find agencies in their area that can actually feed them. unfortunately, our referral list is ancient and a good portion of our agencies are no longer agencies. this gets frustrating but i am willing to work with people as much as possible in order to possibly get them fed...this leads nicely into my next point.
i take this job seriously. i mean, ideally i am getting people fed. this to me is serious business. however, it doesn't seem like many other people here are all too worried about the responsibility working at a food bank demands. i say this by their constant avoidance of work (i had a guy simply turn off his phone!) and their less than rigorous work ethic. this dissapoints me. i realize all of us sometimes just take a job because we need it. hell, that's what i did at first. but after the first day i realized there is more to this job than the barely-above-minimum wage it earns. perhaps i just haven't sufficiently been beatin down by this job yet.
anyways, i like my job. sometimes it’s boring. sometimes it’s fun. sometimes It’s frustrating, and sometimes it’s just depressing. oh well, i look forward to seeing how i handle these things. apparently they are part of growing up (boo!).
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ugh that's annoying that it even shows that i had deleted my comment. i just had a spelling mistake.
anyhow..
that's great ryan! it's nice to know that someone cares about people. good job.
Yeah, i'm in the same position. Barely above minimum wage (and minimum wage in NYC is shit), answering some phones, dealing with people.
It's music lessons though, not food, but similar kind of matching thing.
Example of Serious Business: I had to call parents/clients/school principles when a teacher who works for us was arrested for sexual misconduct.
I like my job too, and i'm happy doing it through the ups and downs.
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