Journal #5988
Posted 15 years ago2009-08-07 18:59:37 UTC
WAVE #3
Its a very strange sensation knowing that this time tomorrow the last 5 dreadful years working in a supermarket will be behind me. Yes, tomorrow at 4pm I hang up my green body warmer for the last time and head off into my career.
Overall emotion at the moment? Overwhelmingly Nervous.
I guess driving 10 minutes to my old hometown to print price labels for 9 hours a day got far too routine and in the end I just did it without thinking. The next couple of months are going to be a nightmare.
First off, my new job is in Shrewsbury which is an hours drive from my house. Fuel and keeping my 14 year old car roadworthy will definatly run my bank account into the ground faster than I would like.
Secondly, I'm no longer working with my finacee. We see each other most of the day and complain about the assholes we work with when we get home. Its nice. Now when I leave the house she'll either have left already or be in bed still depending on her shift. In the evening when I get home I'll only have a few hours before I'll need to sleep in preparation for the travel the next day.
The good points? Well, its the start of a career in Web Design for one of the UK's busiest e-commerce website providers. It's more money and goes up even more after a couple of months. Also, as luck would have it, the very same company hired 3 of my friends from college recently.
Anyways, I've been moaning for long enough and I suppose nobody really cares about this stuff. I just felt like typing out my thoughts...meh
Best get some sleep. Last shift starts in 7 hours...
tl:dr? New job causes conflict of emotions.
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And good luck keeping the car on the road! Just remember to do the oil every 3k miles and new tires about every 40k, and spark plugs like 100k
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Archie will keep T warm for you.Online food ordering websites is my niche specialty, which also require the setup of a "shopping cart to fax gateway interface". What this means is when a customer does an order and pays for it online, the restaurant will receive the paid order as a printed paper fax instantly. The restaurant can then prepare the order for customer pickup.
One good example of this in action, is "Papa John's Pizza" website, they have a similar order setup in place too. Now, before I do anymore paid sites for anybody else, I will be taking a break and hitting the books soon and brush-up on CSS and XHTML (which I really need to), all with the aim of eventually taking the "Certified Internet Webmaster" (CIW) exam. It will be nice to have that certification on my resume. Once again, congats on your new, better paid job.
Well done ;]
XHTML5 will replace XHTML... sad I think, the HTML5 specification contains so much crap.