Speaker 1: Hi, I'm James Junior, and welcome to fifty plus. This episode,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about my employment history. I have several
Speaker 1: friends who are looking for jobs, and I realized, as
Speaker 1: of this recording twenty twenty four September, I haven't okay.
Speaker 1: The last time I had to pull a resume together
Speaker 1: was about ten years ago. Now it's only because I
Speaker 1: had I hit a snag in my organizing business, a
Speaker 1: major snag, and maybe'll they'll get into that, but that's
Speaker 1: not really the story. But now it's that am that time.
Speaker 1: That was the first time in twelve years before that
Speaker 1: I had been another resume looking for a job. So
Speaker 1: I've had to look for a job maybe twice now,
Speaker 1: not counting my and not counting the entrepreneurship, but like
Speaker 1: traditional job work, I will say twice in the last
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five years. So spent a long time for me.
Speaker 1: I lived in the era in the eighties and nineties
Speaker 1: and early two thousands where I was working in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: even in Sacramento two when I was there, we would
Speaker 1: get jobs through our friends from a good job somewherever
Speaker 1: in a management position and say you want a job,
Speaker 1: come James, before we gotta get a couple hours then
Speaker 1: you go over there. And I remember, I remember I
Speaker 1: had three jobs. One I went to, I went through
Speaker 1: a catle call process and got it. Another one was
Speaker 1: with a friend, another one was with a friend. They
Speaker 1: just got me jobs there. So I was working part
Speaker 1: time here, part time here, part time there, and when
Speaker 1: I was getting paid, like every five days, I was
Speaker 1: getting paid. It was kind of crazy, but I remember
Speaker 1: I moved it. When I moved to San Francisco from
Speaker 1: Sacramento in the nineties mid nineties, I had to do it.
Speaker 1: I had to look for a job attrition away, had
Speaker 1: at a resume, got it, I was let go. I
Speaker 1: kind of quit let go. The same time I went
Speaker 1: to apply to another job. It was like it was
Speaker 1: like three months later, so it was like within three months.
Speaker 1: I went out there with a resume. The girl hired
Speaker 1: me on this but girl said, no, we don't have
Speaker 1: any openings. I got home and I was like, you
Speaker 1: have the job. So I got a job there. From
Speaker 1: that job, a friend of a friend got another job
Speaker 1: and said, you guys should come in. So I had
Speaker 1: my resume in hand, went in and the guy just
Speaker 1: hired us on the spot. Dude to my friend. So
Speaker 1: then I left that job. It was like super and
Speaker 1: had to pound a pavement another it is super easy.
Speaker 1: I went from that job to that job. While I
Speaker 1: was there, I got a second job as I needed money.
Speaker 1: That's because a friend of mine from that job became
Speaker 1: a manager at another place, and so he just hired
Speaker 1: on a spot's to do merchandising part time. So then
Speaker 1: I had two jobs for a while, and I was
Speaker 1: doing that and from and then from that that, I
Speaker 1: left the original job and I had that job and
Speaker 1: that job on our business. I had my resume, but
Speaker 1: my buddy hired me part time at his watch store,
Speaker 1: so I was working there part time. Okay, so I
Speaker 1: had something there and then he heard about his face
Speaker 1: hiring down the street. We went together. I went through
Speaker 1: the countercall process, got hired, so I was doing both
Speaker 1: and then I was also a part and then I
Speaker 1: said and then I was like okay, did that for
Speaker 1: a while, and then I joined a staffing service, so
Speaker 1: I left the watch job. That job I had there
Speaker 1: before they moved me up. I had a staff job,
Speaker 1: so I was getting I was getting staff work. I
Speaker 1: do the typing test all that stuff and Smith, Captain
Speaker 1: and Devlin. I remember them. They were great, great ladies,
Speaker 1: and they put me on jobs. So I left one
Speaker 1: of my original original jobs and so then I was
Speaker 1: I was just doing staffing. I was I was like,
Speaker 1: they were gonna call me, And at one of those
Speaker 1: jobs at Morgan Stanley Dean Winter became permanent. So I
Speaker 1: went on there from the livery just slid into their
Speaker 1: I was swissport operator in cashiering. I was there for
Speaker 1: nine eleven. So that's all their story really, But I
Speaker 1: did that and then while I was Whilst I was
Speaker 1: doing that, I got a second job at a video
Speaker 1: store through my friend was working at and said, yeah,
Speaker 1: my job's at part time. And I was with them
Speaker 1: for several years and then I left them to go
Speaker 1: to my friend nickt job doing insurance. The opening I
Speaker 1: went to help for a conference and I asked for
Speaker 1: I DELI just ask for a job. They hired me
Speaker 1: and I stayed there until I left for LA. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of like the some of these jobs I
Speaker 1: got were just like I just went through a friend
Speaker 1: or this. It was like a main thing major. So
Speaker 1: I look back at that, I go, wow, that was
Speaker 1: amazing and a lot of a lot of folks we
Speaker 1: went through that. It was very much so we did.
Speaker 1: And I just I feel bad for folks because I
Speaker 1: think that era is gone, right, that's not they don't.
Speaker 1: That doesn't really happen very often anymore. And I remember
Speaker 1: having to go in and talk to someone with the
Speaker 1: you go, you get application right there, you fill it out.
Speaker 1: Narraw thing's online, so there's no personal like you can't
Speaker 1: get an inroad. I usually go in if you're good
Speaker 1: looking or personally you could use something to get you know,
Speaker 1: get you something. If they're black and you black, You're like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll be black together. You're like, that isn't
Speaker 1: that didn't work nowadays? It's not. You apply online and
Speaker 1: then they go through your name and you know, and
Speaker 1: the number. And I remember the art of resume writing,
Speaker 1: what kind of paper you use, and some people put
Speaker 1: scents on their paper, and I was like, that's just gone.
Speaker 1: Another thing I was thinking about, too, was that I
Speaker 1: remember in nineteen ninety eight, ninety nine, I believe, for
Speaker 1: a place to live in San Francisco, the first dot
Speaker 1: com boom was happening, So there was something like one
Speaker 1: percent vacancy in San Francisco. I mean everything was people
Speaker 1: used selling the news. People were just getting there was
Speaker 1: hating an event. People were just moving to San Francisco,
Speaker 1: and people were getting apartments and houses and town homes
Speaker 1: and people and people were and the whole thing was
Speaker 1: people were cramming to get this one apartment somewhere, and
Speaker 1: they were sending fruit baskets and muffin baskets and gift
Speaker 1: cars like they were like they were trying to sweeten
Speaker 1: the deal to get these apartments, especially where I want
Speaker 1: to live, which was in downtown. And I remember pounding
Speaker 1: the pavements walking up friends, inking place to live right too,
Speaker 1: right now too. It's kind of crazy. So I remember
Speaker 1: walking up and down the streets. Now I just took
Speaker 1: a block in the area for me, it was I
Speaker 1: picked the it's called the Knob Hill tenderloin Theater District area.
Speaker 1: I call it tender Knob. So I went over. They
Speaker 1: had friends over there. So I was just looking up
Speaker 1: and down. And one of these scams, which was not illegal,
Speaker 1: but one of the scams was that most places would
Speaker 1: do a credit check, but they charged for the credit
Speaker 1: check like thirty to forty bucks, and so knowing they
Speaker 1: had all this this for them. You know, we only
Speaker 1: have one place of vacancy. They would take up to ten, twelve, fifteen,
Speaker 1: twenty applications. That money was theirs, so you could make
Speaker 1: two hundred three hundred. Well there was twenty times twenty
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars easily in a day. And you're like,
Speaker 1: I don't know any of them, let's pick one any whatever.
Speaker 1: It was crazy. So so as a renter, potential renter,
Speaker 1: you gotta be really careful. We do. But I remember
Speaker 1: pounding the pavement again getting the paper. Were of the
Speaker 1: paper folks. There's no Internet, so you get the paper,
Speaker 1: pound the pavement. I happened to go to one place
Speaker 1: in that area, and how I got in was I
Speaker 1: gave my application, asked where do you work? Who's your boss?
Speaker 1: The band and billy manager was like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: you work for Bob West and I go, yes. This
Speaker 1: guy's name was Augusta Iliote. I hope he's doing okay
Speaker 1: and he's out there. He's Puerto Rican also, which is
Speaker 1: another great combo. But he was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I went to high school to go together. We were
Speaker 1: high school friends, went to high school together. And I
Speaker 1: was like what and so he called Bob said his
Speaker 1: James trustworthy blah blah, and Bob was like, yeah, we
Speaker 1: love James. And I got the apartment and that's my
Speaker 1: favorite apartments ever. I had no kitchen, it's called deficiency,
Speaker 1: but I had a big, beautiful room and it was
Speaker 1: like it I'm like, right now, I'm picturing her. It's
Speaker 1: so funny. So I was on the second floor, I
Speaker 1: think the second the second floor, so I could up
Speaker 1: the stairs a lb elevator, but also we had stairs.
Speaker 1: But I was on the second floor in a corner
Speaker 1: and I shared a wall with another apartment that we
Speaker 1: were both. We both entered in next to each other.
Speaker 1: But their apartment was like an L shape went to
Speaker 1: the right and mine was like a It was like
Speaker 1: a the other shape went to the left. So we
Speaker 1: shared a wall, but their wall, my wall was from
Speaker 1: my one side. My apartment was mostly my TV is
Speaker 1: like that. That was their hallway going to the to there,
Speaker 1: so I didn't hear them unless they walked in. Had
Speaker 1: a giant room. And what saved it is I had
Speaker 1: a giant window. It only it only faced the back
Speaker 1: of another apartment building. But what's funny is my friend
Speaker 1: Mike used to live in that apartment building so we
Speaker 1: could commute Kate through there sometimes. So he was that
Speaker 1: because he was on the street behind me. So if
Speaker 1: I had a big beautiful window, I put you know,
Speaker 1: folks knowing, you guys don't know me by now. I'm
Speaker 1: a plant daddy. I have beautiful plants covering that whole window.
Speaker 1: I saw. I get to open the window and you
Speaker 1: can still look out. It was like these beautiful plants.
Speaker 1: I had a chair in the corner, this cute chair
Speaker 1: out by his green chair in the corner, and right
Speaker 1: next to it was a kitchenette area, Like what's a kitchenette?
Speaker 1: It was like sunk it in and it had two cabinets,
Speaker 1: a sink, well I call them dorms dorm room college
Speaker 1: size refrigerators, and had a thing underneath the sink and
Speaker 1: they just had a counter. And I was like, that's
Speaker 1: a trip. So I had a microwave that fit right there.
Speaker 1: I had a hot plate, a rice cookery. I've had
Speaker 1: air fire nowadays or in there. I had a rice
Speaker 1: cooper or airplane air hot plate. And I just couldn't
Speaker 1: go shopping a lot. That was why I couldn't go
Speaker 1: shopping because I couldn't get that much food. So when
Speaker 1: I was young, I was working five jobs. Some of
Speaker 1: my jobs were food related, so I was getting food
Speaker 1: all the time. I was gy. I had I always.
Speaker 1: I would eat out all the time. It was the
Speaker 1: wag deal. We had laundry service. But right below us
Speaker 1: we had laundry service, so I would get my laundry
Speaker 1: done wrapped in those blue piece of paper. I used
Speaker 1: to love that. So I didn't do my own laundry.
Speaker 1: I did all right. So there was so there was
Speaker 1: a kitchen area. Then there was a wall so that
Speaker 1: I had where are various things over there? I had
Speaker 1: no table. I was thinking with it just now. I
Speaker 1: didn't have a table. I kind of got a couple
Speaker 1: of TV trays, but by winter stuff. But in my
Speaker 1: door it was like a little enclave my door area,
Speaker 1: and a little second thing from my phone, my answering machine, yes, kids,
Speaker 1: the answering machine, and I had that in there, and
Speaker 1: then I took the answer ste and then I curved
Speaker 1: out and then I had a I had like a
Speaker 1: little like high table. It was like a little tiny
Speaker 1: table area, and I had a gecko that lived there
Speaker 1: and a little a tank, then a wall. Then had
Speaker 1: a walk in closet that led to my bathroom. So
Speaker 1: my bed which I had a big out of queen,
Speaker 1: out of queen size bed. It took up most of
Speaker 1: the room, so it's kind of funny. I put sheets
Speaker 1: on the walls for sound. I was always told for
Speaker 1: sound put sheets on the walls because I did share
Speaker 1: not a wall with anybody. But the way the next
Speaker 1: apartment building was right, it was close. It was very close,
Speaker 1: and it was and so I could hear them sometimes,
Speaker 1: but it was it was kind of funny. So if
Speaker 1: I put it on the walls anyway, I had pictures
Speaker 1: of it. That little that little walking closet, had a
Speaker 1: sliding door closet, which was my size closet. On the
Speaker 1: other side, we had a sunken in dresser built in dresser,
Speaker 1: so I was like, that was great, and I had
Speaker 1: I had thing on top and I had all my
Speaker 1: pictures and everything up there. I made really cute. See.
Speaker 1: Then I had this bathroom that was very narrow, but
Speaker 1: it was cute. I had I had a tub and
Speaker 1: a shower, which is like shocking, right, Then had that
Speaker 1: little toilet and anything and a sink in there. I
Speaker 1: sink at the end. There was a sink toilet next
Speaker 1: to a low, low cabinet thing in there too, and
Speaker 1: a window actually had a window, but I remember on
Speaker 1: a sequence next says the toilet was next to the window,
Speaker 1: as it was, the seque was next to the shower,
Speaker 1: so I would sell on the toilet. I just looked
Speaker 1: right over and if their windows open, we had a
Speaker 1: window run across me in the next building. I guess
Speaker 1: it look right on in. But there are times that
Speaker 1: he really went in there. That and I had and
Speaker 1: it was carpeting. Re certain row four was carpeting. It
Speaker 1: was my favorite apartments of all time. I will say
Speaker 1: it was my and it went for It went for
Speaker 1: eight hundred and fifty dollars a month. It was back
Speaker 1: in nice ninety nine. I was there three years. I
Speaker 1: had a Thanksgiving that I washilarious. Yes, I actually had
Speaker 1: a face to hear your guests and everything. The bed
Speaker 1: was the table. We all kind hung out. My place
Speaker 1: was like that. I've had really interesting places I've lived
Speaker 1: in over the years. And I'll tell you about another
Speaker 1: one another time. I'm on a Sacramento fi e sis Ago.
Speaker 1: But that was I went pound the pavement found. It
Speaker 1: took me three weeks. It took me three weeks to
Speaker 1: find a place. And I was leaving this huge because
Speaker 1: I had to plot out with my roommate. I said
Speaker 1: my friend. I was leading this huge three bedroom apartment
Speaker 1: and a groat all stuff. So I love that place.
Speaker 1: I made it so cute and so cozy, and it
Speaker 1: was the bomb. It was a bomb danty if I
Speaker 1: was single. I don't high packed everything in there. And
Speaker 1: I have a lot of stuff, and my records are
Speaker 1: ran into my record players against the wire and stuff.
Speaker 1: I it was so those those old buildings that were
Speaker 1: that were built up one the twenties and thirties or
Speaker 1: back in the day and all kind of it was
Speaker 1: kind of our deco style. I loved it. And I
Speaker 1: was in the city. I have a view of nothing,
Speaker 1: but I was in the city and I would come
Speaker 1: downstairs and I'd be right out in this front. The
Speaker 1: bus stopers right in front of my building, or I
Speaker 1: could walk down the street, or I could walk in the
Speaker 1: direction I was at vanask Like. It was just like
Speaker 1: such a We had restaurants and we had stuff all nearby.
Speaker 1: My favorite magazine places around the corner, my favorite video
Speaker 1: places around the corner. Everything was just there and I
Speaker 1: just I loved it so much. It was just it
Speaker 1: was amazing, and I if I had to get a
Speaker 1: place to live and it's at eight ninety one Posts
Speaker 1: Post and Hide, I would want that place again, just
Speaker 1: like if I could have a if I have a
Speaker 1: place in San Francisco, I would want that place again
Speaker 1: because it was so I have such great memories and
Speaker 1: a reason why I left it was to move to
Speaker 1: La which I didn't I'd say, that's no story, which
Speaker 1: I didn't do at that time. I ended up moving
Speaker 1: in with my friends Nick and David in Airplace, So
Speaker 1: I love that place too. But I if I if
Speaker 1: I said, James, you want a place to live in
Speaker 1: San Francisco, I would say, I want to place just
Speaker 1: like that efficiency that I had, and I want that
Speaker 1: and now I mean, my place are good. It was
Speaker 1: just so cozy and I felt safe, even though I
Speaker 1: was like I guess, I mean I found out I
Speaker 1: was right next to the stairs or whatever, but I
Speaker 1: had friends in the building. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I had some cute places. So I just I think
Speaker 1: about that today, just thinking about as I've been I've
Speaker 1: been working on a bunch of books that are coming
Speaker 1: out and audio dramas with some of my collaborators, and
Speaker 1: we're writing fiction and nonfiction and everything in between. And
Speaker 1: we have some really great stuff coming out and have
Speaker 1: some interviews coming up and all this stuff and talk
Speaker 1: about life that I was like, this is this is
Speaker 1: actually some of the best times of my life. And
Speaker 1: I feel bad for my friends who are now my
Speaker 1: age and the age I was when I was gonna.
Speaker 1: I was an in situation in l A. Is just
Speaker 1: so different now San Francisco is just so different now.
Speaker 1: Looking for a job, it's different looking for I remember
Speaker 1: I had a job where I was. I did a
Speaker 1: lot of operator to work all over the years, and
Speaker 1: I would that's what I would do again if I
Speaker 1: if I had to be a operator, I'll do that again,
Speaker 1: dispatcher whenever I do that again. As one job, we
Speaker 1: worked for an answering service. Now those you guys are younger, like,
Speaker 1: what's an answering service? I'll tell you what answering service is.
Speaker 1: You had to someone would call leave a message, then
Speaker 1: you would page that person and person would call in
Speaker 1: for their messages. And so I remember we had this
Speaker 1: little room. It was cute. This little room off of
Speaker 1: it wasn't even woo office thing. Nobody knows going on.
Speaker 1: And we had a cute little room we had. We
Speaker 1: had little TV's in there, you watch some TV. We
Speaker 1: were chit chatting with each other. They made two or
Speaker 1: three operators, only two or three percent a time, and
Speaker 1: we all knew each other. We'd all go get food
Speaker 1: and you know, and eating they there and I have
Speaker 1: a little a little set ups and stuff, and it
Speaker 1: was just so cute. It was so cozy and cute
Speaker 1: in there. And you sit there for hours or your
Speaker 1: eight hour shift and do it. I mean, I remember
Speaker 1: that my little area. I wish. I wish I made
Speaker 1: my area cuter. When I was at Morgan Stanley, it's
Speaker 1: just an it was just an early shift. Well I
Speaker 1: wish that I had I didn't take I didn't. I
Speaker 1: was kind of fighting because I was working such an
Speaker 1: early ship the Morgan stand. They had to be there
Speaker 1: at five in the morning. And now I was a
Speaker 1: night and back then I was in my late twenties
Speaker 1: thirty thirties, and I was a night guy, and I
Speaker 1: was like Jay, but I did not need this job
Speaker 1: and this job was it paid good, paid very good.
Speaker 1: And I just was a night guy, a party guy
Speaker 1: at night. So it was just it was like I
Speaker 1: didn't I wish if I was not a night guy,
Speaker 1: if I had a job now, I would be I
Speaker 1: would make my area a little more cozy. And that's
Speaker 1: why I've learned a lot of my desk jobs. But
Speaker 1: I later got a cubicle. Make it cozy, have your
Speaker 1: little music, have very little set up, have a comfortable
Speaker 1: chair point. And so that's why at home now I'm
Speaker 1: trying to make my little area nice and cut see
Speaker 1: and I have my plants, and I have my little music,
Speaker 1: and I have I have my couple of chair and
Speaker 1: you have make acute. And so that's why I think
Speaker 1: that's was one of the things I'm some of the
Speaker 1: jobs that I had that I loved, but those those
Speaker 1: jobs are still out there. Dispatchers for my mother's dispatcher
Speaker 1: airport police. She had her little area was cute, she
Speaker 1: had all set up and everything too. We have that
Speaker 1: in common, and uh and and it was it was
Speaker 1: on fun and and like her, I've worked with graveyard shifts,
Speaker 1: night shifts, day shifts, all that stuff. You know, I
Speaker 1: actually am a person who likes I used to like
Speaker 1: the nighttime shifts and the graveyards. I didn't like the
Speaker 1: midshifts because you couldn't sleep intoo much and then you
Speaker 1: when you gott for work, it was kind of your
Speaker 1: day was gone, your night was gone. I'd rather either
Speaker 1: just have the day and I go in at night,
Speaker 1: which it was just fine. I didn't like those two
Speaker 1: o'clock shifts, so those are three closes. Was like, I'm
Speaker 1: in the middle of something. I don't want to leave it.
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't want to leave that shift.
Speaker 1: I don't want to leave. I'm like, I want to
Speaker 1: say so it's hard. But if it was a nine
Speaker 1: o'clock shift at night, it was different. I had the
Speaker 1: whole day and then I go out at night to
Speaker 1: go to work. At night, I had one. I had
Speaker 1: one ship. It was nine forty five and five thirty,
Speaker 1: and it was fun because it's not it's not crowded.
Speaker 1: It's that there are a couple nights are a little crazy,
Speaker 1: like Friday sight, I feel a little crazy. But most
Speaker 1: of the time it was quiet. We'd have the lights
Speaker 1: down low, We're just relaxing, talking to each other, catching
Speaker 1: up on life, playing music, playing movies, whatever, and then
Speaker 1: like and in the morning, we all go to breakfast
Speaker 1: because everybody's going to working. If go to work, we
Speaker 1: go to breakfast because you know, for us it was
Speaker 1: like dinner or whatever. We go to breakfast, and then
Speaker 1: and then we all go to our homes. And for me,
Speaker 1: I would I would do a few things. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: go to sleep right away. It took me a while
Speaker 1: before I went to sleep, and then I'd go to sleep,
Speaker 1: and I would sleep till about well two or three.
Speaker 1: I'ld give my eight hours, six eight hours, and then
Speaker 1: I would get up and I said enough time. Because
Speaker 1: I worked so late, I had enough time to do stuff.
Speaker 1: And I was raising kids. I was able to talk
Speaker 1: to them, see what's going on in school. If I
Speaker 1: had a second job. A couple times I had second jobs,
Speaker 1: that maybe maybe on that day I went to that
Speaker 1: job that day. I tried not to work on the
Speaker 1: same day, and it always worked. I would say this.
Speaker 1: So I tried to make sure my I worked every
Speaker 1: single day, but rarely both jobs the same day, if
Speaker 1: that makes any sense, And that maybe once in a while,
Speaker 1: but I U see, it was like, no, today is
Speaker 1: the watch place. Tomorrow is a video place. Tomorrow is
Speaker 1: the gym. Like you're saying, it was all different days
Speaker 1: I tried. It was a lot of Sometimes it would
Speaker 1: it would be like the morning shift, here after and there.
Speaker 1: It depends. It's not you filling in for people whatever.
Speaker 1: That did happen sometimes, or I took extra shifts because
Speaker 1: I saw extra shifts. But I wonder, could I be
Speaker 1: a waiter again? Can I be a dispatcher again. I've
Speaker 1: been working nights recently. I've just been up late and
Speaker 1: working nice ta get napster in a day and working nights.
Speaker 1: It's quiet. There's something magical about the nighttime and kind
Speaker 1: of scary at the same time, and I like it
Speaker 1: for some reason. I like it. I was just like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is good. I'm just like I'm up here, I'm
Speaker 1: getting shit done. It's good. It reminds me of the
Speaker 1: old days of that. But I always always want to
Speaker 1: be like, could I work a nice shift? So I
Speaker 1: remember when I was when I back going back to
Speaker 1: you looking for a job in ten years ago. I
Speaker 1: looked at They're all office jobs. They were all office
Speaker 1: jobs or jobs inside did entry stuff. Or I didn't
Speaker 1: want I didn't want to work in retail reserves. I
Speaker 1: did get a retail job again word of mouth. I
Speaker 1: was working for this client as an organizer. They hired
Speaker 1: me on the floor and I actually paid me my
Speaker 1: rate and the problem I didn't for like three months,
Speaker 1: couldn't do anymore. And she was she was very interesting
Speaker 1: boss and I still love her today and I love
Speaker 1: it as a person. As the boss was a little
Speaker 1: out there and I felt restricted in what I could do.
Speaker 1: There are things I really wanted to do there, but
Speaker 1: it's not my store, it's their store, and they weren't
Speaker 1: and this person wasn't really open to ideas. They wanted
Speaker 1: things a certain way and that was it. So I
Speaker 1: was restricted, couldn't do much, but I was an opener closer.
Speaker 1: It left me alone most of the time, and it
Speaker 1: was like but it was bored out of my mind.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a busy store, so I was bored most
Speaker 1: of the time. So I can't do things. They're really
Speaker 1: and basically babysitting. You know. I was getting paid like
Speaker 1: forty bucks an hour thirty four eight, which is good
Speaker 1: for retail. And she was like, I really want a manager,
Speaker 1: but I was like, I don't want management. I have
Speaker 1: my own business. I literally have my own business. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to figure this out right now while I'm
Speaker 1: dealing with some stuff with my business. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be a manager because I didn't want that job.
Speaker 1: And and and then I knew quitting. I just couldn't
Speaker 1: take it anymore. And I differently once and I realized retail,
Speaker 1: I can't do anymore that that shit had sailed. Food
Speaker 1: starts I haven't done in years. I've been a waiter
Speaker 1: in years I have. I wonder if I could do
Speaker 1: it again. I have no idea. I'm being a dispatcher
Speaker 1: of our operator, you know, part of me things. Should
Speaker 1: I look for that and see if like I'd be
Speaker 1: kind of curious, like do it for a few months,
Speaker 1: you know, I like to go somewhere. I always wonder
Speaker 1: if I can still do that, because I have good
Speaker 1: memories of doing it. It's a lot of work, it
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. I don't know, mar it's
Speaker 1: the other thing about But I said, luck and blessings
Speaker 1: and the right place for my friends and family who
Speaker 1: are looking at places to live for my friends family
Speaker 1: looking for jobs. For you out there looking for jobs
Speaker 1: and places to live. I know some some for you
Speaker 1: where you live is ugh uh. And I understand that
Speaker 1: and totally get it, and I just want the best
Speaker 1: for anybody, anybody working and making money and doing things
Speaker 1: we do noversta on here rich, So we gotta we
Speaker 1: gotta do it. I'm James Satt Junior says fifty plus.
Speaker 1: It's like a longer episode I've done in a while.
Speaker 1: It got me reminiscent. But we this shows out every Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Talk to you next time.