Good Job Hunting

So, i thought i would make this post a little lighter and happier because everyone has been kinda stressed from the promicin ban. So, i hope this brings a little smile to your face.

Xavier, Nicole, and I decided yesterday that we needed to go out and find jobs. I agreed because we need to look and seem as NORMAL as possible so that we don't bring any unwonted attention to ourselves. And Hey, 3 teenagers living by themselves need money from somewhere. My parents didn't give us much and Nicole's family doesn't have any to give. They are still working with the insurance company to see if there's ANYTHING they can do to get money for a new house. Nicole still feels kinda upset that we had to leave like we did, but we explained to her that we really didn't have a choice. A way out had came and we had to take it before something else happened to our families.

So, the job hunt began! We started out looking at the same places, but by noon we realized that there weren't any good job openings for 3 people at the exact same place. So, after we ate lunch, we went our seperate ways. Nicole was the first to find a job. She stopped at a resturant near were we ate lunch and they happened to be hiring waitresses. It wasn't the perfect job, but with minimum wage and tips she would make plenty of money. I knew that i didn't want to waitress. Last summer in Cali, i had a job working at a Denny's waitressing. The people there were so rude and the most i ever got in a tip was "stay in school". People there were TOO cheap and i worked WAY too hard not to make any money. So, i was looking for a comfortable desk job that i could make some money and not work as hard(haha). I took a bus downtown to see if there were any job openings. Unfortunately, i was too young to get a REAL job with the "BIG boys". And i kept hearing that advice in my head, "stay in school!". I never really thought about going to college and even if i did i didn't know what i would major in or anything. But i took that advice and met with the admission officer at a local college. I told him that i was really just looking for a job and i really didn't have the money or the time to go to college. He said that "I have the PERFECT job for you. And who knows maybe in time, you will even change your mind about college." Okay, whatever. Well, he set me up to work in the library of the college. The money would go straight to me since i wasn't actually a student and if i ever change my mind, i can use that job to pay for college. We will see, i guess....haha

Now poor, poor Xay. He didn't have as much luck as me and Nicole did. Almost EVERY place he went turned him down because of one reason or anything. So, he gave up for the day at about 2. We started yelling at him and saying that "If we can get a job, YOU can get a job too." He finally decided to listen to us, AT 9 o'clock later that NIGHT! The only thing open that was walking distance from our house was a McDonald's. We told him that, you wasted all day and now you need to get a job wherever you can. So, he applied and was hired on the spot. He hates his job and i think he hates us for making him take it. He said he never in his life thought he would ever have to say the words, "Do you want fries with that?". Nicole and I FELL DOWN laughing so hard at him complaining. It was his fault, but i told him that it was only temporary. Really that's true for ALL of us because we don't know what our future holds because of all this promicin stuff. But all i know is that for right now, we have to focus on living instead of on the people who want us dead. There's always some good in life, we just have to find it and hold on to it.

Alex