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and it feels pretty good, although in all actuality it shouldn't. All I do is type stuff into a computer for eight hours a day. It's boring, mindless, and a monkey could do it...yet I strangely feel as though I'm accomplishing something with every day that passes.
Of course, I just started on Wednesday, so maybe the feeling of completion will wear off soon. In fact, I'm pretty sure it will, and I'll be climbing the walls wanting to do something more exciting. Which can only mean that I'll finally have the motivation to get through my online courses and get my bachelor's degree. Then it's on to grad school, for which I've promised myself a move and the freedom to study something I love. What that is, I'm not sure of yet. Maybe it'll come to me as I try to decipher people's chicken scratches and type their information into the huge corporate computer system.
The job isn't really that bad. If it wasn't for the pay, it'd be awesome. Quite frankly, $1088 before taxes a month isn't too shabby for this area, especially if you don't have a degree. Still, it's pretty far below the poverty line, so a step up career wise is in order before too terribly long. But I do love the people I work with. I'm becoming fast friends with a few of my fellow trainees, and my supervisor and I bonded over the fact that we're both diabetics. Plus, I'm not on the phone or slinging hash somewhere, so it's definitely not the worst thing ever. There's also overtime if I can unlazy myself enough to do more of it. So, yay to that, and yay to not sitting in front of the computer being a fatass all day. Which, when it comes right down to it, I'm still doing in a sense, but at least I'm getting paid for the majority of it now.
In other news, I have my biology final tomorrow. It's my only one this semester, since I only took one class so I'd be available to work. of course, the way things worked out I could have just signed up for classroom stuff anyway, but whatever. WIU's extension offers a bachelor's degree online, so I'm gonna try to transfer in for the fall. I might not get in until spring since I still owe over a grand to ISU before I can get my transcript, but we'll see. The application deadline is July 15th, so I just might make it. Even if I don't, I might be able to get in conditionally or something.
In health news, I'm not feeling half as sluggish as I was. I have to take the bus for an hour's ride to get home from work, and I've been getting off at the grocery store seven blocks from my apartment and walking it. It's not much, but it's something, and I'm still doing my stairs and weights on top of that. I keep telling myself I should get up half an hour earlier and do one of the early morning workouts they show on Lifetime, but my body needs to get used to the new sleep schedule first.
Well, break's over, so it's time to move to another computer!
Of course, I just started on Wednesday, so maybe the feeling of completion will wear off soon. In fact, I'm pretty sure it will, and I'll be climbing the walls wanting to do something more exciting. Which can only mean that I'll finally have the motivation to get through my online courses and get my bachelor's degree. Then it's on to grad school, for which I've promised myself a move and the freedom to study something I love. What that is, I'm not sure of yet. Maybe it'll come to me as I try to decipher people's chicken scratches and type their information into the huge corporate computer system.
The job isn't really that bad. If it wasn't for the pay, it'd be awesome. Quite frankly, $1088 before taxes a month isn't too shabby for this area, especially if you don't have a degree. Still, it's pretty far below the poverty line, so a step up career wise is in order before too terribly long. But I do love the people I work with. I'm becoming fast friends with a few of my fellow trainees, and my supervisor and I bonded over the fact that we're both diabetics. Plus, I'm not on the phone or slinging hash somewhere, so it's definitely not the worst thing ever. There's also overtime if I can unlazy myself enough to do more of it. So, yay to that, and yay to not sitting in front of the computer being a fatass all day. Which, when it comes right down to it, I'm still doing in a sense, but at least I'm getting paid for the majority of it now.
In other news, I have my biology final tomorrow. It's my only one this semester, since I only took one class so I'd be available to work. of course, the way things worked out I could have just signed up for classroom stuff anyway, but whatever. WIU's extension offers a bachelor's degree online, so I'm gonna try to transfer in for the fall. I might not get in until spring since I still owe over a grand to ISU before I can get my transcript, but we'll see. The application deadline is July 15th, so I just might make it. Even if I don't, I might be able to get in conditionally or something.
In health news, I'm not feeling half as sluggish as I was. I have to take the bus for an hour's ride to get home from work, and I've been getting off at the grocery store seven blocks from my apartment and walking it. It's not much, but it's something, and I'm still doing my stairs and weights on top of that. I keep telling myself I should get up half an hour earlier and do one of the early morning workouts they show on Lifetime, but my body needs to get used to the new sleep schedule first.
Well, break's over, so it's time to move to another computer!