Well hello there again children of the Information Generation, and welcome back to the belated but fully deserved blogosphere, where I will once again blow your minds with my strong opinions, bold thoughts, and general use of the occasional profanity. Let me get started by first apologizing for not having posted in a little over two weeks, I have no excuse save for the fact that I was entirely unmotivated all last week to make up for the lost week due to shitty work schedule, you see I spent the last week on my couch mainly watching reruns of the MLB Network's The Rundown, and breezing through the entirety of News Radio on Netflix. Why, you ask? Because my job once again afforded me another week long vacation that I didn't ask for nor did I want, simply, sorry Brian there is no work for you this week and therefore no paycheck, please try again next week hopefully something will come around by then. Now, normally I wouldn't complain about being asked to take a few days off here and there, and maybe the occasional week, as was the case when I requested Thursday and Friday off immediately following the Monday of July 4th, but seriously this is at least the fourth week this year I have been asked to take off and adding up the other random days I have been asked to take off I would guess that I have spent a grand total of five weeks not working when I could have and should have been. That's five weeks sans paycheck in a year when I am hopefully saving some money for my triumphant return to the world of academia, my books for trade school are totaling upwards of six hundred dollars, and am currently in the process of moving out of my house for September first. Are you starting to understand where my stress is coming from? So last week I decided against doing anything productive really and spent at least ten hours sleeping and the rest of the day either surfing the web and blasting one off or watching various television without my pants on, in fact I bet it would be safe to say that of the seven days last week I bothered putting on pants in three of them and those were the weekend, although I may have made one more trip Thursday that involved putting pants on as well I was just in too much of a complete disaster zone that I really can't remember.
Now today I once again returned to work, only to learn that a.) there is nothing for me to do on my current job site save for gas up the truck and hand people tools every now and again and b.) nobody knows if I am going to even work till Wednesday let alone Friday. Now you might ask why not ask for a layoff, seems to me that I could save myself the aggravation and annoyances of the current situation and hopefully find myself in a better position where I will get forty hours a week, and at least if I am not I can collect unemployment and that is at least a steady once a week paycheck as opposed to getting one every four out of five weeks or so. My answer is simple. Hours. I need to work enough hours to take the test for my electrical license so that I can possibly provide myself with enough side work to actually enjoy myself once in a while whilst I entertain the possibility of not having a real job for multiple years, and my license would allow me to take a shortened version of the New York Electrical licensing test if they don't allow me to work with the Massachusetts license alone. I am currently just under six months from accumulating enough work hours for this test, and I have a little less than one year to get them, so a six to eight month layoff is the last thing I need right now.
Now more than likely I will work most of the rest of the year and I will easily get my license in time to start saving some real money and make some big boy paychecks as my co-workers call them, but for now I am worried, and I feel I have every right to be as I watch more and more about how our economy is in the proverbial shitter and is showing no signs of recovering. Already my work schedule is light and it isn't out of the realm of possibility that I receive an unwanted layoff for an extended length of time.
So once again I am sorry for the delay in blog posts but I promise to get one more up this week and will be returning to my twice weekly schedule from here on out.
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