Hang Around

This has been a funny week. It started with me having a terrible 24 hours. I woke up at 9:30am on Monday and went about my day. Just as I'm about to fall asleep at 2am I get a call from work saying that I am half an hour late. I argue that I wasn't scheduled to work. I get there and they fucking changed the schedule without even telling me. I end up working until 11 in the morning without a wink of sleep. I was pissed. I threatened to quit. I nearly did. I called my father and he convinced me to stick it out. I started to think deeper about everything. I wasn't just my job I hated, it was everything. I felt like ditching town without telling a soul. I wanted to go somewhere new and start from scratch. Anything the relieve me of the fact that my life was mundane. That's what drives me crazy. When I start feeling average and destined for mediocrity. I wanted to curse everything and do it before I had second thoughts.

Wednesday night I was still feeling shitty. I spent most of the day moving my girlfriend into her own place and had to go to work that night at 1am. My friends were out drinking and I thought about fucking those donuts right in their holes. I called my dad for encouragement and he told me to hang in there. I stuck with his advice.

I was at an all time low when the phone rang thursday afternoon. It was Brandon Williams from Destiny Infinity Financial Solutions. He said, "I like you. The board likes you. You've got the job. You start the first of September." Just like that I started to come out of my rut. I felt like quitting Dunkin on the spot but instead did the noble thing and gave two weeks notice. My boss sad he was sad to see me go but knew it was a better job. He offered to write me a letter of recommendation. Now I'll have that should I ever need it.

It is certainly reassuring to know that anything can work out as long as I can stick it out and work diligently. I thank my father for making sure I didn't give up. I didn't take the easy way out and I'm better for it. I guess I'll just hang around until I love this town.

"Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff."