Author: Olivia

(warning, kinda long) interview today with a great company as a customer service agent for HVAC and plumbing etc. I mask for interviews, btw.. The first two people I talked to were great! First one had to step away due to something within the job that needed her help. Second one was VERY nice, soft spoken, cordial and very professional. They both liked me for this role. I had told 2nd guy that I smoke the green stuff, so he was so kind to check with HR to see if they test for that specifically, and wanted me to meet a project manager. Sure, fine. I walk into his office, first thing he says is “you don't have to wear that in here, but you can if you want.” Me: I like to mask for initial interviews and initial meetings, thank you. Him: (dismissively) yea yea I know you, can…

I get paid every two weeks. The majority of all my bills are due on a single check. I make $10 an hour 40 hours a week. After tax almost every check is only about $700. Just did the math for how much of my check has to go to bills this time around and it’s just shy of $600. No food just bills. Guess I’ll see if I can survive for two weeks with 100 bucks. I’ve always lived paycheck to paycheck but I’m seriously about to break down.

I joined this school a little late in the year but was told it was told it was a great school. Best in my area in fact. Because I wasn’t getting any callbacks from other jobs outside of teaching, I decided to apply despite it being only 35k salary. If I had started at the beginning of the year, I would have gotten about 55k. Everything was going decent for a few months until parents started requesting ridiculous accommodations for their kids like: 1. No handwritten assignments (the parents thought since they don’t use it on a daily basis then their child doesn’t either) 2. No reading aloud in class 3. No points off for misspelling (despite doing the work online with an integrated spellchecker) The administration bows to anything and everything from the parents and just tells the teachers too bad, so sad. My class size total was 160+…