September 11, 2013

• Started Working

  Yesterday was my first day at my new job. I tried going in with an open-mind because I didn't know what to expect. I had this idea that pretty much what I was doing was taking stuff off a truck and loading it onto another one, and it's not really that far off; that's generally the concept, but it's much more detailed. Yesterday morning, I had to wake up early because I had to go buy black shorts, leather gloves, and steel-toe boots. The leather gloves weren't a problem because I had researched where to find some gloves and I fortunately found the same kind of gloves at Wal-Mart that were a different color. I thought I'd be able to find the black shorts at Wal-Mart, but I was mistaken. Turns out they put all the mens shorts on sale the week before so all they had left was grey pants and what not. I didn't want to look for boots at Wal-Mart because I know that they'd probably break somehow two months down the road. Also, they wouldn't be very comfortable. I did some research the night before and found some decent boots at Payless, so I went to Payless after Wal-Mart. I found the size I wanted and went to go check out, but the guy looked at the bottom of the shoes and said that one was a 9 and 1/2 while the other was a size 10. That was the last 9 1/2 size boot, so I decided to go home at this point so that I could research where to find shorts.

  To make a long story short, I went to about 3 other places before I went back to Wal-Mart to buy some steel-toe boots, and then I traveled to Target where I found some black cargo shorts. Three or so hours later, I got what I needed and was just waiting to go to work. I left around 4:15 because I didn't know how much traffic there was going to be, and I ended up being 30 minutes early. I wanted to sit in the car for a little while, but it was too hot so I decided around 5:10 to go ahead and tell them I'm here and everything.

  I started working around 5:30 PM and around 7:30-7:45 PM, I started to get a little winded. By this time, my shirt was soaking with sweat and I was starting to feel the exhaustion till then. My feet started to hurt, which is what my interviewer said what would happen the first couple weeks, and my mouth became increasingly dry. I was working with one of the supervisors, who said I was keeping a good pace with him, and I didn't know if I could take a water break or not. I found out that they have a fridge where you can put water, and there's a water fountain, and you can get water pretty much anytime you want. Had I drank water consistently, I probably would've been better but it's no matter. Time went by relatively quick the first half of working, but started to get a little slower. Since the area is smaller and there's many workers driving forklifts and stuff, you don't really have the opportunity to day dream or anything like that. If you fall behind, you can easily make mistakes. Plus, you don't have a set time to leave because you leave when the job is finished. We could've left at 10, but we didn't get done till about 10:45 PM.

  I underestimated how tired I was going to get, but that's okay. I think that I had a lot of things going on at once and if I loosen up, I'll be able to work consistently faster rather than over-exert myself the first half and slow down a little the second.

  Today is my second day at work, feeling a little bit tired but nothing medicine won't fix. I'm going to school in a bit so I get a little bit time to build up energy. We'll see what happens.

  • 1:48 pm
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