Friday, April 22, 2005

Shifting again

I have been assigned a new schedule as of today. I wasn’t as thrilled with the idea, even though it embodies the ideal hours, specially now on summer days, Monday through Friday, 4am to pm. Why aren’t I as happy with the circumstances, I may ask. Well, on my old schedule I put in forty hours in four days as instead of five and I had three days off throughout the week in any of which I could put my overtime. Not having weekends off wasn’t necessarily a bad thing; plenty of things can get accomplished on weekdays and having weekends off will mean that if I want to pull some overtime hours, I will have to work more than five days (food, travel, time, etc). If I wanted to party on a weekend, I could have done so after work: I got off at eleven in the evening and I didn’t start work until 3pm the next day. Besides, I know that my weekend schedule hasn’t been filled yet which brings to tears the whole point of having weekends off.
That said, I may add that I’m excited with what the new position represents for me. It means that I was chosen over other people who wanted it or even needed perhaps more than I did. I will get to spend more time in the lobby area which is where the implementation of my character-improvement techniques will take place. By character, I mean the way in which others perceive me as a person which can be and should be and will be magnified by the social skills I put into play: neatness, posture, relaxed rigidity, an air of graveness to the whole equation.

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