So today I started back to work for the first time in over 2 years.
As I have mentioned I have been home playing ‘housewife’ for the last two years and taking care of my two year old daughter. My pilot hubby now works a schedule that requires only two days per week of work (sometimes three), which leaves me available to work the other 5.
My new job is in retail. I would prefer not to disclose where, so I won’t. I will simply say retail. I am employed in a mall and this is my first time doing retail.
I was offered a position of ‘sales associate’ which is the bottom of the ladder so to speak – but also told that there are hopes that I will reach at least a ‘key holder’ position before my wedding which takes place at the end of July.
Here is my dilemma. Given the way the manager does the schedule (it is posted on Thursdays for the following week) and the policy is even scheduling (in other words I can’t say “I need ever Wednesday off”) so that everyone gets their turn working weekdays/weekends), it seems it will be impossible to take on a second job! My goals were to find a job that had at least 30 hours a week – and this one is not promising anything more than 20 plus its coming into the slowest season for them). ALSO I had been HOPING DESPERATELY to find a job well over 2 months ago to start saving for the wedding!
It was the first job offered and I took it thinking – some work is better than no work at all.
Yet today, I got a call from a job I had been REALLY hoping to get, offering 44 hours per week (which is more than I had really wanted). They wanted me to have an open availability (which I don’t know quite how I would manage given James’ schedule and having no actual babysitter for my daughter.)
I am so hesitant to leave my current job where (so far) the staff seem so very nice. The manager has agreed to let me have 2 weeks off in the summer for the wedding / honeymoon and who I have agreed to work for.
Is it totally lame that I have company loyalty after ONE SHIFT?????
How am I going to pay for this wedding?? I am starting to lose sleep.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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this stinks. i dont work now, but all ive ever done is retail. everything from the sales assoc. to managerial positions. the scheduling can be a blessing or a curse. a lot of managers arent quite as strict about it as your current manager seems to be though.
ReplyDeletemy husband is the manager of a major shoe store. living in a college town, its a given that people have other things going on in their lives and as long as they are up front and give him plenty of notice, he has no problem working around it. i hope you're able to work around it soon.
that being said, i completely understand the position. i would love to work, but its kinda hard because of my husbands schedule. even though he can pretty much make his own, he still has to work some nights/weekends, and if someone calls in sick or there is an emergency, he has to be there. its a tough situation.
Tuff call. I would say go with the 20 hour a week job and keep your eyes open. You may find contacts and hear things that you would not be privy too if you were not there. Connections. Having to not put your daughter in daycare is worth a lot both financially and socially.
ReplyDeleteHope everything works out for ya hun.