![]() a resume here, a resume there Indeed, Monster, LinkedIn, everywhere rejections galore, day after day forever pursuing other candidates networking events, mentors, webinars light at the end of the tunnel stays so far reaching out, keeping it up what else is there? just me and the hunt grad school? freelance? give it a try! building skills, growing knowledge, budding self-actualization, oh my! but look, an unexpected email... with no watching opportunity comes knocking "enthusiastic, bubbly, genuine, bright"-- they loved me 2 week notice written, just so ready to begin oh, but wait: the project/position postponed again and again and again back to the drawing board, this time with help three more offers, ready to go? just getting grip! furniture store, start-up growth, recruit maybe? tell me more! decisions, decisions, must only pick one start-up excitement beckons my soul plus low pay and conflict of interest (with business of my own) respectively, settle the score ballin' salary, owners love Hayek, total cloud nine somebody pinch me, I swear I can fly big day forgotten, hospitalized stress, walkouts, "chivalry", just disorganized at best true gentlemen know that no means no body and mind, also my car and my home this is my ship, I run it, it's my say so, I am my own too good to be true as colors begin to show demeaning, yelling, texting all hours of the night damned if you do, damned if you don't: it's somehow my fault Jekyll and Hyde, fear over anger fuels the flight in the siren's open arms, prodigal barista has yet to lose hope making it up, along we go, just like Jobs, just like Schultz always new players, ever changing rules, nobody really knows the long game sucks, but it's the only way to grow as both pawn and queen, to each their own
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(formerly "Bare Barista Threads" and "Memoirs of a Pizza Girl")With a year of delivering pizza, two and a half years as a barista, and some more time in the trenches, I have plenty of stories, thoughts, and musings. The days that threatened to break me all the while built me. I want to help others in my profession view their work as an opportunity, too. This is my soap box. Archives
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