Thirteen fucking months!? I mean I knew it had been a long time but in no way did I think it had been thirteen months! Why in the world would I have gone 13 months in between blog post? I like writing on my blog. It is kind of like therapy at times and then sometimes it acts as a canister I can pour my crazy into.
My good friend Mike ask that in this Blog I explain exactly why it has been so long. He also specifically noted that he didn’t want it edited, which is to say “Tim don’t leave the juicy bits out!” Well I like Mike and I respect him so I will take his advice. Although avoiding editing might be difficult, I mean after all 13 months is a long time. There have been entire wars fought in a week! To be perfectly honest, I have no problem talking about anything and everything I have done in the past year plus, it’s the stuff I haven’t done that makes me pause and reconsider this blog idea at all. But we will get into the analyzing in a minute, first let’s do the 13 month recap!
Ok here we go!
So last year at the end of October, with the weight of my financial burden and my overall mental health at stack I decided to get another job. Debt is awful, and sometimes the worst part is looking at all these massive bills and thinking to your self: “fuck! I don’t even know what this bought me!” I own nothing but books and trinkets, nothing of real value to anyone but me. I did buy a computer but other than that I have no large ticket items to blame for my current situation. Boy it sure was frustrating. But I digress: so I went on line to all the places near me that might be looking for some extra help on nights and weekends, and after only two short weeks of searching I got a job at my local friendly Office Max! I was to start working in there copy center, I assumed making copies, which of course was the correct assumption! So I was off! Timothy Gillespie was working two jobs 60 something hours a week! I will be honest at first it was not bad at all. I kind of enjoyed having two different jobs going on. But as the year went on, the stress of the two jobs has begun to burn me out a bit. At times I have gone 3 weeks without a day off, the worse stretch was 24 days straight without a day off! By the end I could have killed an infant just for crying at a bad moment. It was what I expected it to be, in a way. You can’t argue with result though, and after this past year I am finally within striking distance of being debt free, also I have my credit score over 700, a huge accomplishment since it used to be under 500. Not to simplify the past 13 months, but that is it that is the reason for everything., or at least it was in the beginning.
In the early days of my two job adventure I was busy, whether it be at the bank answering 120 to 150 calls a day or at office max trying to learn the many ins and outs of the copy world. Busy is good, oh yeah I might complain about how busy I am and who doesn’t but as far as my overall well being is concerned, busy is the way to go. So for the first 3 to 4 months everything was actually going quite well with the plan. (I am sure I am not the only person who feels there life is plagued by the immortal “but”) But, then things began to stop, 120 to 150 calls a day went to 60 to 80 calls a day, and after I learned everything I needed to know about the copy center, well there was nothing to do but wait to copy things. Hence the return of my old archenemies: Boredom! To me boredom is the plagued of the 21st century. Ten things happen when I am bored:
It is getting late, so come back tomorrow and I will finish…I promise ;-)
My good friend Mike ask that in this Blog I explain exactly why it has been so long. He also specifically noted that he didn’t want it edited, which is to say “Tim don’t leave the juicy bits out!” Well I like Mike and I respect him so I will take his advice. Although avoiding editing might be difficult, I mean after all 13 months is a long time. There have been entire wars fought in a week! To be perfectly honest, I have no problem talking about anything and everything I have done in the past year plus, it’s the stuff I haven’t done that makes me pause and reconsider this blog idea at all. But we will get into the analyzing in a minute, first let’s do the 13 month recap!
Ok here we go!
So last year at the end of October, with the weight of my financial burden and my overall mental health at stack I decided to get another job. Debt is awful, and sometimes the worst part is looking at all these massive bills and thinking to your self: “fuck! I don’t even know what this bought me!” I own nothing but books and trinkets, nothing of real value to anyone but me. I did buy a computer but other than that I have no large ticket items to blame for my current situation. Boy it sure was frustrating. But I digress: so I went on line to all the places near me that might be looking for some extra help on nights and weekends, and after only two short weeks of searching I got a job at my local friendly Office Max! I was to start working in there copy center, I assumed making copies, which of course was the correct assumption! So I was off! Timothy Gillespie was working two jobs 60 something hours a week! I will be honest at first it was not bad at all. I kind of enjoyed having two different jobs going on. But as the year went on, the stress of the two jobs has begun to burn me out a bit. At times I have gone 3 weeks without a day off, the worse stretch was 24 days straight without a day off! By the end I could have killed an infant just for crying at a bad moment. It was what I expected it to be, in a way. You can’t argue with result though, and after this past year I am finally within striking distance of being debt free, also I have my credit score over 700, a huge accomplishment since it used to be under 500. Not to simplify the past 13 months, but that is it that is the reason for everything., or at least it was in the beginning.
In the early days of my two job adventure I was busy, whether it be at the bank answering 120 to 150 calls a day or at office max trying to learn the many ins and outs of the copy world. Busy is good, oh yeah I might complain about how busy I am and who doesn’t but as far as my overall well being is concerned, busy is the way to go. So for the first 3 to 4 months everything was actually going quite well with the plan. (I am sure I am not the only person who feels there life is plagued by the immortal “but”) But, then things began to stop, 120 to 150 calls a day went to 60 to 80 calls a day, and after I learned everything I needed to know about the copy center, well there was nothing to do but wait to copy things. Hence the return of my old archenemies: Boredom! To me boredom is the plagued of the 21st century. Ten things happen when I am bored:
- I start thinking way to much
- I stop speaking as much
- I grow ever more frustrated
- And short tempered
- I start to become a bit of a hypochondriac (not enough to see a doctor, but enough to think I might have a diseases)
- I become the king of procrastination ( give me two much to do and damn it I will just do it as fast as possible, give me too little and it will sit in a pile till I get “really” bored or it is past due)
- I can no longer be funny (or at least in my opinion, with out motion there is no emotion, I lose my spontaneous wit, I just use old material to fill in. A sad thing to have to watch)
- I eat enormous meals! I am talking 3000 calories in one sitting!
- I don’t do anything unless I absolutely have to. ( I would consider wearing depends)
- I just can’t stop hating Timothy Gillespie!
It is getting late, so come back tomorrow and I will finish…I promise ;-)
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