Wow I think this is the
longest time I’ve ever gone without updating my blog. I think that’s a good sign; I tend to blog
more when things are getting me down and I need somewhere to vent my
frustrations.
I have been back at home now
for over a month – 6 weeks in fact – and have been working as a shop assistant
at a farm shop for 2 weeks. I didn’t
have too much trouble finding a job; I think because my return coincided with
the end of the summer holidays and the students going back to uni and so
everywhere was looking for replacement staff anyway. It’s not a great job; I get minimum wage and
it can be incredibly dull and repetitive some days but it’s at least good to be
earning money again. I don’t see myself
working there much beyond Christmas anyway (*touch wood*). Anxiety wise I have had ups and downs at this
new job. It’s customer service - have
spent the majority of my time on the tills.
At the beginning it was pretty scary; my first day was a Saturday and it
was packed in the shop; I was serving customers non-stop all day so I was sort
of thrown in at the deep end, especially as I was still getting to grips with
the till. I’m generally okay serving
customers now – I can smile and say hello and that comes to ... please,
thankyou, goodbye etc. But when customers
try and make conversation with me I seem to dry up and can’t think of how to
respond to them, especially if there are other people around. I am having trouble talking to my colleagues
though – granted I haven’t really had that much chance to get to know them
anyway as I’m often left on my own on the tills while they’re on the shop
floor. Yesterday was a better day though
– it wasn’t very busy so I had a chance to chat to one of the other girls there
while we were sorting through stock together.
So work wise it could be better – then again it could also be a lot, lot
worse.
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