Six Word Saturday - Loving Work

It's insane, but I'm loving it!

Hahaha, ok, I haven't actually mentioned where my new job is on my blog, and I don't intend to because we've all heard the horror stories of employers tracking you down. It's a high street name here in the UK, although you wouldn't find families in there and you wouldn't neccissarily buy anything of use either (and despite my six words, it's not McDonalds). It is hereby known as "the shop".

It's not a testing job by any stretch of the imagination, and some of the clinentelle are less than savoury. The old men are a bit lecherous at times and the young men can be surly and intimidating. The women on the other hand are lovely so it all evens out.

My workmates are stars, and very patient. During our induction we were only really taken through things like health and safety, crime prevention in the workplace and personal security. We weren't told anything about the meat of our work, how to do it, how to use the till system and how to process our customers orders, so I've felt at times like the biggest n00b in the whole wide world. But my colleagues have shown an amazing ammount of patience In the space of a week I've learned more about this particular product than I'd done in my entire life to date, and it wasn't as if I've never had any experience at all with it.

In other jobs, particularly a certain sales based one, they couldn't spare you the time of day (even though, once again, the induction was based entirely around sales tactics and health and safety as opposed to how to actually do the job) because their own personal gain was at risk if they took any time out to help...and yet this was the meat and bones of the over all training. It was ridiculous. The same can't be said about this place, and when I'm on my first evening shift tonight (which should be quiet, apparently) I'll finally be sitting down to learn some of the nitty gritty aspects with my assistant manager.

It's a minimum wage gig and it probably won't be a 'career job' (and as much as I enjoy it now whilst I'm buzzing around in my bubbles of 'new job' high doesn't mean I'll feel the same way in 3 months time) but for now it's freaking awesome. It's probably more to do with the fact that I'm in work at all as opposed to this job in particular, but this along with some of the recent changes I've made to my life means I currently feel happier than I have done in a long, long time.