Post Office job

Well bloggers,
I have both had and lost a government related job with the post office. The hardest part of the job was actually making sure I got everything delivered to the right house.


I suppose the job started when I went in for "classroom" training the Monday after the musical I was in had it's last show. The one thing I hated about the training was the early morning commute to the city. The nice part was when the group went to another area for the training. The part I feared the most was the driving training because I heard that once you hit something, you fail the test. The driving training was in two parts, classroom and behind the wheel. The behind the wheel was on a different day. So, I was a little relieved that I wouldn't have to be behind the wheel until a later date.


Once the "classroom" training was over, it was time for me to report to the station and get some on the job training. I actually never got the training until about a week and a half later. Until then, I was doing some clerical work of bringing numbered hampers back into the station, sorting "3rd bundles" of mail that we usually throw in the trash, and packages into the numbered bundles. When I got the on the job training, everything started to make a little more sense from what I learned in the classroom. The hardest part for me was keeping all the mail from going all over the place. The day after my final training, I was immediately put to work delivering mail. Since I was not driving yet, I was assigned to do pushcart delivery of the area around the station. The thing I liked about the delivery was how the bundles were numbered to make it easier for me.


Another hard part for me was the behind the wheel training. I was so scared because of how the trainer was yelling at me. I don't like to be yelled at because of how it reminds me of when my dad yells at me for making mistakes. But I did pass, so I guess there is something good that came of the experience.


From the moment I got behind the wheel, until the reason I lost the job, I found myself in a lot of different places around the area. I spent a lot of time in old San Mateo and Foster City. The only time I was in my neighborhood was when I was delivering Amazon only packages for Amazon Sunday. The post office has a contract with Amazon for delivering packages on Sundays and holidays. I both liked and hated this because of how the deliveries kept me from being on time to rehearsals and performances for the show I was in with the Belmont Community Players.


The reason I lost the job was because of a hit and run accident. I was driving one of the vehicles, turned around a corner, and hit a parked car. I got out of the vehicle, inspected the damage of the car that I hit, saw that everything was okay, then proceeded on with the delivery. What I failed to do was report that I got into an accident with my supervisor. In the moment, I was thinking that everything would be okay, and nobody would notice. Two days later, my supervisor had me look at the vehicle, and I saw that the vehicle had some scrapes on it's side. I am still feeling the pain of what mistakes can be.

Update on life

I have been through a lot of changes since the last time I was on this blog site. I have quit my job with Restaurants on the Run, I have been a missionary in Redwood City as both a PE Coach and evening tutor, and I have acted in a couple of local theatre productions. I don't have a girl yet, but I have asked one to a movie. So that's a plus. Take care!

Update on life-Love Life

Now I come to the one blog post I dread telling about, my love life. I don't know why I want to tell about this, but I feel it's best to explain to help myself theriputically. I once told my mother that I wanted to concentrate on my studies first, then concentrate on finding someone in my life. The only problem with this is how long it actually took me to complete my studies, 7 YEARS!! Well, I graduated and began my search. My search actually started when my mother had her foot worked on, four years ago. Before returning to school, the family business had to get someone to come in and cover for me while I was in class. That someone turned out to be a beautiful readhead. I soon went crazy over her. (Still am a little bit.) But, it turned out not to be. She found a boyfriend, and I graduated from college. About a year later, I thougth I found the one. She was seeing someone else at the time, and so I kept my distance. I remember we met at a BBQ at a house in San Mateo. From then on, I secretly wished she was mine. A month or two later, she broke up with her beau, and she was free for the taking. It was at the time of her breakup that I ran into her at a class on relationships at my home church. We only briefly talked, but I thought there might be more.
At the end of Summer, when small groups at my home church resumed, I learned of an opertunity to do some acting. It had to be a strange coincidence that she was there, too. I guess we did have something in common after all.
My crush for her blossomed over time, and one day I even got enough courage to ask her out. But she was out of town, and nothing could be done about it. The nice part about it was she said that she would have loved to go. Well, after this I just had to keep on trying. I got her a valentine's day card, told her I really liked her, but she said that she was trying to hear God's calling, and she felt it was not into a relationship. That was hard to hear, but I feel that I needed to hear it in order to just try to move on. Well I'm still looking.
The thing about me is that I try and go for the pritty ones because I want to be cured of my shyness/bashfulness. I just have that kind of personality. The real odd part about my personality is that I can easily be in front of an audience, but not with someone one on one. Isn't that weird?

Update on Life-Missions calling

At the last PCC YA retreat called "Hot Water Weekend," I decided to consciously make the decision to accept Jesus Christ into my life. So I was baptised by salvation, and felt great for doing so. Shortly after this I felt a calling by God to go into the missions field. I heard about an opportunity to go India. I felt this calling because of how my heart reaches out for those in need. The people of India were desperately in need. There are apparently over one thousand casts in India. The caste system is related to the belief in reincarnation. If you are good in a life, then you will be given a better life. If you are bad, then you go down in the next life. The people who were in need of Christ's love were those of the lower caste called "Untouchables." They are called the "Untouchables," because of how they are to never be touched by anyone. What I would have done is to wash their feet. This, in addition to telling others of what Christ has done for them, would have been really something special. But, because of how I was being lasy and procrastinating, I never got the opportunity to go.
I am so thankful that God has given me this other opportunity to serve him. After I learned of not making the deadline for India, I still wanted to serve God. Then I came across an opportunitty that I had initially overlooked. Aperently the place where the gospel was born, needs it once again. I remeber an entry I wrote in my prayer journal about bringing peace to Israel. Suddenly, I knew what I was truly called to do. I then, with the help of a member of my small group, began to work on getting support in my mission to bring the Gospel back to where it started from. I recently have recieved the finacial support, and can't wait to go on my journey.

A View from the Other Side

A report came in the other day that was very interesting. Some scouts reported hearing something from the other side of the creek. Apparently, there is a whole other side that the enemy has been camping out on. I sent a couple of my best men on it, and they found out that it is true. The camp is located high above the swimming hole. There is a trail that leads down to the creek that can easily be accessed if you footing is sure. Not far away down creek is both a low water level access point and a suspension bridge. Knowing this information, I can only hope the demigods are ready if an attack comes.

Update on Life-Jobs

Well, I haven't written in this in a long time. I thought I would just write a couple of posts and see what happened. Since the last time I wrote in this blog, I have both lost and gained jobs. I decided to quit my job with RGIS because of a lack of advancement opportunities. It seemed the only way I was going to be able to advance in my career there was to count faster, and not sit on my ass counting out merchandise. The other reason I quit was because of schedule conflictions. They wanted for me to work over a special time for me, Hot Water Weekend. I consider that special because of a promise I made to a friend that I would help him out.
Lucky for me, I found a job right after quiting RGIS. It was with a merchandising company called Anderson Merchandisers. What they did was merchandise movies and music in Best Buy stores. I liked this job because it allowed me to pay off all of my outstanding bills. This was great because I became debt free. Not only that, I actually had some money now for other things. Sure, I did spend it frivoulously on things. But the point was I enjoyed my weath. I enjoyed it so much that I lost sight of really important things. Like an opportunity to serve God in India. (I tell more about that in another blog.)
Besides the money, there was trouble that came along with this job. Trouble in the form of my co-worker, Daniel. It seemed with him that I always needed to be at the job, even though I was not scheduled that day. What I was told by my boss, Mr. Rodriques, is that the shcedule was more of a guideline. I guess that's true. Besides Daniel's insistance of being with him working, there also came a lecture of what I should have done while on the job. Needless to say, I was both sad and relieved when I was let go of Anderson at the beginning of this year.
Above all of the short term jobs that I have held, there has been one job that I have held steadily over the time I have graduated. That has been Restaurants on the Run. Here at ROTR, I have found most of my time in the south area. I don't mind being in the south. It's just all the waiting around while orders come in that I have lost my mind from. Besides working in the south,I have occasionally been working in the city of San Francisco. This has been especially frustrating because I don't know the city all that well. I have gotten to know it a little better now.
Now, I am starting a job with The Home Depot as a sales lead. What I will be doing is asking people if they have any need for roofs, siding, or windows. If they do, then I will schedule an apointment for an estimator to come out. It seems like my perfume job where I tried to sell perfume, but I will see how it goes.

Frustration with my account

Today I learned that my account is in the negative of almost $100.00. The real frustrating part is that I thought my account was fine, only about $25.00. When I cheked up on it last Saturday, I had $220.00 in there. That was going to help pay for my going to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. But I was wrong about it. Aperently, the way things work in the online banking world is that they do things a little bakwards in how they make processing your transactions by taking your recent purcases, and saving them for last, or something like that. I don't know. I am just feeling a little angry right now, and it's making me have a involuntary spasm. I also get them whenever I become too overwhelmed about things in my life. After writing here, I am feeling a little better.
Another thing that anoys me is that I cant get to my cell phone a lot. It always seems to go to voincemail when I pick it up. I do check on it later, but the fact that the phone doesn't want me to answer the call right away iritates me.