Yeah, I'm trying to find a replacement for my third shift front desk clerk but until then I'm stuck working Monday 3rd shifts. If you've worked third shift before you know the throbbing bone pain that is the "grave yard" shift. Before I became manager, I worked many a third shift. Mostly during one summer when I wanted to save up enough to pay for tuition for one semester at UK instead of taking out a loan.
So, for a couple months during school and throughout the summer I bussed tables during the week and worked third shift on the weekends. Now, I only worked two to three third shifts a week, so my body never really adjusted but you do found a rhythm. Everything you do you do with a purpose (if it's not already layed out for you) and you get a routine going. Now, as I cover for one of my workers who quit for a better paying job I think about how painfully tired I will be from 8 to 4 (my normal shift) and wonder why we need this dreadful shift.
What a shitty time to have to work. Now, since I'm almost 7 hours into my 16 hours here at the hotel I have to wonder when the last time (if ever) the son of a bitch corporatist Republicans worked a third shift...or held a second job for that matter. Now, with my wife and I both working we are lucky in that neither of us have to hold a second job to make it day to day.
Now, we don't have any children (though one is on the way). There are obviously people out there that who are not as fortunate as we are but I think to myself--you have the "working poor," some of whom have to work two jobs to make it and then you have middle class folks like us who don't have to work two jobs but both spouses do HAVE TO work to pay the mortgage, bills, and if car insurance isn't do to sock away more than what is automaticall deducted for my wife's 401K.
I'm getting tired again now...so I think it's time to wipe the counters down and drink some milk (why the hell is it that I never get heartburn unless I work 3rd). Finally, this weekend began an abortion diary marathon that I couldn't escape and then circumstances that effect my personal life grounds me again in where my focus (our focus) should be:
- Helping people get the tools they need to succeed
- Fighting for working families
- Expanding the middle class
- Allowing people to retire with dignity and security
AND
Leaving this world, this country, better than we found it
Something Republicans could think about once and a while OR normally just when the dividend check comes in.