… a chain one, at that, and asks if they’re taking applications. The woman she asks looks like the woman in charge, as she’d hoped, and she hands the ex-lawyer an application, asking her what she’s looking for. She says, straightforwardly, that she’d take stock or cashier, that she’s a burned-out lawyer looking to just work with books, and the woman-in-charge nods and asks her to fill out the application “as soon as you can.”
She sits in the cafe, she fills out the application, she hunts down the woman-in-charge and hands the application over herself so she can shake hands, make introductions, explain that she does in fact have retail experience in the form of waitressing and other jobs that introduced her to the fine art of cash-registers. They talk, the woman-in-charge looks through the job application, and asks the ex-lawyer to come back on Thursday at 5:30 for an interview.
Who knows. It’ll get me out of the house, and I would be working with books. (Plus two lovely words, Employee Discount.)
Called shrink? Check. Applied for job? Double check. Answered phone? Triple check. I’ll be opening mail any day now.
I worked at B&N for a while. I loved it–it was my favorite job evah. Good luck to you.
Good luck Erika. Just take it slowly — one little thing at a time.
love ya
I would quite enjoy working in a bookstore. Here’s hoping they have a good discount! Or lots of free time so you can read books during your shift. Or both!
This is soo cool! I feel like I should be doing one of Angela’s SQUEEEEEEEE’s right now. (except she doesn’t do that)
Good luck! *waggles eyebrows* (she does do that though) You’ll have to excuse my sense of humor — I should really be in bed already. G’night.
Checking things off the list? Check. Good for you.
Last time I worked retail, people kept asking me why I wasn’t shopping at that store, why I wasn’t decked in the goods I was selling (fine jewelry, and I was the only woman in the dept without a diamond, marital or otherwise). Very hard not to give in with the glittery rocks; a bookstore? I’d be in so much trouble…
Good luck indeed!
I didn’t get hired a few months ago at a bookstore…for book week.
Excellent news indeed Erika, I hope the interview went well and since I am sure that it did I must wish you well on your new job. I will say that you’re a better person than I am (no surprise there), as I don’t know if working in a book store would ever be a plausible option for me. Unless the pay was exceptionally good or the discount quite deep I simply couldn’t afford it — I’d spend far too much of my income on books. Perhaps if they could be persuaded to come to some sort of compensation in kind arrangement it would work, but how would one survive on payment in Proust?
Checking off the list is always something to be proud of, at least imo since it’s sometimes the only way I can tell if I’ve made any headway at all. Still, talking to the shrink is good, work is very good, answering the phone is especially good. That said I must admit that I too detest mail, in fact I eschew even retrieving the post until it chokes the box and the mailman has to come to the door witha flat full of the stuff. So when you cross that off your list would you do me the favor of taking a look at mine? I’d start recycling the lot into fire starters tomorrow but I’m told there could be something important in there somewhere.
All the best,
Robert
Hope the interview went well. Sounds like a great thing for you to be working with books. Wishing you the best.
hope everything works out
Love and goodness to you my friend. It is hard, but you are making moves. Pretty impressive from where I read.