first day jitters

I started my new job tonight. I worked for five hours, and it felt like 25. I am not used to being in such a slow-paced environment. It isn't a horrible job, though, so I am going to stick it out for now, and hope that things get better. I imagine that they will. I have to go to TRU tomorrow to demo those rubberband bracelet making things, so that should be fun. I am scheduled for an 8 hour shift, though, and the demo is only two hours, so I am a little bit worried about what exactly I am going to have to do for the other six hours. I rang register tonight for a little while but I am terrified of it, to be honest, so I hope it is not that.

Enough about that.

I went down to Opryland headquarters this morning to interview for a position downtown at a place called the Wildhorse Saloon. That interview went well, so she sent me downtown to the Wildhorse to talk to some people there. Things were going really awesomely until we started talking about availability and I mentioned that I was starting a job at BRU tonight. That threw up a lot of red flags, and from a retail standpoint I absolutely get it, but it was still discouraging, especially because they all seemed to like me before that.

There was some talk about trying to work things out so that I could still do both. I talked to my manager at BRU tonight and he is willing to work with me, so hopefully things pan out. I really, really wanted the job at WS after I walked out of there, but I got less excited about it as the day went on. I really think that I am just trying to keep my hopes from getting out of control incase this doesn't pan out. The idea of quitting BRU so that I could work there also crossed my mind, but I don't know what kind of package they offer (we never got that far into the conversation) and I don't want to run the risk of losing my benefits now that I have them.

I still have the substitute teaching thing to fall back on if that doesn't work out, provided I take the test. Right now it doesn't make much sense to me to spend 40 dollars to take the test if I am never going to be available to work. I dunno. I guess I will just wait and see what happens with this.

I also have an interview scheduled for Monday at Target. I think my manager at BRU wants me to work Monday, so we will see how that works out.

I guess I will have to wait to see when the right path makes itself clear to me.