I will recap for those who don't know but I was laid off late March from my job of packing and shipping jewelry and handbags and accessories to over 35 stores across the country, had worked there 21 years but this plague shut that down quickly. I was called back 13 times since then to work on short projects, sometimes 3 days or 2 or 1, but that seems to have stopped for now too. Early August I took a part time job with the Center for Vision Loss as a driver and I really have taken to it, I feel that I make a difference in people's lives albeit only for a few hours while I am with them taking them back and forth to their appointments and they tell me there that before Covid hit they were busy everyday and that things will work themselves out which I take to mean I will get more work once we seem to be able to climb out of this mess. My wife has told me that she doesn't want me to quit that job even if I am called back to my old job full time, she says that I am happier and better suited to working with people and I agree, and has even told me to just work part time for awhile, we are doing okay money wise, things will pick up and I really appreciate that. I have tried to find work that I can do in addition to this driver job but it is hard to find work where I can name my own hours, and the hours for this job are all over the place, so that is tough. I know come Spring I can cut lawns for people like I had done years ago and some other things but heading into Winter that is out, but we are okay money wise but I feel strange about doing it but I don't want to quit it, I feel it is much more Covid resistant than the old job as I don't think people will be interested in buying that stuff much anymore from us, if they were they would be buying it online but they are not so I don't want to give up this job.
When I was working at my old job about a month ago the owner of the company told me that he was looking to try to reopen November 1st and "have you back here full time mid-November" and at first I was relieved that I wouldn't have to wonder and worry about it but about 4 seconds later I got sad thinking "that means I'd have to quit the driver's job" so that spoke volumes to me! But he can say whatever he wants, I stay in touch with a woman I worked with closely for 20 years there and neither she or I think reopening then is going to happen and if it does it will be very slowly, it won't be like switching on a light switch and being right back, and at times we don't even think that we're going to survive although they say at work "we won't close" but time will tell. But what it means is IF we do try to reopen I will be called about it, and I am already playing it out in my head how I am going to talk to the boss about seeing if I could somehow work at the driver's job and work around that schedule at my old job, and I expect it to go one of two ways; they will either be receptive of it since things have changed dramatically from this plague, realize that I worked with them through it, came in everytime that they called me in on short notice, am a good worker and frankly they would probably have a hard time finding someone who knows all that I know and will do what I did, so I think I have the leverage here. OR they will tell me "it's either us or them", forcing me to make a choice, and if that happens to be the case the answer will be "them", I really don't care if I go back there or not, it just isn't the same, and seeing how much more I like this new job I think "who wants to go back to that?", so we'll see when and if this conversation happens. But I am just going to be calm and lay it out to them how I feel and we will go from there. I just want to be prepared so when and if they call me I already have my "gameplan" of what to say, not that it catches me off guard and I stammer and stutter and make a dumb decision lol! But for now I work for the Vision Center, collect unemployment from the old job and if they call me in for a short project I go, but I hope they don't call for wahile since two people had Covid there about 10 days ago!
Just laying this out there, for some reason it makes me feel better by doing so! Feel free to comment on it...
When I was working at my old job about a month ago the owner of the company told me that he was looking to try to reopen November 1st and "have you back here full time mid-November" and at first I was relieved that I wouldn't have to wonder and worry about it but about 4 seconds later I got sad thinking "that means I'd have to quit the driver's job" so that spoke volumes to me! But he can say whatever he wants, I stay in touch with a woman I worked with closely for 20 years there and neither she or I think reopening then is going to happen and if it does it will be very slowly, it won't be like switching on a light switch and being right back, and at times we don't even think that we're going to survive although they say at work "we won't close" but time will tell. But what it means is IF we do try to reopen I will be called about it, and I am already playing it out in my head how I am going to talk to the boss about seeing if I could somehow work at the driver's job and work around that schedule at my old job, and I expect it to go one of two ways; they will either be receptive of it since things have changed dramatically from this plague, realize that I worked with them through it, came in everytime that they called me in on short notice, am a good worker and frankly they would probably have a hard time finding someone who knows all that I know and will do what I did, so I think I have the leverage here. OR they will tell me "it's either us or them", forcing me to make a choice, and if that happens to be the case the answer will be "them", I really don't care if I go back there or not, it just isn't the same, and seeing how much more I like this new job I think "who wants to go back to that?", so we'll see when and if this conversation happens. But I am just going to be calm and lay it out to them how I feel and we will go from there. I just want to be prepared so when and if they call me I already have my "gameplan" of what to say, not that it catches me off guard and I stammer and stutter and make a dumb decision lol! But for now I work for the Vision Center, collect unemployment from the old job and if they call me in for a short project I go, but I hope they don't call for wahile since two people had Covid there about 10 days ago!
Just laying this out there, for some reason it makes me feel better by doing so! Feel free to comment on it...