Update on my job hunt so far

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A month ago, I trained for a week at my local high school on being a food service assistant. Yes, it was fast-paced in more ways than one. Fast to serve food to the students on the fines, fast to wash dishes and place them on the cart, and fast to send dishes and utensils through the dishwashing machine. Though the people was nice and helpful, I’ve thought I did pretty good the best I could. And even though I did get paid for it last weekend via mail, I’ve found out why I haven’t heard back from the school as a substitute from my supervisor via phone and email a little over a week ago. It was too fast-paced for me. When I asked for specifics feedback, it was more negative than positive like I was too slow washing dishes and serving the wrong meals (I dispute that remark), when I mainly washed dishes and only served twice. And it was only based on that Thursday’s training session. The only positive feedback I got from them was that everyone said I was “nice” and that the kitchen manager wanted staff to have little direction. Yes it did hurt me and cut me to the quick. I’ve emailed my father and texted my brother on the latest. While I plan to learn from my mistakes, if I do get called in to sub in for the two middle schools and six elementary schools in the district, I plan to do better and redeem myself. If I don’t get hired or land other sub jobs by the end of the school year, I wouldn’t be too upset about it. I would find something else. Maybe it wasn’t a good fit for me, though I’ve gotten a taste of it for experience and some pay. So I’m not discounting those schools out yet and hope to get a call between now and Christmas to get me in at least or twice if possible. Since I found out from my landlady last week that next summer’s rent would be high: $750 +30 for pet fee (if Wylie’s still around) and $22 for utilities. It’ll be over $800 as I expected, though I wasn’t planning to stay another year here and move to another apartment… my dream apartment or downsize to a studio or another place in the area. So I’m reverting to Plan B and C. Plan B is to find my niche that might be a good fit for me. I’ve set up an in-house pet sitting service for my apartment last week and plan to do the apartment next door. I’ve also applied to three paid book reviews companies—though I’m waiting for approving on two, I got accepted on one yesterday and got started right away. I’m still sticking with Swagbucks, Inbox Dollars, CrowdTap, Mylot,Checkout 51, to earn some money on the side along with Upwork. That two-week assignment was for Amazon MTurk when I had to complete 1000 HITs on providing short reviews on sports apparel like for Nike and the NFL. It paid $150. And I’ve applied to another job, which is providing updated rental listings for a Wisconsin rental company on Facebook Marketplace. It’s only 1 hour a day, 5 hours a week, and I bid $17.50 for this 3-6 month job. As for Plan C, by encouragement from my father and church friend, I’m going to do a short seasonal job hunt this week only by applying and re-applying to places for seasonal and regular work—around 25 places. My resume would be tweaked and updated a tiny bit. I would be hitting those places that I didn’t have a chance to apply or interview before I’ve gotten the job in September. Color Me mIne at the local mall didn’t have an opening in September, but they do now for a seasonal cashier. They’ve contacted me last week. And I’m waiting to hear back from my bus company on what hours it runs for nights/weekends, so I can provide that availability for those jobs. Though I’ve struck out with two places downtown, I’m still waiting to hear back from the art supply store that’s next to the art framing studio. It’s supposed to be opened by now, but they had electrical wiring setbacks when I visited the store two weeks ago after church. They’ll contact me when it’s open. So I’m keeping that open for the future. That’s the story from here. Sorry so long with this update. If anything happens between now and Thanksgiving, I’ll let you know. I’ll check in again this evening.