[shutterbug]

Well it's quitting time and I'm decompressing for a few moments before I head out the door and onto the highway.

I find it funny that they were willing to hire someone without any journalism or much writing background for this job b/c I can't imagine having to be trained from scratch by these people! I was having a hard time getting my stories even written b/c my boss kept telling me to go do this and go do that and edit this and re-save that..."oh...you saved that picture as 'wrapping'...and it must be saved as 'wrap'!" Give me a freaking break! I'm editing page after page and yet I'm not allowed to save things to the system without asking someone what the name of the file has to be....and they just make it up too!" I dont' understand. Urggggggggg.

***breathing again***

Don't get me wrong....my boss really does seem to be a super sweet lady. She even bought me a Christmas present and made me a cheese ball. I just don't think she understands that they are so use to their own system, but it's gunna take a little repitition and such for me or anyone to learn "their" system of doing things. I mean, basically I got one day of training and then took over the position....which is fine, but I am human and they are just gunna hafta realize that for what they are paying they are damn lucky to have somebody with any experience at all...and what would they be doing if they were also having to teach someone how to be a journalist/writer at the same time?

I think the biggest thing (besides the stress) that got to me today was getting my check and after my expenses for gas to to get to work and stuff.....I'm getting less than what I got paid on unemployement when I was sleeping up to 20 hours a day!

It's so depressing........................................ .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ............................


And there was no hiding my frustration today....everyone knew...so who knows what they think of me already.

****lowers head and walks away feeling defeated****