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Wow, good news--kiddo got the job he interviewed for today!! It's a courier-type job for a lab company (you know--lab tests and such). They apparently liked the fact that he had his EMT certification AND liked his short-lived volunteer stint with the Red Cross.
Go figure! Apparently it WAS to be a "temporary" type job, but he was told they hope to get him through the background check and get him hired as a regular employee ASAP.
The pay and hours are good, better than the job he was just let go from. I talked to his Dad, not him, and he wasn't sure about benefits and stuff, but geeze, the kid needed a JOB. If he's working and mostly self-supporting, then it's a lot less annoying to be helping out with stuff like insurance for a little while longer.
Now, my current crisis is the slow drip through my ceiling that has rotted out a large section of the area. After the third visit from a plumber, it turns out my icemaker water supply line was leaking. Ticks me off--first plumber said he pulled out the fridge and it was dry. Nope, floor was SOAKED and it's apparently been leaking for weeks, if not months. I tried to tighten the connection, put on some teflon tape underneath, but it's still leaking. I turned off the icemaker water supply (and I LOVE my icemaker--fortunately I have a bag of emergency ice in the freezer), but fixing the floor/ceiling is gonna be an expensive proposition. Always something...
But what the heck. I've got an employed kid. And AA friends who are carpenters and painters.
Life is good.
Go figure! Apparently it WAS to be a "temporary" type job, but he was told they hope to get him through the background check and get him hired as a regular employee ASAP.
The pay and hours are good, better than the job he was just let go from. I talked to his Dad, not him, and he wasn't sure about benefits and stuff, but geeze, the kid needed a JOB. If he's working and mostly self-supporting, then it's a lot less annoying to be helping out with stuff like insurance for a little while longer.
Now, my current crisis is the slow drip through my ceiling that has rotted out a large section of the area. After the third visit from a plumber, it turns out my icemaker water supply line was leaking. Ticks me off--first plumber said he pulled out the fridge and it was dry. Nope, floor was SOAKED and it's apparently been leaking for weeks, if not months. I tried to tighten the connection, put on some teflon tape underneath, but it's still leaking. I turned off the icemaker water supply (and I LOVE my icemaker--fortunately I have a bag of emergency ice in the freezer), but fixing the floor/ceiling is gonna be an expensive proposition. Always something...
But what the heck. I've got an employed kid. And AA friends who are carpenters and painters.
Life is good.
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