Hands down, the thing that felt the most stable about my life when I wrote the prior entry was my employment at CGA. What'd those ******** do? They terminated me. Yep. An associate finally went over the 5-hour mark on my watch and apparently while others can get away with modifying TAS records, I could not. Got suspended and put under investigation for like a month. Then when I knew I was already screwed anyhow, I whistle-blew on the Rides Department to HR that all supes had been faking their 15-minute breaks under pressure from upper management and supplied every instance in which I had during the 2016 season. Immediate Step 4: Termination. From literal scratch because I'd never even incurred a single infraction prior to that. Devastated, insulted, insensed... I felt it all. Plus I was unemployed for the next... oh, three months.
Fast-forward to now and I can say I've undertaken seven– yes, SEVEN– separate jobs. Allow me to enumerate them for the sake of hilarity: California's Great America (Rides Supervisor), Cavalia's Odysseo (Local Staff Box Office), Pirates of Emerson (Scare Actor), Garden City's Casino M8trix (Chip Runner), San Jose Sharks Foundation (50/50 Raffle Ticket Seller), Dave & Busters (Mascot), and Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (Rides Operator).
The latter I'm just getting started with. I have training Sunday. I am hoping it's the job that clicks and I can stick with for awhile. stare Odysseo was obviously just a gig while the "Canadian Circus" was in town. Similiarly, PoE set up for Sept/Oct and then tore down. M8trix was a cesspool of assholes, a transphobic general manager, and awful graveyard shift hours. SAP Center has been good actually and I'm still with them (the $15/hr. is certainly nice and I like the big stadium). D&B can also go suck a d**k, because they were literally scheduling me three hours a week when I was promised a full-time gig upon my hire. So yeah. I've had just a liiittle bit of trouble getting my feet back under me.
Let's mention that Neil guy too. He stuck with the HR Trainer thing through HAUNT, also did HAUNT and they gave him Cornstalkers back (for the record, he wants to try and swing returning for 2017 too because it'll be Cornstalker's 10th anniversary). Then he went all "fuq GA" and got a position at Costco (so many shopping cart jokes...), but those dickbags laid him off without warning just after the start of the new year. Spent a good while angsting and pacing, and ultimately acquired the job I recommended he apply for– as a Schwan's Route Sales Rep. He went through four rounds of interviews, then four grueling weeks of training up in Redding of all places, and he's been assigned his route here at the local depot. Long hours but good pay; salaried, about $50k a year, plus a neat $2500 sign-on bonus. Super proud of him. heart
The job acquisition also allowed him to purchase him dream bike, which he'd originally thought would be a Harley-Davidson Road King, but learned was actually an Indian Springfield. Meanwhile, I bought his 2013 Yamaha V-Star Custom off him.
Look how shiny:
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So yeah, coincidentally I took a course on how to ride a motorcycle and got my M1 last month. xd Now Neil and I have been using our weekends to go out and about on trips as I gain skill and confidence. Wish it would hurry up and warm up and be summer already! Also made a California quilt to document our "adventures".
Things are going pretty good between us. I feel this is a statement I should acknowledge because it became a rocky thing around October. At first things seemed hunky-dory; we were having bangin' sex (sort of) and I got to meet his sister and brother-in-law and s**t, and then idk what happened but he said he might be moving out and I flipped my s**t and things got worse before they got better, and it really was almost like a 180° kind of better because I was about ready to dump his a**, rather than the vice versa with how shitty he was being towards me. But we had a talk (several, but one in particular switched something in his brain) and he entrusted me with some info that he'd never revealed to anyone else ever, and for once I kept my yap shut and kept that s**t secret cuz I'd ******** up a different time and damaged our relationship and I was so thankful he gave me a second chance.
Anyway, drama aside, we passed our one-year cohabiversary without so much as a ripple, and there've been talks about buying a house together, so um, this is starting to sound like a pretty permanent arrangement.
Mind, he needs to eventually go back to school. It's one of those things he's talked about every year for several years, and it remains to be seen if this'll be the year either. Really depends, I think, on if he gets promoted to Trainer at Schwan's, because doing so would open up his schedule... in theory. And then I, growing increasingly frustrated by s**t-tier employment, decided to attend an info session for San Jose State's MBA program with my mom cuz I figured it couldn't hurt to look, but the deal was really sealed imo when my dad offered to pay for my enrollment. That was when I hit the ground running, studied for and took the GRE, submitted my application/transcripts/etc. and yeah; I just got word today I'd been accepted.
So it's just possible by 2020 I won't have a s**t-tier job anymore and might actually be an importantish manager-type fella here in Silicon Valley. I honestly doubted I'd ever return to school. Always acknowledged the possibility existed, thought having an advanced degree would be "cool", but didn't sit around dwelling on it. Then I get fired for total BS, ping-pong around the Entertainment Industry, and decide "You know what? ******** it." Most likely it won't be fun, but going the part-time track it's only one course every 6–8 weeks. I think I should be able to handle that. Guess we'll see.
Yeesh, you'd think I was done, but nope. Because in all of this I haven't even mentioned a single transgender-related thing.
Mind you, that's the way this is all supposed to play out in the end. You get to a point where you're done "transitioning" and you've transitioned and you live your damn life. I was basically to that point, except my menstrual cycle started back up in November scream so now I'm saving for– you guessed it!– a hysterectomy. Whoopee. Anyhow, my voice did drop; it's rad. Hair growth has been pathetic, but whatever. rolleyes And my entire family has been using male pronouns and my name since 2016 Xmas! eek
Someone who's getting added to the family is Shawna Berkeland, cuz my bro proposed.
I WANNA PROPOSE.
But maybe I will, this November. Or not. sweatdrop I really don't know.
Okay, let's call that quits. xd Catch ya in another year or so!
(Gaia brought zOMG back!)
