Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Summer Job Revisited

Once again I am scrubbing and waxing floors for my summer job.  I like my summer job in spite of the fact that it is extremely hard work. I don't need the sympathy of people who say five or six or maybe nine or ten times, "I'm sorry" when they hear I am scrubbing and waxing floors again. 

My job has its advantages.
1) I can start whenever I wish.  Three days so far I have started about 4 AM to beat the heat. 
2) I can quit whenever I wish.  If I want to go home at 10:30, so what.  If I stay until 2, who cares.
3) I don't have to tell anyone when I am going to be there and when I am not going to be there.  Now, there may be a few exceptions since they depend on me to have the door unlocked if the plumber is coming to do some repairs or the UPS truck is bringing scads of boxes filled with textbooks for next year.
 4) I can take a break (even a nap) whenever I wish and don't have to keep track of the time.

I like my summer job because it allows me a freedom in my schedule that few jobs allow.  My only requirement is that I get the job done before school cleaning begins in August.  That takes about 100 hours sometime in July.  So far this year we have about 65 hours on the job. (Mary took two vacation days to help me get a jump start on the job.) I should be able to finish next week.

2 comments:

Landisplatz said...

How many calories can you burn when you do an all-nighter? Congratulations on the accomplishment!
Good job!
Betty Ann

Gray Lane said...

It was just over 2100 for the day Monday and 3000 for Tuesday. I'm not sure how many of them were during the night and how many during the day, but it was a lot of calories.