Paper or plastic
I’ve been working in a grocery store for almost two weeks now. It’s close to where I live, they pay this forty year old man a decent wage by rural Wyoming standards and I love the people I work with. I see all my customers that I’ve helped in the gallery and they all have one question when they see me, “what are you doing here”?
I smile and tell them, “You know that recession we’re not having? Well, I’m not having it, so I’m working here.”
Tony’s still having people drop into the gallery and he’s been really supportive on my decision to return to work. It was quite and emotional thing for both of us. But all in all a great transition back into the ‘real’ world.
I’m sorry I haven’t written for a long time and have let my blog languish but this drama had been eating at my creativity for a while and y’all know what it’s like to have writer’s block. I’m still here and getting happy, I’m not through yet I don’t think.
Hugs everyone,
kb
March 6, 2008 at 4:31 am
*big hug*
And to answer your question… neither. I bring my own bags.
March 6, 2008 at 4:57 am
{{{hugs}}} from across the big pond. We use our own bags overhere…
March 6, 2008 at 10:50 am
Grocery store work was my very first job…in about 1978 for $2.90 per hour and $3.00 a month union dues. Keep on getting happy, my friend. 40 is a goodplace and time to start doing that. Giant hugs.
March 6, 2008 at 11:50 am
(((hugs)))
March 6, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Love ya, Wayne. I hope you’ll be able to shed the paper and plastic and work in the clay again soon!
March 6, 2008 at 11:04 pm
KAHNOTTY! You live!! I was worried about you, young man!! And I always take paper.
March 7, 2008 at 10:10 am
I add my hope that you can return to your creative endeavors soon.
I also use my own cloth bags. It’s nice to hear of so many others who do so. 3 out of 7 is a pretty high percentage.
I know knitting may not apply to grocery bags, but perhaps you could create some unique reusable grocery bags out of something and maybe the grocery store would let you sell them at the store.
March 7, 2008 at 11:57 am
This whole economy is messed up. As a small business owner, I feel your pain. Especially when I look at my operating credit line. Sometimes I think it would be a lot less grief and frustration to go back to Home Depot, work my shifts, get paid and go home. Then I give my head a shake and consider some other options. Stay strong & positive.
March 7, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Damn. It’s not right that you have to do this instead of your true work. I hope the economy turns around soon, so you can go back to what you love!
March 8, 2008 at 6:32 am
I love my grocery store boys! I find the importance of the grocery boys are incredible in the way I feel about the store and my day. The ladies at the checkout are all gloomy and non-communicating, the guys are always smiling and flirty to make sure their customers are happy with the service. So, even when you’re avoiding the recession, you are indeed making a huge difference in someone’s day! I appreciate people that make my day better!
Hopefully, this job still affords you time for the passion of art, as this also makes me happy. I’ve sat in the living room looking at my little collection of pottery more than once as a ethereal lifting of fog occurs in my head and a smile crosses my face. I think you’re making a much bigger dent in the world than you realize and I hope you continue to as we all appreciate your place in the world!
Hopefully, I will have an opportunity to visit the gallery upon my next visit out your way and have an opportunity to meet you and yours face to face. It shouldn’t be long before I make that trip back out again.
-C
March 8, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Supermarket work is hard work, but it still must be nice to be doing something different for awhile at least. Sometimes a change of pace works for the better. My first job in high school was at a local supermarket in New England. I made $2.75 per hour, which was ten cents above minimum wage back then.
I hope you got to vote in teh caucuses today!
March 8, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Hey you! Glad to hear you’re doing what you gotta do. I can so relate to tight money now that I’m off on maternity leave! Fortunately the government here gives me a year of unemployment (albeit at a rate of 50 percent of my craplicious pre baby wages)…
March 9, 2008 at 5:11 am
If you enjoy it, enjoy it! And drama always sucks the energy out, it’ll be back.
March 9, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Chin up. Bad times will pass. And thank you for supporting Obama yesterday
March 9, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Here in Washington, we have had a delayed bad economy. When housing was falling in most of the nation, it kept going up here all thru q3 last year, delaying the arrival of the unwanted guest named Mr. Reality, as people kept living extravagantly on “equity”. Now, in the past five months, it has turned south and suddenly the Bush Bubble Charge Card economy is starting to rapidly sour here, too.
Bush and his crime family have gambled to keep the bubble inflated until he leaves office so that the collapse happens after he has vanished with the silverware, allowing their spin machine to propagate the next lie that “Bush was a great steward of the Economy”. It appears that the collapse is happening sooner.
I have been radicalized politically like never before. I am a delegate now to the party convention pledged to Obama.
Thinking of you, wishing you what I wish for myself, and for all of us: peace, love, safety, comfort, hope, vision, and to be touched in such a way that you feel truly at one with the cosmos and feel yourself to truly be a part of everything and everyone. xox
March 10, 2008 at 7:53 am
I bring my own when I remember them. :}
March 10, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I’m glad you’re getting happy again Knotty. {{{HUG}}}
March 15, 2008 at 9:21 am
Great that you’re back and good news about the job. I enjoy working with the public and after the relationship ended it was helpful in keeping from thinking too much. If you enjoy the folks you work with, make the most of that, too.
Best of luck to you. I’ll be checking in again.