The World of Work
I've officially started both jobs for the summer already. My volunteering with Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE), in downtown Toledo, is going to be a great experience. Sadly it doesn't pay, so I have to keep a real job, which means I can't be at ABLE as much as I would like. The first day I was in WAY over my head, but I rolled with the punches. I still don't know if the guy was testing me to see what level I was at, or if he really needed this stuff down. My first tasks were something along the lines of, we have this class action suit, dig through this box and find this letter, and then draft a letter similar to the City of Toledo Police Department. I was like WHAT? They don't teach us how to write letters to police departments in college. Then I sat in on a meeting with one of his clients, and it really seemed like a doctors appointment. I could already tell how difficult explaining complicated legal procedures, ones that I could barely understand, to someone with barely any education and multiple mental disorders can be.
The other days I have been working at the Toledo Zoo. I've worked there before years ago, so I either get asked, "Are you new?", or I get a "Oh hey, you're back!" It's a fun job, repetitive and tiring, but a job none the less. There is a summer concert series and I have to work the first one this coming Friday...a 10 and a half hour day. It's funny because I come home and complain, and then I realize, oh, Dad has been pulling ten hour days almost all his life, I should probably quit whining and realize hey sister, this is what the world of work is like.
On top of it all, I have yet to completely unpack from school, but I'm not sure that will ever happen this summer.
May 17, 2008 3:00 PM
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