Thursday, August 16, 2007
Pushin Carts at the Library of Congress
A few weeks back, I put my resume and information on CareerBuilder to aid in my job search. Initially, it didn't really help all that much, and jobs I wanted seemed like a dubious prospect. Although, interestingly, a job actually came to me. A placement agency called PeopleCom contacted me because the Library of Congress was in need of people for A/V work. I wasn't really all that interested at first, as I really didn't like the idea of a commute to DC, and I wanted to remain within art. However, in the "real world", one doesn't always get to do what one wants. And with a low bank balance looming overhead, I decided to take the job, for no other reason than to keep from going completely broke.The commute is probably the most agravating aspect of the job. The job itself isn't so bad, but damn, the commute! Starting out, I've been coming in at 7am, which is absolutely horrid when you realize that I have to get up around 4am to have enough time to get up, have breakfast, drive to the edge of the neighborhood, park, walk over to Penn Station, take the 5:35am MARC Train to Union Station, and walk from Union to the Madison building where I arrive just shy of 7am.
It sucks.
I figure the commute takes up to 4 hours out of my day. Today especially sucked coming home. The 45 minute ride took closer to an hour and a half. Weather perhaps? All I know is that I nearly freaked out. I didn't recognize where we were, and I thought I had slept through the Penn Station stop. Nope. Just traveling very slowly.
Like I said, the job isn't so bad. It's not that much different from what I did when I worked at A/V Services at UMBC. Different place, different people, more responsibilities, and twice the pay. It's not a whole lot different, and my only complaint is that I don't have downtime like I did at UMBC A/V. When I'm not pushing carts, I'm on the part of the job that they didn't tell me about, Helpline. No one told me that when not busy I would be playing operator. I'm a little miffed, because it means I have to learn two sets of responsibilities and I'm probably being paid the same as the ones that only have one set to learn. Although, in the end, I think I got the better deal, I get out from behind the desk. They don't. And the one thing I learned very well from working at the Country Club, is that time flies when you're busy, especially when you're busy on your feet.
So in a nutshell, my job is to push carts and to answer the ITS Helpline.
That's about all I really have the energy I have to say right now. I have to be up tomorrow sometime between 4 and 4:30am, and ridiculous as it may sound, it's already past my bedtime.
Labels: a/v
posted by Aaron Clark at 8:53 PM
3 Comments:
woo woo cart pusher. Gotta love it.
or not.
August 17, 2007 2:00 AM
Could Be Worse. You could be flipping burgers in the ghetto.
August 17, 2007 10:12 AM
Its also better then trying to get your own business off the ground and struggling your ass off to prove your better then shit companies like for example; "New Horizons".
August 18, 2007 5:41 PM
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