Saturday, July 18
Monday, July 6
I Need Some Help!
So I need some help..
I'm entering a photo contest at a local fair. I have a lot of pictures that I like, but I can only enter like 4 or 5.
So........ here are a bunch of pictures. I would like if you could comment on them and tell me which ones you prefer and why. If you could that is.
I'm entering a photo contest at a local fair. I have a lot of pictures that I like, but I can only enter like 4 or 5.
So........ here are a bunch of pictures. I would like if you could comment on them and tell me which ones you prefer and why. If you could that is.
Saturday, June 13
My So Called Life...
I don't really fell like writing tonight, but I bugged April to update so I figured I should too.
I'm still working 3rd shift at Mead. We've been on 10 hour days for 5 weeks now. Needless to say, I'm burning out. My day consists of... Leaving for work at 8:10pm, working until 7am, getting home at 7:45am, sleeping until 3:30pm, and doing school work until I leave again. It is just getting really tiring very quickly!
Unfortunately, my adjuster's mom died on Thursday morning. I feel so bad for him, but we are now working 8 hours for a couple of days. We can't work in my department without an adjuster present. So, I've been going in at the normal time now, 11pm, and we've been handpacking for 4 hours. Another adjuster, who is on 1st shift, comes it at 3am. We then go over to our department and work like normal. It's a sappy moment. (An adjuster is the person that runs the machine. He does all the maintenance and adjusting, hence the name!)
I kind of explain what I've been doing: I work in a department called HS1. I'm not sure what it stands for, but that's the name. We have a 4 man crew consisting of three laborers and an adjuster. The three laborers are Elycia (another college student), Michelle, and I. We rotate between three different stations throughout the night. We do different project depending on what is "hot". Currently, we are working on manila drawing pads that are 12x18. We have two people at the beginning of the machine by a convayer belt. They separate the manila and feed them into the convayer belt, which is usually moving at a high rate of speed. The third person is at the end of belt catching the newly packaged drawing pads, putting them in boxes, and putting them through the taping machine.
Handpacking is something completely different and a hundred times more boring. Handpacking is basically fixing stuff that other people messed up. Friday we took 8 five subject notebooks out of boxes, reordered them, put 12 in another box, put it through a tape machine, and stacked it on a skid. I know! It is so exciting, and I got to do it for four hours!
Well, it is 10:30pm, and my sleep is so messed up. I'm so tired all the time! I'm going to bed.
I'm still working 3rd shift at Mead. We've been on 10 hour days for 5 weeks now. Needless to say, I'm burning out. My day consists of... Leaving for work at 8:10pm, working until 7am, getting home at 7:45am, sleeping until 3:30pm, and doing school work until I leave again. It is just getting really tiring very quickly!
Unfortunately, my adjuster's mom died on Thursday morning. I feel so bad for him, but we are now working 8 hours for a couple of days. We can't work in my department without an adjuster present. So, I've been going in at the normal time now, 11pm, and we've been handpacking for 4 hours. Another adjuster, who is on 1st shift, comes it at 3am. We then go over to our department and work like normal. It's a sappy moment. (An adjuster is the person that runs the machine. He does all the maintenance and adjusting, hence the name!)
I kind of explain what I've been doing: I work in a department called HS1. I'm not sure what it stands for, but that's the name. We have a 4 man crew consisting of three laborers and an adjuster. The three laborers are Elycia (another college student), Michelle, and I. We rotate between three different stations throughout the night. We do different project depending on what is "hot". Currently, we are working on manila drawing pads that are 12x18. We have two people at the beginning of the machine by a convayer belt. They separate the manila and feed them into the convayer belt, which is usually moving at a high rate of speed. The third person is at the end of belt catching the newly packaged drawing pads, putting them in boxes, and putting them through the taping machine.
Handpacking is something completely different and a hundred times more boring. Handpacking is basically fixing stuff that other people messed up. Friday we took 8 five subject notebooks out of boxes, reordered them, put 12 in another box, put it through a tape machine, and stacked it on a skid. I know! It is so exciting, and I got to do it for four hours!
Well, it is 10:30pm, and my sleep is so messed up. I'm so tired all the time! I'm going to bed.
Friday, June 5
Nocturnal
Well as some of you have heard.. I'm officially nocturnal.. Sunday night (which is my Monday) was my first day on night shift.. or is that my first night and morning on night shift.. anyway it was the first time I worked 9pm-7am..
I'm not completely opposed to working nights.. it is kind of weird to get out of bed at 4pm though.. I'm kinda of sick of 10 hour days though.. I wish it were just 8 hours.. but of course we have to get everything done at the same time and it all has to be done by next weekend.. figures.. I tell you what.. at Mead when it rains it pours!
Well it's almost 9:30 and I have to get ready for work.. yes it is my Saturday and I have to work.. fun fun fun! ugh.. I didn't know I sold my soul to Mead..
I'm not completely opposed to working nights.. it is kind of weird to get out of bed at 4pm though.. I'm kinda of sick of 10 hour days though.. I wish it were just 8 hours.. but of course we have to get everything done at the same time and it all has to be done by next weekend.. figures.. I tell you what.. at Mead when it rains it pours!
Well it's almost 9:30 and I have to get ready for work.. yes it is my Saturday and I have to work.. fun fun fun! ugh.. I didn't know I sold my soul to Mead..
Monday, May 18
Working Girl..
Well, I officially began my job today. I was really nervous when I drove there today.. well I was either nervous or sleep deprived haha.. I had to get up at 5am.. eww..
Anyway, when I got to the plant I had to wait for my supervisor to take me out to the floor. So, the HR department called her and she said, "I'll be right there." So, I wait and I wait and I wait. The shift started at 7am and by the time I was done waiting it was quarter til 8. I got to know the HR ladies pretty well haha..
So, my supervisor takes me out to the floor and introduces me to all the ladies working in the department. On the particular machine I was helping with there were 7 ladies. Don't ask me their names because I can't remember haha.
My supervisor puts me with a woman named Patti, and she shows me how to do the different stations. There were five different stations to work. The first one was taking the label of the five star note book (you know the one that is hooked in the spiral part) and flip it to the back of the notebook. Then stack them on the appropriate table. The next stage was folding cardboad trays to stack the five star note books in. Also at this station you have to put the trays in a conveyer belt. The third station was stacking said notebooks into said trays on said conveyer belt lol. Two of the station do this because there are two different kinds of notebooks. One is the bold colors (red, black blue) and the other is the bright colors (light blue, purple, red). When the books are on conveyer belt they go through a shrink wrap machine. At the last station, the person there catches the shrink wrapped notebooks and puts them in display boxes.
I know I know.. how can I handle such excitment and complex doings. It will take me MONTHS to catch on! haha.. WRONG! A monkey could do this job, but you know what I'm getting paid 12.57 an hour to do monkey's work, and I'm happy with it.
Tonight my feet ache, I'm covered in scratches, and my hands are all dry. I'm sure it will get worse, and I'll probably have man hands when I'm finished haha. But again I'm getting paid! haha
It all starts again tomorrow at 5am. Pray for me that I continue to like it!
Anyway, when I got to the plant I had to wait for my supervisor to take me out to the floor. So, the HR department called her and she said, "I'll be right there." So, I wait and I wait and I wait. The shift started at 7am and by the time I was done waiting it was quarter til 8. I got to know the HR ladies pretty well haha..
So, my supervisor takes me out to the floor and introduces me to all the ladies working in the department. On the particular machine I was helping with there were 7 ladies. Don't ask me their names because I can't remember haha.
My supervisor puts me with a woman named Patti, and she shows me how to do the different stations. There were five different stations to work. The first one was taking the label of the five star note book (you know the one that is hooked in the spiral part) and flip it to the back of the notebook. Then stack them on the appropriate table. The next stage was folding cardboad trays to stack the five star note books in. Also at this station you have to put the trays in a conveyer belt. The third station was stacking said notebooks into said trays on said conveyer belt lol. Two of the station do this because there are two different kinds of notebooks. One is the bold colors (red, black blue) and the other is the bright colors (light blue, purple, red). When the books are on conveyer belt they go through a shrink wrap machine. At the last station, the person there catches the shrink wrapped notebooks and puts them in display boxes.
I know I know.. how can I handle such excitment and complex doings. It will take me MONTHS to catch on! haha.. WRONG! A monkey could do this job, but you know what I'm getting paid 12.57 an hour to do monkey's work, and I'm happy with it.
Tonight my feet ache, I'm covered in scratches, and my hands are all dry. I'm sure it will get worse, and I'll probably have man hands when I'm finished haha. But again I'm getting paid! haha
It all starts again tomorrow at 5am. Pray for me that I continue to like it!
Saturday, May 16
Update.. take two..
Well I figure it is time for another update. I've really become very horrible at writing lol
Anyway, I've been home for more than two weeks and I'm just now starting to work. Monday is my first day FINALLY! I so need the money haha. My job is at Mead Westvaco in Alexandria. It's a factory that makes Mead products (folders, paper etc.). I'm going to be in the finishing department, which is like special orders and such. It doesn't sound really fun, but at least it's a job!
Monday also start summer classes for me. I'm taking two classes from May 18 to June 25 and then one more from June 31 to the end of July. I'm sort of stressing already about the first two classes. I just read the syllabuses and the courses have a lot of work involved. Since I'm working full time plus overtime, I think it's going to be a lot to do. But I'm just going to suck it up and go to work, sleep, read and repeat because I WILL graduate in the spring lol.
I went to Geneva College's graduation today. It sort of made me sad because that is where I started school, but I'm not graduating this year. I suppose that's what happens when you switch majors and colleges a bunch of times. Oh well, it's only a year late.
That brings me to my next update. I've decided to go to grad school. I really want to take the CPA exams when I'm finished with school, and I'm afraid if I try this with only the education from Mansfield, I won't be very prepared. So, I looked around for a college that has a master's in accounting. I found West Virgina's site, and it looks like that is the place. Their program is focused on the CPA exams, and it only takes a year and a summer. That means in the fall of 2010 I'll be moving to West Virgina. I've already been looking for apartments (I'm a little bit like my mom in the respect haha). I've found some really nice places. Being a college town, Morgantown has a lot of apartment complexes.
Well that's about it for now. If you all could pray for my family that would be awesome. There's some "junk" that's going on (more on that subject later).
Have a good night/day!
Anyway, I've been home for more than two weeks and I'm just now starting to work. Monday is my first day FINALLY! I so need the money haha. My job is at Mead Westvaco in Alexandria. It's a factory that makes Mead products (folders, paper etc.). I'm going to be in the finishing department, which is like special orders and such. It doesn't sound really fun, but at least it's a job!
Monday also start summer classes for me. I'm taking two classes from May 18 to June 25 and then one more from June 31 to the end of July. I'm sort of stressing already about the first two classes. I just read the syllabuses and the courses have a lot of work involved. Since I'm working full time plus overtime, I think it's going to be a lot to do. But I'm just going to suck it up and go to work, sleep, read and repeat because I WILL graduate in the spring lol.
I went to Geneva College's graduation today. It sort of made me sad because that is where I started school, but I'm not graduating this year. I suppose that's what happens when you switch majors and colleges a bunch of times. Oh well, it's only a year late.
That brings me to my next update. I've decided to go to grad school. I really want to take the CPA exams when I'm finished with school, and I'm afraid if I try this with only the education from Mansfield, I won't be very prepared. So, I looked around for a college that has a master's in accounting. I found West Virgina's site, and it looks like that is the place. Their program is focused on the CPA exams, and it only takes a year and a summer. That means in the fall of 2010 I'll be moving to West Virgina. I've already been looking for apartments (I'm a little bit like my mom in the respect haha). I've found some really nice places. Being a college town, Morgantown has a lot of apartment complexes.
Well that's about it for now. If you all could pray for my family that would be awesome. There's some "junk" that's going on (more on that subject later).
Have a good night/day!
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