My “Job” — Photo by Marten Bjork on Unsplash

It’s funny, truly it’s funny.

For the past 4 years, I had repeated the same familiar cycle that has not been a stranger to me every time I had encountered it. Every summer for the past 3 years in Late May-Early June, I would do my research for places near my area where I could potentially be able to work there for summer, and may once school started back up I would still work part-time.

I had my fair share of filling out applications to work at a local Key Food.

In 2019, I was done with my sophomore year and felt eligible enough to start working in a real job, as opposed to having been a Counselor In Training a couple of years prior.

Unfortunately, It didn’t work out, so I ended up doing basically nothing all summer, just counting the days until school started again.

In 2020, we all know that things were impossible to work around, but that did not stop me from trying to score a job somewhere.

Again, it didn’t work in my favor, but I was offered a job as a security guard in a camp, which I would have to say was probably the worst pay I had ever received from any sort of job I had worked in.

I did at least make a few new friends in the process, which was a bigger takeaway from my experience there rather than the “pay”.

In 2021, I graduated high school and felt as if that was the year. I got out of that prison fortress of a place, and things would finally start going my way.

Unfortunately, to no one's surprise; things did not work out for the third time, and I was left with pretty much nothing to do for the whole summer.

Funny enough, in mid-August, when camps were at the home stretch of their final couple of weeks, my old boss contacted me and asked if I would be able to fill in a substitute security guard for the actual security guard that ended early.

Against my better judgment, I pretty much seized the opportunity without thinking long and hard about it, and also because I was kind of forced to by my parents after being home that whole summer.

Even though I worked for only a week, I was paid handsomely, which was a surprise considering how awful the pay was the prior summer.

Now we are in 2022, and I am feeling very hopeful for this year.

I developed a resume that I had made copies of to give to people that I could potentially work for, I am much more confident in myself to have an interview with someone if I need to.

I even had a potential job offer that reached out to me that I wasn’t able to meet at a mutual two-way street because of the hours I wouldn’t be able to work.

Still, I am getting people calling me back, which is something that has not happened to me before, which is why I am extremely hopeful for this year.

Writing is another job that I consider myself to be employed in, even though it is non-profit now, I am trying hard to make it top-notch and high quality to turn that around.

If any of you readers are looking for jobs yourselves this summer, I wish you the best of luck!

My “Job”