Like many college students, I came home from college hoping to get a summer job. I searched a bit, eyeing a retail job at the nearby bookstore and a part-time library aide position at my local library. As you can tell, I was anxious to work with books. I was also not anxious to involve myself in high-stress work environment. While I had heard all the negativity surrounding job searching experiences, I was like whatever, it can't be that hard.
Well, after finally getting rejected from both positions previously referenced, I realize, it's not that it's hard. It's that you start to realize how under-qualified you are. It's dejecting and makes it hard to remember what might make you a valuable employee to any other hiring employers. You also start to realize that before you can even start paying your dues in your pre-career background employment for whatever career you're aiming for, you have to work in a job that is more waiting than forward-moving. Dr. Seuss warned us about the waiting room in Oh, the Places You'll Go. It's happening. I'm there. Waiting.
Therefore, tomorrow I'll be hoofing it to a small hardware store in my neighborhood and seeing the manager at CVS to apply for work I know I'll dread everyday on my way there. It sounds like the beginning of a summer contemporary novel by Sarah Dessen. In fact, I think I've read it.

Ivy expected a long summer of boring work at a local nondescript retail store. With all her friends away for the summer she only had her stupid blog to look forward to. What she didn't expect was to meet a tall, brooding musician with a secret hidden deep. She also didn't expect a purple pegasus to come flying through the sliding automatic doors of CVS, decree that she was a wizard, Harry, and send her on a whirlwind adventure of love, laughter and, most importantly, friendship. New York Times Best-Selling author, God, is at it again proving that you can't always judge a book by it's cover. And neither can I.

Holy shit. It's sad how funny I think I am sometimes!