Bah.
As some of you know, I work at Wal*Mart. While it's not the best place in the world to work, it doesn't completly suck, the pay is decent and the people can be great.
Well, there are changes coming company-wide with Wal*Mart. Really, I see it as Wal*Mart looking very short-term - which, means to me that I don't see Wal*Mart being in my long-term plans. I probably haven't mentioned this much here, but I worked hourly at Wal*Mart, went into management there for a short while, quit to work for my in-laws -bad-, then went back to Wal*Mart as an hourly with some intention to go back into management sometime down the line. However, with the changes coming I just don't think that's in the cards.
Well, I live in Southern Illinois in a pretty desolated area - job wise. To top that off, while I like to think I'm an fairly skilled person, fairly well-rounded person, a 2-year college degree is all I've got. But even if I did have much higher than that, there's not much to go for in this area. Unfortunatly, my wife works for my in-laws (her parents, duh) with their fairly-new restaurant which she pretty much talked them into opening. Now, this restaurant isn't failing by any means, but it certainly isn't high-sailing either. There's no chance in heck that she can leave - the place would fall apart. Which, of course, means I'm stuck here - as leaving her isn't an option for me.
Now, of course, my dream job would be to work for Nintendo, idealy at the Nintendo World Store as a salesfloor associate or, better yet, as a retail representative - with my years of working at Wal*Mart, I would totally kick ass and take at that job. Alas, moving to NYC isn't an option (and the commute would be killer!) and, even though I check about weekly, it's either there is no retail representative position anywhere near my area (which goes in line with what I've seen at local stores) or the person who has that position will have it until they die (or, again, going by what I see at the local stores, perhaps they already have and no one has noticed...)
So I'm stuck. Basically, in this area, it's teaching (which is what I originally went to college for until I spent a summer working with kids and almost went insane), coal mine (heh... I could never cut it) or minimum-wage burger flipping (been there, done that)... Going back to work for the in-laws is not an option (that was a lot of stress for both me and my wife and I never want to put her -or me- through that ever again). And, unfortunatly, my other dream-job of opening an arcade would never work out in this area. Although I would totally have four Mario Kart GP machines in it. Five, if you count my personal machine I'd have in the back room.
Anywhoo... no real point to this post. Just needed to cry and moan a little bit. I've talked with my wife about some of the changes at Wal*Mart, but really, I don't want her to worry about it until it gets to the point that I know 100% that's not where I want to be. Basically, I just needed to get this off my chest and I know things that not a lot of others at my store aren't supposed to know yet, so I can't really talk with them about it... And now that I'm a married old man, I have no real friends, outside of work... so you guys get to hear it all. Aren't you thrilled?
Topic: Gah... life sucks. (Read 3468 times)
