Tick Tock, Tick Tock. I am going to kill this clock. The longer I sit here and listen the more insane I think I am going. What they say about watching paint dry, is also true for watching time go by at work. I work part-time at a bowling alley, Falcon Lanes to be exact. Seconds quickly seem like minutes, minutes drag on for hours, and hours unbearably appear like days.
In the four years I have worked at this bowling alley I have come to the understanding that summer hours are boring, it is not peak bowling season by any means, and if I have more than 10 customers through it is considered a good day.. at times one customer can be a good day. I have often wondered why exactly this is. We have air conditioning in here, we sell cold drinks, we are an entertaining place to take the family, yet from May till September we sit like a ghost town.
I understand that people would much rather go to the beach, but what does one do when they have had too much sun, swallowed to much water or burnt far to much, perhaps they should go bowling, to escape the heat.
I am being productive, in my mind that is, my boss would not see what I have spent the last 5 hours doing as beneficial to their company. Yet he does not care, as long as I sit here awaiting the customers he hopes will suddenly magically appear.
During my time here I have blogged, Tweeted, Face-booked, updated my profile on LinkedIn and sent out a number of Resume`s to potential employers. I have no intention of leaving my current part-time position I simply need something full time to fill up the rest of my time and pay my bills.
Some would say what I spent that time doing was slacking, however on the contrary I was being far more productive than many people are during their entire day at work.
For a Journalist, Networking is a very important task in their career. If you have no social media presence I am sorry to say that you will not be very successful in this day and age.
I resisted the soft chirping coming from my friends Twitter accounts but finally caved in and decided that I too should Tweet like a bird, It is a great way to make connections and to keep up to date on what is going on in the world, for both entertainment and work purposes.
My goal now is logical, I must find myself a following, must branch out and make connections, must some how make the world aware that I am here in it and need to be heard. If you have any suggestions on how I might go about doing this please feel free to contact me in whatever way, shape or form you see fit.
Monday, July 19, 2010
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