I Step On A Pedal And Press A Green Button

My Mood:   — Happily Silly

I’m officially and Almost-Carnie!

This is going to be the single easiest job I have ever had!  I’m gonna love this.  I went for the training at Keansburg today.  Basically this girl named Melissa took me and this other girl around to Kiddie Park 2 and showed us the workings of two of the rides.  Which basically means we can work them all.  Because they all have the same thing.  A pedal that we step on and then a green button on the fuse box thingy tht we press.  The ride starts, we watch the kids, make sure none of them are crying or getting sick, then the ride stops because it’s on an automatic timer.  And we’ll rotate who does what rides so it doesn’t get boring, but that’s my job.  I owe Colleen for ths one, cuz she told me about the online application.  I figured I can easily, (once the park opens during the week,) do forty hours a week, if not a bit more.  Cuz, lemme see, eight hours on Saturday and Sunday.  Then six hours a day, Monday through Friday.  Sixteen plus thirty equals forty six.  Forty six times seven is . . . three hundred and twenty two.  Take out for taxes . . .  and I’ll still make about two hundred and fifty a week!  And we get paid weekly!

Wow.  So, wait a minute.  If I do this, that’s roughly a thousand a month.  Okay, my expenses per month are car gas/maintenance, which I’m not sure what tht costs.  Just making mention of gas, that’s about twenty to thirty a month.  Thern there’s the gym.  That’s sixty.  Mom, that’s one fifty.  The cell phone, that’s about forty five, going on the high end.  Then my credit card, and that can be as much as two hundred.  Okay, so add that together and that equals . . . Four hundred and eighty five.  Okay.  So, assuming I get the job at Domino’s and can work it so I work from five till eleven or so, I can safely say that once June hits and the park is in full swing, I can easily put away five hundred a month.  And that’s not even including Domino’s.  Add that in, and damn!  At least Mike and I can be in an apartment by the end of the year.  And honestly, Keansburg is something I think I’ll like doing again, so once March comes next year, I can apply again.  And they’d definitely hire back someone who worked there, because I intend to be a good employee.

I can’t wait for this.  The end of the month is going to be tight for me, what with the gym, and credit card bill, and car repair, and new bird, and all, but I’ll make it work somehow.  Then after that, and especially once June comes, the money’s gonna be rolling in, and by the end of the year, God willing, I’ll be in my own place.  No doubt sharing it with Mike, because I wouldn’t leave him to the mercy of my parents, but still.  I’ll be able to afford my own place!  How great is this?  I can move out and actually be able to manage on my own.

Okay, so I’m a bit too excited about that.  But the reality that it can happen, heck, perhaps sooner than December, is exhilerating.  I should have about four thousand saved by September.  And that doesn’t include the singles and coins I’m stuffing away into piggy banks.  That’s going to amount to a pretty good amount, especially if I keep going at the singles like I have been.  About fifty bucks so far.  Okay, twenty-odd singles and a twenty dollar bill.  I figure I put two twenties in a month, and a bunch of singles.  Then once July comes, I’m gonna add it all up, see what it equals, and put it in my account.

I’m psyched for this.  The only thing I gotta plan correctly for is when Andy and/or Dolly come.

Okay, I’m gonna go and see about cleaning more of my room before Shannon calls to hang out.