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217.9 lbs today. Keeping the weight off… again… for now?

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I recently left the military because they couldn’t do anything right, even the simple stuff. I’ve now had my shifts with the Commissionaires changed 3 times this week. Three times!? How can they be this bad at planning?

They didn’t even know I was working today, tomorrow and Friday. They called me on my phone and wanted to know if I could work that night. I told them I was already at work, as per my instructions by email just Monday afternoon, which they had to send to me because they changed things the day prior on Sunday. Maybe it’s 4 days and 3 changes but the point is: WTF?

It’s not like I’m covering other’s sick shifts, these are training shifts. I show up, make the minimum they pay their people, which is a little less than $1 more than minimum wage, because that’s the training rate. When I’m trained, and I cover someone’s shift or get scheduled at a location I’m trained at, I make the marginal marked up rate for that location. This begs the question: how do you fuck up my training schedule 3 times?

First it’s at location A, then B, and now C… where I said I did not want to go. I asked to not go work at 17 Wing and… that’s where I’ll be this week — FOR NOW. Who the fuck knows, right? This could change tomorrow!

Part of me is ticked off on top of all this because they ended my shift today, told me to go home. That’s 4 hours I’m not getting paid. I get that I was sent home to get enough sleep to start my 10 hour shift in the early morning tomorrow, which with overtime almost makes up for the lost hours tonight, but it sure fucks up solidifying plans with any friends.

Conman has been wanting to hang out this week but I’ve been saying no because my schedule keeps changing. He also wants to see WWZ with me and another friend, and I doubt I can bet on that either. To top this all off, and this may sound silly, I don’t want the 40 hour weeks they’re giving me!

I want three 8 hour shifts, 24 hours a week, to count as full-time with them, and give me the flexibility of meeting with potential employers and the like, networking in general at least.

Movement on that has been hopeful because just this afternoon I also got a call back from the first place that interviewed me for a PM position. They wanted to tell me the position has been re-advertised and would I like to apply again. Of course I would! That they’re even calling me at least confirms they want me at some level, despite not telling me one way or another before this re-posting.

If they didn’t want me they wouldn’t have called. This actually works in my favour because it gives me a little more bargaining power at the table if we meet again.

That’s three… THREE potential jobs on the market that I’m a contender for, not that I kno when any of them actually start. But the sooner the better.

I’m very happy with myself for sending the scheduling people at work an email telling them I cannot do Wed and Friday morning this week, because I have physiotherapy appointments booked. My back is feeling tender today but my therapist says the amount of joint movement she was able to work in my t-spine where I’ve very immobile was impressive. Whew. Still, sore.

UHG, have to get final wedding stuff done, right damn meow. MEOWs I says!

Overall, I’m feeling excited and good. In just over 2 months I’m marrying a woman I do not deserve.