Patience as a virtue...

So I just got done working 5 days in a row at Walmart.  Its nice to be working full time again.  It really wasn't that bad, especially given that its broken into 4, 2-hour segments per day.  The only downside is my right foot.  My heel REALLY hurts, and I know it has to do with the fact that my shoes are woefully inadequate for standing 8+ hours a day.  My heel, especially, hurts.  A lot.  So shoes will probably be purchased after my first big check.

I won't be getting much with my first check.  Mostly I will be paying up on bills and then holding onto the rest for gas/emergencies.  I really don't want to be at Walmart much longer.  Not because of the work, I kinda like talking to people and stuff.  Mostly because I came out here to be working for more than what I'm making here.  i didn't travel 1000+ miles to scrape by.  I came up here to work hard and get paid thusly, not get treated like crap by people that don't understand how their new food stamp card works, or why they can't get dog food with WIC.  I mean, if you want to pay me 20+ an hour to get treated like crap, then by all means, call me a fat slob as you throw your debit card at me, but for 9.50 an hour?  Have some decency.

I'm really happy I could find something out here as quick as I did, but I've reached a wall.  I can get paid this much in Illinois, and have a consistent "home" and my own transportation, plus the proximity of friends and family in the process.  I want more.  Yes, I'm being selfish, but I came up here for more.  I came up here in the hopes of getting 15+ an hour for 80+ hours a week, so I could do a few years, get out of debt, and regain control of my life.  Somewhere in there is a part of me that wonders if I'm supposed to be stuck like this.

I can't afford to keep thinking that way, though.  I just have to put my head down and push forward.  Keep putting in applications and hope someone calls me.  Its only a matter of time, right?  If you do the work, it will come back to you, right?

I've touted karma for awhile now, its time karma paid me back...

Oh, I've been finding out some interesting things about Williston and the area.  I guess the Walmart in Willison has gotten back to actually stocking shelves.  They are so understaffed its not funny.  I'm honestly waiting for management to start taking volunteers for day trips up there to help out.  Then again, its not like we aren't busy here.  Its very rare I don't have a line stretched out to the clothes, let alone a free moment to think.

Some Oil field people talked to me today in my like.  They were telling me that Dickinson is getting ready to explode in size this summer.  The way I interpreted it was this:  the state is about to issue a bunch more drilling permits once the spring thaw is over, and most of them are for the Dickinson and Belfield area, so by fall the Oil people expect Dickinson to start to get like Williston is now, which is chaos.

Williston is actually trying to ban living in an RV within city limits.  Seems like a "Yankee, go home" attitude to me.  A bunch of businesses showed to to a city counsel meeting to protest, saying that they would lose 80% of their workforce if they had to uproot and leave, which could kill the town.  Its nuts.

Tomorrow I have a day off, so that means its laundry day!  I have an interview as well, plus a couple places to go look for applications as well.  Maybe some rest for my aching foot, too.

Until next time.