Just thought I'd say Praise God for everything...

I FOUND A JOB...

So...last time I was here I complained about not being able to find a job...especially one that I knew I would enjoy doing. I am happy to tell you people that I, Lakeisha Danielle White, now have a job at Lane Bryant. I may have another job at Old Navy if I play my cards right. I'm so excited because just when I thought I was about to go home and work for my sister in the GNC health store for retail experience, here calls Lane Bryant for an interview and a starting day of the following Wednesday.

My starting day (Wednesday) I had an interview with a representative from Old Navy. it was totally awesome...the interview was smooth, straight to the point, and convienient. Not only was the Old Navy interview an hour before my Lane Bryant orientation, but they are both in the same building, Tallahassee Mall. I'm so stoked...I'll keep you updated on what happens next...

Sitting in Florida...

Yea...all this sitting in Tallahassee, Florida without a job...cut it out. I find it funny that by this being the summer, no one is really hiring for jobs. I mean Sears, Bath and Body Works, Toys 'R' Us, Dillards, Macy's...no one. This is a bust...clearly the pits. I just don't understand. Why is it that the nice, clean, willing to be a hard worker can't get a job? Yet these loners with failed suicide attempts, gangbangers and whores have twelve jobs. My dawg Shannen just said she saw a crackhead with a job...in the mall. The mall...really? Why does she have a job and not me? I don't understand...

Then there's the dilemma of not having retail experience that everyone seems to blurt out loud..."Do you have any RETAIL experience?" Forget that...man just give a sista like me a chance to prove that I can what little Becky Sue or Jasmine can do...you're selling clothing for God's sake. I can sell opened ketchup packets to a lady in white gloves...why won't you Floridians give me a mother freakin' job?

But that's okay...see my sister is the manager at GNC in the mall back home in Mississippi. She told me that if I ever came home and needed a job, then I'd have on. Here lies the problem...in Florida, minimum wage is $6.75, a quarter away from $7. Some jobs even start you out with more than that. Yet in Mississippi, minimum wage is between $5.25 and $5.75...what am I gonna do with that? What bills can possibly be paid with that? I understand the cost of living in Mississippi is cheaper than Florida but can't minimum wage be the same everywhere? This is clearly a bust is slowly turning into the pits...