Uhaul Update

My home office is set up in what used to be our dining room. It's the only room we were able to hard wire the network connection which is required for my job. On many days Dwayne will be sitting in the family room playing Modern Warfare while listening to me chat on the phone in the background. "Why are you so sweet and nice on the phone all the time when in real life you never talk to me that way?" Dwayne asks offensively. "Because you're not paying me $3.50 for every 7 minutes of my time", I replied. Yes, it's true on the phone I sound happy, chipper, sweet, and thoroughly engaged by my customers needs. I laugh, give compliments, and give a God awful amount of smiling service in order to make a sale. Dwayne knows that is not the real me. He knows I am defiant, bitchy, irritable, sarcastic, blunt, opinionated and cocky 95% of the time. He obviously married me for that rare 5% of pure loveliness that comes out on a rare occasion.

 I'm starting to hate the days he is home while I am working because I knows it bothers him that I can be a charmer 8 hours straight then get off the phone and I'm back to my rotten self. My job is like being an actress. I probably would have fared well as a prostitute in another life.

 This being the first job I've ever had that I am paid based on the amount of "sales/reservations" I make I was worried I wouldn't be able to do it but after a few weeks of training I have found "sales" is the best type of job for a person like myself. FINALLY, a job that the harder I work, the more I get paid. In all past positions, the harder I worked, the more work they gave me, at the same damn pay. I was number one Financial Aid deal closer in the quickest amount of time at The Art Institute, and instead of being rewarded with more money, time off, or better hours, I was handed more work, longer hours and more stress.

 One of the best things about working at Uhaul is NO PAPERWORK, NO FOLLOW UP, and absolutely nothing to think about (work wise) after I clock out. I spent years stressed out thinking about my job and all the stuff I hadn't finished when I should have been sleeping. Now, at bedtime, I get to actually sleep. It's a whole different world and I like it, I like it.