The summer before I turned 16 was probably one of the hardest summers of my life. Among many reasons the main one was because I needed money and I couldn't get a job. I even tried to convince my very protective dad to let me work at the Sno Shack selling snow cones. He didn't buy it. Finally my birthday rolled around and thankfully I was blessed with a job. I was hired to be a Hostess/Salad Girl at Pasta Factory. I was so excited. My first night was hard. It was slow and I was not used to standing that long. I remember my brother making fun of me after I had complained how stiff I was.
It has now almost been three years since I started working there. Where has the time gone? When I think about how much time I have spent at Pasta Factory I am a little disgusted, but it has been a great blessing in my life. There are days when I come home tired and frustrated, but as I am leaving so soon I realize how much I will miss it. The job itself is easy and mostly fun, but it will be the people that I miss the most. For some reason people don't seem to leave that place. Year after year pass by and it's still the same people opening the restaraunt, waiting inside, and cooking the food. This is precisely the reason why I will miss it. These people have become a family to me. I'm slow to admit that it has actually become a sort of home to me. On nights when I have been stuck at home alone I have found myself making up reasons to go to pasta to cure me of my lonliness.
In the fall Tuacahn offered me a job working in concessions. Thankful for the extra money I accepted. Now that it's summer and I am practically working 24 hours I don't know how thankful I am for the extra job. There are some days when I work at Pasta in the morning and Tuachan in the evening. This week I had to do that two days in a row. I am thankful that I am young and I can physically do this, but mentally I don't know how much more I can take. Work has become my life! I am thankful though, expecially when it is pay day! Well, it's 4:20 and I'm due at work at 4:30 so I'm off....
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