It turns out that Jamie technically works for a small company called Ameritech, not Dacorp. The Dacorp portion of the company is located within the same building, but it's kind of separate. Dacorp is apparently where they do sewing and stuff. This Ameritech/Dacorp company manufactures all kinds of weird different stuff. Yesterday, Jamie screen-printed 900 grease rags for the Christian Motorcycle Association. And they make tarps (like you see on the roofs of some children's playgrounds), and "turkey bags" (in which to place your decoy turkeys -- what else), among all kinds of other oddball things. Weird!
Anyway, Jamie really likes it; he works in a room with about 5 other people (many of which he was acquaintances with already, or they knew the same people), and he says it's really quiet in there; that you can barely hear the machines running. So that's surprising and good. And Jamie said that everybody working there is super-friendly and talks back and forth to each other and cuts up a little together all day. It made me think about my old days at the bank when not everyone was super-friendly, and it was a severe no-no to even talk to each other. So I'm glad that Jamie is getting to work in a nice, laid-back place.
The plan is for Jamie to eventually be trained on pretty much everything in the place so that he can step in and help anywhere that's necessary. And he will probably even drive their truck, too. (Let's hope that this truck is actually bolted to the frame)...LOL! :/
He has to be there at 7:00 every morning to start working, and he gets off work every day at 3:30. And he doesn't have to work on the weekends. They take a break around 10:00, a 30-minute lunch at noon, and another break at 2:00.
When Jamie worked for the garbage-truck place, he had to get up at 2:30 in the morning and start running his trash route at 3:00 AM. And then he would have to work up to a 12-hour day. He never complained about it, but face it, that sucks! This morning was interesting because Jamie was at home long enough to help me get Lilly ready for school (which is a MAJOR undertaking, since Lilly is COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE to get out of the bed, and many times we barely make it to the school bus stop in time thanks to Lilly's awful, comatose morningtime dawdling). So that works out really well for us, and I'm so glad!
So who knows. All the people who told me that things happen for a reason, and how when one door closes, another one opens, maybe they were right after all.
I mean, sure, it sucks not to be making very much money. I know money isn't everything, but it would be nice to have treats and buy cool stuff that we really don't need, but that would be fun to have once in a while (especially for Lilly), but money can't buy happiness. You just have to figure out how to finesse your finances and realize that it's not what you make; but what you keep.
So maybe this employment snafu has a silver lining. (I'm hoping)!
Fingers remaining crossed!
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