Friday, July 26, 2013

New Job Follow Up


My last post was about the process I went through to get my job at Value Village. Here is my follow up post, my first official day of work was today, I basically just organized the sales floor for most of my shift. I did have to chance to help a few customers look at jewelry which was the most exciting part of my shift besides break. The most tedious part of the job is making sure the clothing racks are in order because there are three managers on at the same time and they all have a different way of doing things. So I was very confused. By the end of my shift I was just so relieved to be on the bus heading home. My feet are hurting so bad from standing 90% of the time. My first day coming in to work was this wednesday but I won't count that as my first day, because I was just watching training videos and doing quizzes for most of the time which took five hours to finish, and I had to stay back later and organize the sales floor. A major positive of this job is that it motivates me to aggressively look for another one. As I am writing this I am in bed waiting for my food to digest so I can sleep, I'm so sure that this whole post seems a bit like an incoherent rant, but I just figured that I better right it now. 

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

New Job



For the past few months since I have been looking for a summer job, summer's pretty much over but luckily I got something to do. I applied to Value Village online about two months ago and forgot about it. Then three weeks ago I got a call about my application, and was invited to a group interview. The group interview was pretty uncomfortable for me since; I didn't know what to expect and being around other nervous people, just makes things worse. However interviewers liked me and gave me a date for a second interview. Which was a one on one, it went fairly smoothly and I was much more at ease. The interviewer seemed pretty pleased with the way I handled myself, when he told me to make a hippy costume in 10 minutes. I apparently made the best costume he'd seen all day. He told me that I would find out within two weeks if I got the position or not. Unfortunately there was a big mix up with my references and I thought, I wouldn't get the job. However in the end after that was ironed out and a third interview with the district manager I was offered the job a day later. Last friday I attended the orientation which was just standard company policy review, paperwork, tours, and basic information. I start my first official day tomorrow as a sales clerk. The only thing I am on edge about is working the cash register. I am severely horrible at math and I am pretty sure I will be super slow at counting change. I guess I will just have to see how it goes since I won't be on cash for a week or so. Hopefully their cash registers are super easy to use. Also out of all the people that were interviewed which was about two groups of eight. Only three people showed up to the orientation, I'm not sure if I should feel good, or worried.

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Will Trap Be The New Dubstep?

  I've been listening to dubstep since late 2009 when it was fairly underground to North Americans, and kept listening throughout it's rise to popularity. I first discovered the genre from listening to Zomby, while his music is not considered dubstep, I somehow found out about it through him and from there I discovered artists such as; Skream, Caspa, Benga, & Burial. The genre gained noticeable fame throughout North America in late 2010 however, the sound had evolved into something that sounded nothing like the stuff I had been listening to earlier on. Especially Skrillex's music which pretty much just sounds like one big computer malfunction. Since then the genre seems to be less popular than it was before, and I think a new genre will take it's place in the foreground of popular culture. I am predicting that genre to be trap, it has the same bass heavy qualities, but the tempo structure is completely different. Even though dubstep is declining in popularity I will keep listening to it. Below are a few tracks from both genres, you can compare the two genres for yourself.