Life At Home

Well, I have managed to lose another job, yet again. My health just will not let me keep a job. I start a job I really like and boom 2 days later I am so sick I can’t get out of bed. My back hurts so bad I think it is broken again. My main problem is the medication. The meds keep me so constipated that I only go once every 2 weeks and that is bad. I am so full of shit, no pun intended, that you can see my stomach region sticking out. I can’t hardly move because of the cramps. Ok, enough about my bowel movements or a lack there of. But it keeps e from keeping a job.

So I am back home trying to find work I can do from here or something very flexible with me. Employersjust don’t like having to accomodate someone who is ill a lot. So my pathetic life continues. It is amazing I haven’t put  bullet to my head yet.

Well I quit working for Whataburger in the IT dept. I couldn’t stand the shift I was working on. I never got to see my wife and child. So I began my search for a new job. I looked and applied for several jobs online, but never got a response. My wife even re-did my resume to look better. I was impressed. But I never got a response from any of the jobs I applied to, even though I had lots of experience. One day while looking through the general jobs section I found a Cable Installer position. I knew I could do the work but I am concerned about the back surgery I had a year ago and the shoulder surgery I had 8 months ago. I went ahead and applied because we need the money. I got an interview and did pretty good because they offered me a job on two conditions. One was to pass a drug test. I don’t do illegal drugs but I do take a prescription which will show up on a drug screen.

I take a drug called methadone. No I am not some junkie who has to take meth instead of heroin. I have never done an illegal drug in my life. What I did do was take pain killers for 10 years because of the 8 surgeries I have had in the last 10 years. So I was worried about the drug test because some employers do discriminate even though it is against the law. I have a disability and according to the americans with disability act they can’t not hire me because I am taking methadone. But we all know that people do discriminate. I mean, If I was an owner of a company, I wouldn’t want someone with baggage like that. As a matter of fact in a certain position with a certain company I didn’t hire someone just because the way they looked. I personally think  a business owner should be able to hire anyone they want and not hire someone for whatever reason they want.  If you as a business owner if you don’t want to hire a black person you should be able to do that because it is your business and you alone pay the bills. I look at it this way, when the government starts paying my bills  then they can tell me who to hire and who not to hire. But until then I will hire and fire based on any decision I want.

Sorry for the side track there. Long story short. I got the job, but the job is hard on my shoulder and back but I make good money. The next sorry thing that happend was my laptops screen has started to go out. I have used that bad boy for two years straight, 10 to 12 hours a day. So I had to go and put down $865.00 for a new one. I like my new laptop, it is an HP DV6000 and it is nice.  Well that is it for now. I have to let some more of my sorry life play out before I write more.

Shon

Does it ever get any better?  Is this what life is all about?  The same thing everyday.  Living paycheck to paycheck.  Working for very little.  Missing all this time with my family, just to make enough to pay the bills.  With the skills I have I should be making way more, but companies in Corpus Christi don’t like to pay anyone what they are worth.  Even though you work your ass off for the company, saving it thousands of dollars every week.  But they never want to pass any of it down to the people who made it for them.  I could keep looking for better work, but it seems to be the same every where you go.  I feel like I am just pissing in the wind.

Shon