it's 2023, i'm in my late 20s and have been with my partners MJ and Alex for 5 years and 2 years, respectively.
i realized pretty early in my post-high school education that being in cosmetology just wasn't for me. it's been hard, especially the past three years. i was working in an industry that i really enjoyed, but the first company i was with filed bankruptcy right before the pandemilovato, and since MJ and i both worked for them, we both lost our jobs. thankfully we both decided to stay till the very end so we got stay-on bonuses.. MJ was able to get a work-from-home job during the lockdown, but was let go in august '22. my second company in the industry i was working in was really great. i had a great team, i made great friends, and customers always asked for me; it honestly was a dream come true for me, even tho the job itself came with some seriously unnecessary stress. Unfortunately, i was let go literally THE WEEKEND BEFORE CHRISTMAS '22, and while i will admit that it was because of a mistake on my end, i really wish they had at least considered corrective action instead of just firing me. two years of literal blood, sweat and tears, all the hard work i put in to making my location(which opened only two months before i hired on) one of the best in our county, even though it didn't have the full range of products our company offered at our other locations. I wish I had gotten customer testimonies about my work ethic, to show the places i've applied to since that i would be an incredible addition to their teams. but oh well! life goes on.
MJ and i have been living together since the end of 2019, which has been really life changing for me. Alex lives in a different state, so i don't get to see him often (we've only been able to see each other in person once in our entire relationship) but that doesn't mean i don't absolutely adore him.
anyways, i just needed to write this down somewhere.
at least out of all the bullshit i've gone through in the past two years, i've made some incredible friends through it.
 Head Ankle Biter · Tue Feb 28, 2023 @ 02:35am · 0 Comments |
