Ok, so it has been roughly two months since my last post on here, which is really bad. I had been going good since I launched this blog, but I do not know why I haven’t posted in so long. Maybe it is because up until now nothing exciting has taken place. I have been working at the brand-new Grand Theatre since May 18th as an Usher. Really I am nothing more than a janitor (clean floors, spills, bathrooms, etc). The first two weeks were great, I was able to get 45+ hours a week. Then came the third week where I was dropped (along with the whole usher staff) to 11.75 hours. I started to explore my options. I placed a few job applications at local businesses, but heard nothing back. Then the fourth week came and I was down to 11 hours. It was then when I decided to take a chance.
I starting looking around and found an opening for a “Quality Assurance Intern” with the local office of ARINC. It looked easy enough from the job description as I would be essentially working with Microsoft Office apps and proofreading. The next week came and I was down to 10 hours that week at the theatre. I was really hoping ARINC would call me back, and on one morning I woke up and decided I would apply with UPS for a package handler position. I was running out of options.
It was at that moment that I got a phone call from the human resources manager at the local ARINC office, who told me that they had an Internship that would be more engineering based and offered me an interview. This was last week. I went in for my interview, got a tour of the facility and was told that I would probably hear something back soon. This week on Wednesday I got the phone call saying that they were signing off on my offer letter and that I should get it shortly. On Friday the FedEx guy showed up with an envelope. At first I didn’t think it was for me, but it was and inside was a folder with the offer letter and some paperwork to fill out. I wasted no time. I made some calls to various ARINC HR people and headed out the door. I went by the office to drop off the paperwork then headed into town for a pre-employment drug test. All of that went by quickly. If there are no hiccups (which there shouldn’t be) I will start within a week.
Afterwards, I stopped by a friend’s house and we went Geocaching over at St. Andrew’s State Park. Managed to find two caches; one of which had a $1 lotto scratch off, which I won $1 from! There was a third we tried to find twice, but we just couldn’t get it. I doubt I will be back there anytime soon, since it cost $5 to get in.
Hopefully, this will not be the last post before I head back to UCF. I am sure I can think of something to write about between now and then………