So I just got home from my first day of work in San Francisco at Rasputin Music. It was super fun and it reminds me of working in the music library at WUSC. I’m going to be a floor person so I’ll be walking around, alphabetizing CDs, vinyl, DVDs, and other such merch. Its interesting how starting a job in the bay area really makes if feel like Its real… I’m really living here. I could feel the switch from tourist to resident when the through crossed my mind “Oh I hope I’m not going to be late for work” as I boarded my last train.
I think its finally starting to officially sink in that I’m here to stay. I brought my lunch, like any good thrifty commuter worker wood. I was sitting there eating thinking about what I had learned so far and what was coming up in my training next when I look up and just soak in the experiance of my first lunch break in the city. lol I had a lunch break! lunch box and everything. With my home made sandwitch, orange slices, and granola bars. I watch a group of people cross the street and looked up at the tall buildings surrounding us and had this over whellming feeling of satisfaction as it sunk in that I have finally made it.
I spent the frist few hours going over the 4th and 5th floor of the store with Ben the store manager for the day. Then I went down to the front counter and worked as counter help for the rest of my shift. They didn’t want be trained as a cashier but as help because sometimes the floor staff help in that capasity at the ront counter. They have a bit of a tag team approch to there front counter. They have one person there as counter help opening the merchandice cases and then baging the merchandice when the cashier is done ringing it up. So I learned how to open most of the cases they have in the store, checking VHS and records to make sure there in the right case. Pretty easy stuff… just doing that and making sure the back of the regesters stayed neat and tidy and the crates for the cases I was taking off didn’t start over flowing.
It was a lot of fun and I can’t wait for my next shift. Which is two days from now. I start Bed Bath & Beyond Tuesday so that will help with the boredom while waiting for my next record store shift. :0) My phone kept going off while I was at work. I sit here for months with no calls and then all of a sudden I start working and everyone has questions or wants to talk. lol thankfully I put my phone on vibrate and just checked it when the vibration started to get a little annoying.
The cashiers were wondering why I, the new person, wasn’t being trained to start out with them. When they asked if I worked in another record store before I said no so they looked even more confused so I filled them in on my years of experiance at the radio station. This is why my general manager decided to make me a floor person and not a cashier. :0) That experiance is finally making me money again. Its still little money but its money. I didn’t get paid much being a Music Director at the station. I’m not getting paid a lot at the record store either but that’s ok. I like the work and its easy.
