Interview #4: It's........ Chuckie!

My fourth interview was another volunteer job, I had obtained this position because it was much closer to home. I didn't like this job at all, and I was able to go back to the mail room eventually.


This was a maintenance position, which seemed easy enough. I was told I would vacuum and sweep for a school... I was thinking in an actual school. But this place wasn't even the school...
This school was for bad kids, I had to clean their dorms.
First off, the dorms looked like ancient buildings you'd see in a horror movie. Apparently is used to be a convent for nuns.
Someone was already on the maintenance crew, this 29 year old woman with three kids. Since she was alone with this position for a long time. She made ME do all of the dirty work! I had to clean toilets, showers and pick up garbage. She never let me vacuum and I never got to sweep like I was told I would do.
The whole place had a creepy aura to it, I felt like it was haunted or something. One of the rooms, in fact had a chuckie doll in them... just a glimpse of how evil this kids were...
Everyday you'd turn the lights on and.... Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Chuckie! It was really creepy!

The top dorms had the rooms for all of the older kids, and the boys rooms were FILLED with pictures of non nude women with gigantic breasts. The kids there must have incredibly dirty minds.. it was very disturbing.
The whole place just had an uneasy feeling.
The travel was terrible, it took me like 20 minutes to get there from walking from the bus stop... I was told it wouldn't be hard to get there, but I had to walk forever across a mall. By the time I would get there, I was already tired and sweating. Then I had to do more labor that was very tiring... the whole job wore me out and I was only there for three days!
The people were nice, except for this one lady... I mean she was nice but she said this one remark that I thought was rude. She asked me how I thought the job was; I responded "It's an interesting job I have not experienced before". In which she replied along the lines of "Well, sometimes we have to do things we don't want to do." I don't remember clearly, but I just remember I found it to be rude... especially when I didn't say that I didn't like the job.
I enjoyed having lunch though, since it was summer... I would chill on the picnic bench, I would eat lunch and then read a manga for a half an hour. The good thing was there was no supervision...

So, I took an hour lunch when I was only supposed to have a half an hour. But mainly because it was a very physical position that tired me out easily, it just wasn't something I was able to do simply... I had a very tough time with it... as I am not the Hulk or Hulk Hogan.

I was incredibly lucky that I was able to go back to the mail room; it may have taken two and a half hours to get there, but at least it wasn't creepy and physically demanding.

Lesson Learned: Not all jobs are enjoyable, some can be hard, boring, and just downright horrible. The place and the atmosphere can be eerie and un-enjoyable. Sometimes we have to do things we don't like.