YES LESS THAN A MONTH!

Two days before another month has gone by since I've written a post. VICTORY!

Not to much has happened since last month. The bands going really well. We are starting to work on setting up a benefit show for Rock for Kids. It's slow starting, but it should be pick up soon.

Also I got a new job. Well ANOTHER job. I'm still working at Direction, but now I also work for the Metro. I'm the Street Team Manager, which basically means I'm in charge of what I do at Direction. So that's cool. But getting a new job has made me look at all my past jobs and realize that not only have I had A LOT of jobs, but some really awesome ones. So I decided that I wanted to reminisce about passed jobs.

Starting with my first EVER job, which was working at Peter's Bakery in Cary. I started off working there as the dishwasher and then after awhile I started opening up the store at 5 am on Saturdays. Since it was before I had a car I used to walk there at 4:30 in the morning and so many mornings I would get pulled over by a cop asking me what I was doing. But aside from Saturdays I would work there after school everyday. I had a blast there, especially once I started learning how to decorate cakes with some really awesome people. The owners Phil and Pam were really great to me. I worked there for like 2 years.

After the Bakery I made the unfortunate jump to Chuck E. Cheese. Although I say unfortunate I had a blast there. I met some really awesome people that I'm still friends with today. I started off as a Cashier there as everyone does. And then went to birthday parties to which i then became the Birthday Coordinator, which basically meant I ran all the birthday parties or at least the logistics of them. I did have a blast there because I was really good friends with the managers and I was sort of a manager myself, so I mostly dicked around and ate free pizza.

From CEC I went to Office Max, which was a lot of fun. I started off there as cashier there as well, but eventually moved to floor then I moved to the Logistics Team, which meant that I would wake up and be at OMAX by 5am and we would unload pallets of merchandise and put them out on the shelf. We used to work from 5am to 9am and then we would play cards for 2 hours get paid for it then dick around till 1 and leave. It was a blast. I also met a lot of cool people there to namely Big Sexy and Jeremy.

While I was at Office Max I also worked at my neighbors Engineering company where I basically just helped him using a CAD program to draft up retaining walls. It was pretty boring. I didn't work there very long at ALL. From OMAX I went to Allstate.

Basically my job at Allstate was to use markers to color pieces of paper. It was pretty ridiculous, but they paid me like 12 bucks an hour. I was supposed to be there from 7:30am to 5pm. FUCK THAT. Right? I would get there at 8 or 9 and leave at like 3, but still get paid for the full day. Don't ask me how. Then I got fired from there. Haha.

After leaving, voluntarily of course, from Allstate. I worked at Borders for awhile. Where I started out as a cashier went to floor then went to logistics there too. Same path really as OMAX. I had a lot of fun there also met a lot of cool people. Mostly a lot of cool older woman, who are still in love with me ;). I was there for awhile too. I took A LOT of CDs from there.

From Borders I was an Ice Cream man. Yup slinging cream all summer. Which, I don't want to say was fun, but it wasn't bad. Most of the time Mills, Eric and I would just sit at Hooters and drink all day. Pretty ok. I got fat because I ate A LOT of ice cream.

After the summer was over I needed another job, so I worked at Apple in Oak Brook. Apple was one of the coolest places I've ever worked. There was just such awesome employees there and really awesome customers. Just very loyal people that WANT to learn more and WANT the product. Every where else I worked it's like the employee is inconveniencing the people that are there shopping. But I didn't work at Apple very long unfortunately I was living up on the North side of Chicago and the drive to Oak Brook was RIDICULOUSLY long. A 8 hour day at work would turn into a 12 hour day because of the drive. It was only a 30 min drive, but add traffic it became 2 hours each way. Couldn't do it anymore.

After Apple I started working at Minty Fresh Records, which probably beats out Apple for coolest job. I just learned so much about the industry there and Jim and Anthony were such great guys that were working and are working incredibly hard to stay afloat in these gray times in the industry. I just learned so much from them and what I learned beats out ANYTHING that I would have gotten paid from them.

After MF, I went into a long unemployment. Started writing for Wonka Vision magazine just writing reviews for them, which is just a great way to get a bunch of free cds except for stealing them from borders.

Which brings us to today where I work at Direction Tour Marketing and Promotions and now the Metro, although I don't start till next week.

My resume is ridiculously long. Filled with silly things, but I've had a huge spectrum of jobs, but I've benefited in one way or another from everything that I've done and I have TONS of stories. And what's life unless you have stories?

Also tonight I'm going to see Four Year Strong. Fuck you boners.

-Chris