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Right, so I put my nice clothes on today and went to Outback, and filled out the application, only to be promptly told that they don't take servers without at least THREE YEARS of experience waiting tables. They MUST be joking. What the hell is there about waiting tables that takes three years to learn?? (seriously, I'd like to know!)
Anyway, they said they're probably hiring Host/Hostess types mid-September, but that doesn't exactly get me excited. I've seen the kind of chicks that the more expensive restaurants have doing the hostess gig, and I don't think I look enough like a recovering sorostitute to qualify. ;p It's okay, though, because I'd rather work at Kinko's anyway, and I'd be spectacularly good at that job. And Hostesses probably don't have the advantage of massive tips.
I think I'm going to apply to Misako and Sakura, when I get a chance. I love Japanese food, and perhaps I'd get an opportunity to speak Japanese I know in a real-life situation, seeing as I'm probably not going to make it to Japan in the immediate future. That would probably be the coolest food service job *ever*, as far as I'm concerned.
This train of thought really makes me want to make sushi and oyako don. I *need* to go to Sunrise!
ANYWAY. Last night at work was actually pretty long, and I was behind the wheel for most of the night. Boss James started a sort of religious discussion, at one point, which basically amounted to us agreeing that we're agnostic and that the process of education tends to make religious folk question their beliefs.
See, these days I'm of the belief that, if people want to pursue a religion, they should actually study up on it and read the religious text(s) associated with it. It seems that a lot of folks attend religious services, where they're told that such-and-such passage from the Bible/Koran/Book of Mormon/whatever means X and Y, and they accept that as The One Correct Interpretation, rather than reading it for themselves and drawing their own conclusions. There's a lot that can be left to interpretation, and while religion is not a bad thing in and of itself, the system of attending churches and bible schools seems to preclude the kind of critical thought that *should* be put into an individual's belief system. You'd think that people would want to invest more time and energy into something that they believe in so vehemently.
And yes, that was an incredibly broad generalization. I have personally known people who actually strive to think intelligently about what their belief system means to them, and that's the kind of thing I wholeheartedly support. That's what *everyone* should be doing.
Speaking of reading up on religion, I bought Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters and the Tao Te Ching yesterday, and I can't decide which one I want to read first. Gwaaaaa. :D I've read parts of the Tao Te Ching before, though, so maybe I'll put that off for a bit.
If you couldn't tell, I'm in kind of a bogged down mood, and I'm terribly sleepy to boot, so I'm going to go watch the TV and perhaps catch a few extra winks.
Anyway, they said they're probably hiring Host/Hostess types mid-September, but that doesn't exactly get me excited. I've seen the kind of chicks that the more expensive restaurants have doing the hostess gig, and I don't think I look enough like a recovering sorostitute to qualify. ;p It's okay, though, because I'd rather work at Kinko's anyway, and I'd be spectacularly good at that job. And Hostesses probably don't have the advantage of massive tips.
I think I'm going to apply to Misako and Sakura, when I get a chance. I love Japanese food, and perhaps I'd get an opportunity to speak Japanese I know in a real-life situation, seeing as I'm probably not going to make it to Japan in the immediate future. That would probably be the coolest food service job *ever*, as far as I'm concerned.
This train of thought really makes me want to make sushi and oyako don. I *need* to go to Sunrise!
ANYWAY. Last night at work was actually pretty long, and I was behind the wheel for most of the night. Boss James started a sort of religious discussion, at one point, which basically amounted to us agreeing that we're agnostic and that the process of education tends to make religious folk question their beliefs.
See, these days I'm of the belief that, if people want to pursue a religion, they should actually study up on it and read the religious text(s) associated with it. It seems that a lot of folks attend religious services, where they're told that such-and-such passage from the Bible/Koran/Book of Mormon/whatever means X and Y, and they accept that as The One Correct Interpretation, rather than reading it for themselves and drawing their own conclusions. There's a lot that can be left to interpretation, and while religion is not a bad thing in and of itself, the system of attending churches and bible schools seems to preclude the kind of critical thought that *should* be put into an individual's belief system. You'd think that people would want to invest more time and energy into something that they believe in so vehemently.
And yes, that was an incredibly broad generalization. I have personally known people who actually strive to think intelligently about what their belief system means to them, and that's the kind of thing I wholeheartedly support. That's what *everyone* should be doing.
Speaking of reading up on religion, I bought Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters and the Tao Te Ching yesterday, and I can't decide which one I want to read first. Gwaaaaa. :D I've read parts of the Tao Te Ching before, though, so maybe I'll put that off for a bit.
If you couldn't tell, I'm in kind of a bogged down mood, and I'm terribly sleepy to boot, so I'm going to go watch the TV and perhaps catch a few extra winks.
