Target

01-03-09
So today was my last day at Target thank Jehovah...yes I said Jehoavah. I've worked in a variety of places. A casual restaurant, IHOP, an upscale joint, Bravo, a laid back fun restaurant, Texas Roadhouse, a job where you literally just sat there and ran a cash register and watching some cool and some badass little kids. Side note badass is a unique term that when you put it in front the word children or kids it automatically is understood to have a negative connotation but before or after pretty much anything else it has a positive connotation. Thought I'd point that out. Anyway I'm not going to put target at the bottom of my list but it certainly doesn't go at the top. Also let me state that Target will be the last menial job I have. My job was to pull all of the stock of the front of the shelf for better presentation and easier access for the customers. Occasionally I helped people find something they were looking for. Seeing as how I worked over the holidays most of the things people were looking for we were out of. Now I know I'm not a business major but I have to basic theory of supply and demand down I would like to think. Now if demand spikes at a particular time of the year especially an anticipated time of year shouldn't supply also increase. You cannot tell me its a matter of production because this is america in the age of technology we can produce an H-bomb in weeks if not days and you're saying we cannot produce enough wii fits that we're not out EVERYDAY. Enough elmos so moms aren't literally coming to fist fights in toys r us. Enough bakugan (which I still have to have someone explain to me) so that the price doesn't jump 1000% on Ebay. Who does that really help except the already wealthy? I think the stores and the companies and the people would all benefit. So simply overstock during the holidays and then cut back right after (and people will still buy with gift cards and christmas money) and then by march you could go back to normal stocking. I'm sure there are some logistics that I'm oblivious to because my plan just sounds too easy and perfect to actually be able to be to work so if you know of them please let me know if not I'll ask some business or marketing major in the near future. Anyway I'm really tired of just not making any type of difference in the world. Yeah everyone makes a difference with everything they do. Well sorry I actually want a sense of satisfaction when I do something seeing as how I'm coming off feeling like shit for the past 6 months. So sorry delivering food to an asshole business man, sliding a card for some munchies for a high college kid, or pulling those toys to the front of the shelf so some badass kid (there it goes again) can knock it down really doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction. So that's why I've changed my dreams from living the american dream (9-5, family, paid vacation, all that jazz) to doing research in artificial intelligence. Along with the research I'll be teach college kids probably some basic courses in computer science. Though I probably won't make as much money as I would being a software engineer and working my way up the ladder I think this will provide much more satisfaction in my life and I should be able to still have the things I want. But yeah I'm going to do undergraduate research, be an RA, be a tutor anything but work at Mcdonalds or some place. But who knows if money doesn't fall right I may just start selling crack or something (I wonder how much people smoke weed in texas in comparison to NC...I'll have to find out). But yeah now I'm done at target and only 2 weeks until I leave for Texas....yay!!! (ahh whatever)