Work

So I started a new job this past week, and I am really excited. For starters, the only reason that I have this job is that I drink too much haha. For the last year and half or so, I have been working at a really nice beer bar (it's actually ranked in the top 10 of America) called the Capital Ale House. Many of the beer drinkers out there will recognize the name. So working there, I have been spoiled because my taste for good beer is far above and beyond what anyone would call normal. Thats also why when I saw the sign for a Belgium beer bar in NYC, I had to bring Canada to it. Everyone should experience what a beer can and should taste like. Delicious. So... anyone who has worked in the service industry knows that there are good nights and bad nights.

I had just had a particularly bad night, and I had several BBC Jefferson Reserve's before I left work that night, and when I got home I started looking for a new job. I passed out, and forgot all about it. Apparently, the universe had its eye on me that night, because the next week I got a call from a really reputable company about a remote support position. Needless to say, I quit Cap Ale the day after they offered me a job, and have been in training since last Friday. I am super excited. I finally have a job related to my desired career and major (IT), and it is a real job, with a real income, and really great benefits. Not bad for 21. Its very strange, the concept of not working until I get cut, or getting paid holidays, etc. It will take some getting used to being treated like a human being, not another body who happens to take better care of customers than the rest.

Allright... so that's not entirely true. As I mentioned in the NYC post, until last Friday I have been not working since... about a month now. I had requested the weekend before Halloween off because of fraternity regional meeting held at Tech. I am somewhat of a legend to the colony down there (good luck guys) from a previous trip, and make a point to support them when I can. Anyways, so I put in my two weeks on a Thursday, and since I only work weekends I had the next two days to work and then the Tech trip, so thats the end of Cap Ale for me. I figured I would take Halloween off as an extended vacation to myself, so I told the new job that I would like to start Nov. 7. Well, needless to say I missed my last two shifts because I fell asleep driving back from VB the morning of and nearly wrecked. In typical me fashion, I said screw you guys, I'm going home! Thus began my extremely extended vacation. Which was awesome (Tech was pretty epic itself, and I scored a date to the formal) in and of itself, because I hadn't had a weekend off in many many many moons.

That said, I will miss several things about the old restaurant. The first is the discount on all the great beer. At the store I left, there were 80 taps of the best imported and American craft beers. Where else do you get such rarities as Lindemans Framboise, DFH 120, BFM, Harvieston Old Dubh 30 year Firkins.... O the fine things. And beer geek week.... o the memories. I learned so much there, but I really think working in a beer bar you have two options, alcoholism, or suppressed alcoholism. That and the host staff was always really cute. Haha... yea I said that. Hopefully, I will survive training and become a certified Solutions Engineer by next week!

Im growing up waay too fast. Someone pinch me. My mother told me she was proud of me today... This is the same woman who I showed how I had created a bar in my basement at 18.