Well, where to begin? I retired from GM in July of 06. I thought I had it made. But that wasn't quite true. My Husband has very poor health. We have health insurance, but the out of pocket expenses were killing us. I decided to get a trial job for the Christmas Holidays.
It turned out that almost every place that was hiring now hires online. The minute you say you have no retail experience your application seems to go into the circular file!
I did get hired by one of the department stores in the area. It was the only one that had a face to face interview. I'm still there after 90 days.
I am glad to have the job. We can always use the money. But the work is killing me! I never realised how hard retail stocking is!
The company wants to make changes that are really making me mad. Our store does very well in the audits. I don't know why we have to have programs that are meant to kick the poorer producing stores in the butt! We're doing well, why would you want to kick us in the butt? I guess your reward for a lot of hard work is more hard work! I'd rather have a better reward than that!
I envisioned my retirement as much better than this. I have to say that I am mighty disappointed by it all. I wanted a fun and exciting retirement. That's not what I got.
I guess I will have to do a lot more work on this new life of mine.
