I am not a blogger

I am a man of action. Sometimes that action could mean doing nothing, or it could mean changing everything all at once. But usually it is somewhere in between. As I had said a week or so ago, I am not totally satisfied with my systems of sort of floating through this whole college thing. I don’t have total confidence in the idea that it is going to works when I finally decide I want some of those little K words running around pooping everywhere. So I have decided to start my move towards being a responsible person by adding a couple shades of responsibility to my life.

I went out last week to our local pizza shop, everyone knows it because any weekend at two am there is a line two blocks long that doesn’t go away until after four. I wanted to see if they could get me a higher paying job as a delivery driver. I have a buddy who has been doing it for three years now and he makes pretty good money. HE has recently had to make some changes to his system since gas is getting so expensive such as biking the close deliveries and not trying to fly around town when it is really busy. HE told me that he has been able to actually stay on top of his debt because he makes so much in tips. Then he uses his paychecks to finish off his rent and party expenses, his are quite high. When I went in there to see about a job he was in there so I was basically already hired right on the spot. They told me I could start the next night.

When he told me I would be making tons of money for just driving, or riding, around all night I was thinking I would have enough money by the end of the summer to ease some of this pressure I’ve been feeling. The problem with my vision was that I didn’t think about how much of their business comes from students. Families in this area don’t buy pizza from the college pizza shops, they stick to the chains. Now that students have been gone for a month now I am not as surprised that the shop gave me so many hours to start. They weren’t seeing a great employee, they saw a desperate person who would make sure the random deliveries were taken care of all summer before the real business starts in the fall.

My plan now is to just stick out the uncomfortable summer months and then start to really rake it in when the fall rolls around and people get back in to town. I have been hearing that business has been getting better the last couple of years for them so I hope I am riding on that wave when the leaves start to fall again. So here’s to a summer of hot car seats and steaming bags of pizza in the seat next to me. I’m gonnna go for a drive while I bake in the sun, broke and burnt.