Hellooo

Okay right now I work at an Italian restaurant as a hostess. I make $7.75 an hour. I get about 20 hours a week.
I could train to be a busser, which would be $4.75 an hour plus 3% of sales in my section. Other bussers have told me this ends up being about $30 a night. It would still be 20 or so hours a week, but I could continue being a hostess as well and get up to probably 30 hours.
I have an interview in 2 weeks at Borders Books, which would be temporary but could be long term if I do a good job. This would be $7.75 a hour, I don't know how many hours a week.
I just got a call from JC Penney about setting up an interview to work in their shoe department. I don't know what the pay is, but I am pretty sure there is some commission pay involved. And I don't know how many hours a week, but this job is about 3 miles closer to my home than the other two.
I have also put in other applications I have not heard back about yet.

What do you think I should do? Should I go to both interviews, or just try to get set up as a busser where I already am? Just being a hostess is not making me enough money.

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"the painkillers are better even than high fashion and good coffee." - barkstonwill

fucking hell you get paid SO little?
what is a busser?

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buy me some shoes any maybe take me for cola?

well food service kinda makes me die, so i'd be inclined to suggest you go to both your interviews and if you get both, pick the one where the people who interview you/work there seem the most tolerable.

but if you don't mind the restaurant thing (and a lot of people don't) then i guess it might be easier to stay if the pay/hours are going to be comparable elsewhere. how long have you been at the italian place? sticking around one place can be good for resumes sake if nothing else.

Having a job, no matter how many hours and how much pay, gives you an advantage when looking for other opportunities. Having two part-time jobs can give you the hours you need and experience. An employer would want to hire a motivated worker who is adaptive and learns quickly, so multiple jobs gives you more learning experience. You can decide later which is suited to you. Many people have limited hours, so it shouldn't work against you at all to quit one to take one with more hours later. Sadly, the worker has to leverage themselves between employment opportunities if they want to rise in worth. A happy worker is NOT in their interest, but one who will take what they get and not complain.

Continually improving oneself is the most rewarding life and attracts opportunities.

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cleaning up tables and such.
just glasses and napkins though
i would not have to touch any dirty plates

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"the painkillers are better even than high fashion and good coffee." - barkstonwill

i do not mind it as much as i thought i would except that being a hostess is DEAD BORING
i cannot keep doing that. if i am going to stay there, i am going to have to take up bussing because the hosting thing is intolerable. i mean, we have very busy times where i am running around like a crazy person but then that is followed by two hours of just standing doing NOTHING.
and standing for 6-7hours straight is just miserable

but i have only been there a month. job before this, i was at for a year. job before that, i was at for a year and a half. so i have a fairly good track record
but tbh i never should have taken this job. i was making better money at my last job but the stress and workplace hostility was out of control. i was about to lose my mind. it was a horrible decision because now i am broke but at least i kept some bit of my sanity. and i dont get yelled at constantly for absolutely no reason. and i am not required to wear a name tag or pieces of flair. which at my last job i was. srsly.
and it was at a museum
someday i am going to take it over and fix it. hopefully sooner than later

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"the painkillers are better even than high fashion and good coffee." - barkstonwill

Christ on bike, it'd be illegal to pay you so little in the UK. How on earth can you even manage to live? I'd leave and quickly...

i dont have a degree. i am not going to get paid any more anywhere else

i want the job at jc penney selling shoes. $7.25 an hour and 3% commission on men and women's shoes, 4% on kids, and 2% on athletic shoes
i would make a bit of money
but the girl who interviewed me makes me nervous
she did not ask me any important questions, and i felt like she was not understanding anything i was saying
she looked at my resume and saw i used to work at an IMAX, and she was like, "oh.. do they have popcorn there?"
and that was the extent of the discussion of previous experience

she asked me what i'm studying in school and i said "history"
and she said "what do you do with that?"
so i said i want to run a museum.
she started talking about how boring it is to work in the juniors department and shoes are better but then she just trailed off and was like "huh...i'm still wondering what you do with a history degree?"

it was really strange.
i'm nervous

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"the painkillers are better even than high fashion and good coffee." - barkstonwill

lol for some reason i have been saying this a LOT lately, well "christ on A bike" is usually what i say but anyway that's not what this post is about. well it is a little bit, but then i go on to say that so anyway i've been saying this a lot and my mother, bless her dear heart, tried to pick it up from me but accidentally said "christ on a stick!" instead and i laughed so hard.

That does sound like a really weird interview.

However, I'm sure if it were me and I got the job I would take it haha.

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oh i would definitely take the job.

i am just worried i won't get it because she didn't ask me any pertinent questions
she had like 4 other people to interview
its hard to sound qualified when the questions you are asked are so ridiculous

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"the painkillers are better even than high fashion and good coffee." - barkstonwill