So, as many people know(some may not), I waited to buy a smartphone for years...and by years I mean that when I was 18 (in 2007) many of my friends already had smartphones. I bought my first phone, a super cheap flip phone with no camera from Samsung.
When I got my first smartphone(a Droid Razr HD in 2013) I thought I was flying high....until I dropped it and it shattered. Luckily I had insurance on it so I got another one, which I had until I dropped that in 2015 and that one shattered.
I had the option of buying a blackberry(I had originally wanted one of those for YEARS because most of my family and friends had them when they were still really popular) but decided that I wasn't terribly willing to trade the screen size or the app store.
When my sister upgraded her 3+ year iphone 4 to an iphone6 she gave me her old phone which saved me about $175 in repairing my old smartphone.
Normally it's good but every now and again it's just terrible.
I found a SUPER old Blackberry Curve 8300(no wifi,ect.) that someone was giving away at a clothing swap so I got it and bought an $8 battery. Tried to use it for about a day before the trackball and everything else was just too much for me to translate and try and go back to.
I've got it on reserve incase anything happens to my iPhone before upgrade time.
I (as well as my whole family) can upgrade their phones in 2 weeks time but with the Iphone 6s coming out in two months, and with my eyes on the iphone 6 as well, I don't see why I would buy a $299 iphone 6 64GB phone(that is the storage that I want) and not wait for the release of the iphone 6s, where the original iphone6 will probably drop in price significantly. It helps that currently my phone is doing ok, and that we are moving and I need to focus my time, energy, and money into that, instead of what phone I should get. I wish that the stores actually had blackberry phones to play with but they just have the Samsung, LG, and Iphones.
Looking forward to CA but I've got a ton to do in the three weeks(approx.) before we move...
UPDATE AND TOPIC SWITCH
well now we've moved to CA and it's been almost two years from that move. A lot has happened. I have a job with the Post Office(one that I'm happy to have the income from but it's not enough of a draw to make me stay at the job if a nicer opportunity presented itself...soon)
I've been with the USPS for a year and a half...let's just say I now know why "going Postal" is a thing...it's because of Christmas and November with political season...luckily my first one was also my trial by fire because it was an election year so.....3 ft of political mail which we have to sort in by hand....OMG....
so i've been silently looking for a new job but recently I asked my station manager which phone I should use for him to be in touch with a potential job...an office job that has weekends and nights off and holidays off too....you know, a normal job....so apparently he took it upon himself to tell his boss(the PostMaster for all of where I live) and since I go to the same church as the guy and he knows me, he thinks it's ok to give me shit about it...ALL THE FREAKIN TIME! why don't i like my job here??
Here's a list: (all of this was included in the interview for the job so I knew what I was in for, but then again I didn't really KNOW)...
1. working overtime...a lot...I can work up to 12 hours(they don't like that at all now) but if a regular carrier needs help or someone gets sick, I can do a whole route(7:30-3:30 without help and then be expected to help out in whatever capacity until about 6)
2. Holidays...the USPS has an exclusive contract with Amazon because we need revenue and they need to get the packages to people....so they work us on Sundays now and most holidays...so every holiday except for Christmas and Thanksgiving...potentially July 4th too....we work(we=the new temp hires that dont have benefits or full time jobs and are technically on contract)
3. I work almost every single Sunday...I'm religious and go to church...well I went to church until this job and now I havent really been to a full service in about a year....just go get communion way early from the pastor and call it good...i have yet to be able to go to a night service on Saturdays because we work then as well and I work too late for that...
4. CHRISTMAS AND NOV...November came around last year and normally our work limit a week is 40 hours and anything over that is considered overtime....November that gets increased to 72 hours a week is the norm and anything past that is considered overtime...December rolls in and all hell breaks loose and you're just at the post office all day, every day until Jan. Management takes the limit of hours off...so 12-13 hour days 6 days a week, possibly 7?? you got it(you also just get one day off instead of two...i didn't realize that....)
generally they give you two days off but they're never on the weekends and if they are you savor them....but they're normally in the middle of the week so none of my friends who are still in the area can do anything because they have jobs and actually work during the week. hours can change so i can work collections which is only about 4 hours or I can work 10 hours....this week i'm only supposed to be working about 31 hours a week...it's a part time job that they treat as a full time job because the mail HAS to go out and be delivered...
so i'm looking for a new job that is full time and has benefits....i'm almost 29, have my Master's degree and am working part time for the post office....it's the most money I've ever made but I don't want to sacrifice family time and weekends and having a life for my job....
I would love to tell the post master all of this but the nicest way of putting this all into words is this job isn't for me...
my dad is retiring tomorrow(essentially June 5) so he'll be home more with mom and i'll be working...hopefully they'll be able to get stuff done around the house and relax when they go on vacation this week.
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