Adrie Got the Job

Just wanted to say thanks for your prayers.  It must have been the Lords doing, because He knew how stressed I was about her working at Lagoon again.  With Ira being gone all the time and my work hours I just didn't have a clue how it would work out trying to get her to and from Lagoon every day.  In years past she has had friends who live nearby who worked with her and because she was under 16 she worked the day shift and could take the bus/frontrunner.  Now she has no local friends who work with her and she is 16 so she will work the night shift, and the lagoon shuttles and frontrunner don't run after the park closes.  She doesn't yet have her license, we are working on that...hopefully soon.  And even if she has her license she is afraid of driving the stick shift, which gets good gas mileage and would have to drive the gas hog.
With gas prices right now and 12 mpg, she would be looking at 4 gallons of gas per day, or around $13-$14 per day, just driving to and from lagoon.  That adds up fast when you are only making minimum wage!

So one day when she was at Lagoon training I hopped online and was looking for online applications at places she could work.  I went to the Newgate Mall website, found a few places hiring, but they were all just printable applications.  Then because of being there being disappointed Cinemark wasn't hiring I decided to see if the Megaplex was hiring.  The website didn't say if they were hiring, but there was an online application.  I decided to go ahead a fill it out for her.  A little tricky and I almost quit as there was like a 20 minute questioneer I had to answer as her, good thing I know her pretty well :)  It turns out they were hiring and my timing was perfect.  They had 6 positions to fill for concessions and during the week they were accepting applications, they recieved over 300.  The Director told them she went through those apps with a fine tooth comb and narrowed it down to only a few who were then interviewed and only 6 of those were hired, including Adrie.

Now I realize the Megaplex isn't exactly a dream job, but Adrie has been applying for jobs regularly ever since last September when she turned 16!  The economy is getting better but jobs are still hard to come by, even low paying jobs only teenagers would want.

She is super excited.  She had an orientation on Wednesday, which she probably should have rescheduled because she was ill and ended up throwing up while she was there (because she thought she was better and ate real food for the first time since Sunday).  She needs to get her food handlers permit on monday and she starts work on Wednesday.

If you all are really really nice to Adrie, she might just take you to a movie ;) She can take a guest to see a movie with her on Sundays- Thursdays for free as long as it's not brand new (over 10 days in the theater)  She also gets 30% off the concessions.  She can also attend some of the prescreenings for free, but she has to earn points in order to be able to bring guests. I have a feeling I'm gonna be seeing a lot of movies in the near future!