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As you may know, I have been frustrated at work with the lack of hours I have been getting. It's just not worth the time it takes to get ready in the morning and the gas to drive to West Des Moines and back to work for 3 hours. I am only making $7.50 and hour. With the new minimum wage increase coming up, I wasn't making more than minimum wage. That's just ridiculous. After finding out that our sales supervisor (whom I have become pretty good friends with) had found another job, I knew life at work was going to become intolerable. The manager has been hard to work with lately, with low sales and staffing problems, and luckily I have avoided her by getting scheduled mostly on her days off. Knowing that the sales sup. was leaving, I knew the manager would be even more crabby. I would apply for the now open position, but it requires working almost every weekend. I went home that day and emailed Brett my resume with some suggestions, and he tweaked it up for me and passed it along to his supervisor. I can't do his job because it requires experience or a college degree, neither of which I have. However, the call center downstairs is always hiring, and the rumor is that they hire a lot of college students, and with them going back to school, they are needing people to work while students are in class. I got a call on Tuesday from one of the managers in the call center, and after a fun game of phone tag, we set up an interview for today at 2pm. He asked me the usual questions (tell me about a time.... and how did you handle the situation... blah, blah, blah), and then had me sit with one of the guys on his team and listen to a couple of calls for about 10 minutes. We then went back to the cubicle where we did the interview, and he offered me the job!!!!! As long as the felony charge from when I murdered that guy last year doesn't show up on the background check (just kidding, everyone laugh), I will start as early as Wed. the 22nd. He said it could take anywhere from 3 days to 3 weeks for the background check to come back, so I may have to wait for the next training class to start in a couple of weeks if it doesn't come back on time. For the first couple of weeks, I will work the same hours as Brett as I go through classroom-style training. Mom was kind enough to take off of work for 6 weeks to take the boys to school and pick them up in the afternoon while I do this. Thanx Mom! After training I will work from 9:30am - 3pm, Monday through Friday, working every third Saturday from 9-1. I'll try to swing it so that I work the same Saturday as Brett and then boys can stay with Chris. I will take calls from people all over the country wanting to refinance their cars, homes, and credit cards, take their initial information and pass them along to the appropriate people. Brett works in the department that refinances homes, so I would be passing along some customers to him and his team. I will be making $11.25 an hour with paid time off and insurance benefits. I am very excited!!!!!