Day one-hundred-thirty-six

It's one of those days where it's so hot that it just saps your energy. At least I can work in the digital room with the air conditioning, though not for much longer.

We've been able to stay ahead on our work, which is nice, but with days like this, it's hard to stay motivated. I pray that we (especially myself) would stay motivated to finish the day.  There's been just enough to keep busy, but we're plugging along.

Today, I did something I had not yet done in the three months I've been working here. Today was the first time I've had to deal directly with a customer. It was no big deal. He had come to pick up an order of thousands of labels for bottles of sex pills (no kidding, I've packed these very same labels before; this time, they totaled 80,000) and I had to rush to pack them. Then, to help the receptionist, I had to load them up in his car.

As a minor aside, if you looked like either member of the couple on the labels, you wouldn't need the pills, but anyway…

When I trained to work in the pharmacy, I deliberately chose a closed-door facility so that I wouldn't have to deal with customers or patients. By the time I had started, my brother and both of my sisters had been working in retail, and all three had made it clear that dealing with customers is pretty much the worst part. I think one of the things I like most about my job is that I only have to deal with co-workers and the occasional FedEx driver. I don't have to answer customer questions, I don't have to address customer complaints, I just need to make sure the work I do is done on time and done correctly. Good day or bad, I leave it behind and pick it up again the next workday.

I'm not thinking as much about changing jobs as I was not too long ago. First of all, my attitude about working here is starting to change for the better, and that's answered prayer, honestly. Secondly, there's not much in the way of jobs at the moment. I've been checking every so often to see what's out there, and it's not much. The job I have now meets my needs and is close to home. That's better than a lot of people can say, or what I could say for myself before mid-February.