Hey there Moonrays!
I meet a lot of people at work, and sometimes things happen that stick with you.
A regular (as in; he comes by to bet on horses every week like clockwork) approached me this past weekend, wanting to compliment me on my ‘routine’ at work. He grasped my hand and gushed on about how I am always so ‘calm and collected’ when doing my job. He mentioned that he had been observing me as I work, and while that is slightly uncomfortable, it’s not really a surprising thing. A lot of people like to stand around watching us work while waiting for their food or standing in line. I don’t really understand why, but that’s the facts, and there’s nothing really to do about it.
Now, I appreciate praise about my work, it makes me feel good to hear that I’m doing a good job and people notice. The trouble I have with this kind of praise though is that the person giving it doesn’t know me at all. I have found that most of our customers gravely underestimate both my age and my work experience. For reference, these are two recent pictures of me in and out of work (not very good ones, I pulled them from my Instagram).
You can judge for yourself, but I am often told that I look much younger than my almost 31, and people who come into the diner usually place me somewhere between 20 and 25, some even lower. I have been told by people that they believed me to be under 18… To be honest, it’s not even flattering anymore, just kinda annoying.
However, keeping this in mind, they obviously don’t think that I can have been working for too long, and that’s the thing that bothers me the most. I have been working in this field of work for close to 6 years, it would be stranger if I didn’t have a routine for how to handle my work by now. While I do appreciate the compliments about my work, I really do, I’m worried that they are based on false assumptions. Maybe I’m reading too much into this…
Moving on he then went on to tell me that I should run my own business for some reason. While I assume that he was talking about a business like the one I’m working at, a diner or small store or something similar, the thought of a business of my own is not actually a new one. I have thought quite a bit about it over the past year or two, and have done a fair share of research on possibilities and procedures. The main reason for this is because I wanted to establish a business to put behind the eventual publishing of my book(s), but so far I have not taken the plunge. And I probably won’t anytime soon, there is still a lot of research to be done on the topic. I will probably re-visit the idea when one of my books get closer to completion, but we’ll have to see.
Anyway, I hope you have a wonderful day, and stay crazy!
Luna Sky