The past few days have been absolutely wild up here. I don’t know if I’ve ever been as productive, or as busy. The sheer volume of work that came at me on Monday was staggering. I was trying to train a new person for one job, that I don’t usually do, while trying to make sure that my two full time jobs kept going. There were periods during the day that I just stood in the middle of the office and spun in circles trying to decide which phone to answer first as my two lines were ringing non-stop and the front desk phone and my co-workers phone were both holding a ringing marathon. Weirdly enough I just love all that’s going on here and even though it’s really crazy it’s somewhat energizing.
There are down sides to all this though in the form of the crash that I know is very likely to come. There are times when I wonder what this is all going to get me, where is this going to take me in life’s journey? Somewhat depressingly I sat with one of our Kitchen workers today at supper and we started talking about wages. This guy puts out sandwiches and baking and keeps the lunch room clean and he’s making around $80,000 a year! The incredible thing is that because this is his last year of work before he retires he took a pay cut in coming here. He used to be a janitor at another camp and was making between $100,000 – 120,000 a year. I’m making what I consider to be pretty good money but it’s nowhere near the lunchroom guys!
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