An Update on MightyFalcon

So, I haven't posted anything in over a year. I've been meaning to for some time now, but have either forgot or, haven't had any motivation to, till now.

This post will basically be about my real life experiences in the past year, and maybe a bit about the future.

I'll first go back to when I was still in High School, senior year. It was pretty easy in reality, but my grades certainly did not reflect that. All of High School really, I only did what I needed to, to get by. I had no motivation to do any real hard work on any assignment. There were a select few things, that inspired me in English to express myself, but other then that I didn't care that much. I knew as long as I graduated, I would be fine. C's were just fine with me. I did a lot of day dreaming, a lot of thinking, a lot of philosophizing, but it wasn't usually about what was being talked about in class. My grades were definitely not one of my biggest priorities, but still, I did learn a lot. There was a certain maturation process that did happen the last year of high school. I don't really know what it was. As far as non-academic things in High School, there was just The Aaron Lecheler Fan Club. A lot of fun times were had. Though I am disappointed that we didn't get in the year book. I remember I made a poster, and hung it in various places in the school. I remember last seeing it in the silent study hall room. I don't know whatever happened to it. I hung fliers everywhere too, which to me, was hilarious. I stuck it in the most random locations. On the pillars in the cafeteria, all over the hallways, over other advertisements, in the bathrooms, on the marker boards in teacher's rooms. I still have the sign up sheets for it that were used on the days where people signed up for co-curricular activities, I know we hit the 100 mark. I loved how we had a certain professional look we had to it. We even had teachers join. Hell, even the bus approved. It was great. I'd say the ALFC was the highlight of my high school experience.

Looking back on it all, it wasn't that bad. Do I sometimes wish I could go back and do things differently? A little bit. In the fact that, I wish I had been a bit more sociable. It was but one rite of passage we young people take in the early stages of our adult life. There would be more to come.

After I graduated, I really wanted to get a job right away. Well,.. that didn't happen. I procrastinated a bit. And I got really sick a couple of times, they through me off big time. I got a pretty nasty ear infection that lasted 2 weeks, along with a couple migraines. Through the couple first months nothing that exiting happened. After that point, I finally sent my first resume into walmart for the first time. Walmart had been a place where I thought would be good for me. It's somewhat close, and my mom had all ready been working there. It was away from the fast food industry, which is something I'm trying hard to avoid. I never got a response from them within the 60 days that they said they would. At the time, walmart was doing a remodel of the store, I figured it was part of the reason. I never sent in my resume to anywhere else. For that next month or so, I pretty much just gamed. My sleep schedule was so messed up. I wasn't going to bed till like 5-6am and not waking up till 4-5pm. It was pretty crazy. I was uber lazy. Then at a certain point, I sent my resume to a bunch of places, Target, Ace Hardware, Hanson's IGA, Woodmans, Dollar Store and also Walmart again. It wasn't long after I sent my resume back to walmart again, I got called to go in for an interview. I was so excited. I could finally get off my ass and do something. I prepared myself as much as I could for the interview that was going to take place. I looked up a bunch of help videos and tips online. Going into it I felt really good. I was ready to take on whatever question they were going to throw at me. When I first sat down with my interviewer, I was pumped. I don't remember the first question exactly, but I knew I answered it pretty well. Then things kind of went down hill.. She started asking me pretty much the same question over and over again, just phrased differently. I got a little scared. I didn't want to just say the same thing again and again. So it took me a bit of time before I answered her. I was having a bit of a breakdown. But I did the best I could. The interview I remember only last about 15-20 minutes, and only asked me like 10 questions. I thought I did horrible. She said they would contact me again if they wanted to set up a second interview. I really didn't think they would, but to my surprise they did. The next day, I got called up and the second interview was set to go. This interview was the complete opposite of how the first one went. Going into it, I was pretty nervous. I thought they were going to ask me the same questions again, and I didn't know how I was going to handle differently then before. But luckily, they didn't and I pretty much owned. I did awesome. Afterward, I was pretty confident I was going to get the job. The job they told me I was applying for was the position of Stockman. One who returns karts to the store, as well as help customers carry out large items, such as TV's and furniture. I was willing to take anything they would have offered me. Later, I did indeed get the job, and there were a couple more meetings to get paperwork signed, and a urine test to see if I was a druggy. I passed everything, and I've been working there for the past 5ish months doing 32 hour weeks.

The job itself is pretty easy, but in the easiness itself, it becomes hard. It's incredibly boring, and you're mind has a tendency to think all the time. You do the same tasks over and over again. Going down this row of kart corrals, then return them, then the next.. Especially doing it over a 9 hour stretch, sometimes I feel like I'm going insane. But I get through it.

Well there you have it, all the above was basically what I've been doing in my life on a very simple level. There's a lot more in depth things I could get into, but I'll save that for future postings.