Well, *Losmios posted a journal illustrating a day in her life and asked for others to do the same, so I thought I would oblige. Granted, my life is nothing to shout about... and since today's my day off and I did nothing of interest today, I'll write about an average work day of mine instead.

Well, I have a job now that requires me to get up stupidly early. Well, stupidly early for me, anyway. I'm the kind of person who used to stay up until 2am on a normal night, but now I have to be in bed by 10:30pm, tops. It feels like I'm in elementary school again! Anyway, I set my cell phone alarm to 6am, usually. 5:30am is usually better, but I'm lazy and like the extra half hour of sleeping in!

Depending on how well I slept, I'll hit the snooze button once or not at all, which gives me an extra ten minutes of lying in my ridiculously comfy bed. Then I have to get up, and within fifteen minutes be ready and out the door by at least 6:30am. It's a twenty minute walk to work, and giving myself a bit of lee-way is always good. I'm paranoid about being late!

I work in a grocery store, and it's there that I handle all the pricing and signage and sales and price changes and stuff that happen. I start the day by doing a walk around the store to see if there are any new displays the managers/stockers put up the day before that need signs. That usually takes about ten minutes or so before I'm back in my office printing the signs, shelf tickets, sale signs, whatever in order to make sure that the pricing on the shelf is consistent with what's in the computer.

This goes on throughout the entire day, in addition to all the other things I have to do. Each day is different depending on how close it is to Sunday, since that's when all the weekly sales change and I have to be in an hour earlier to hang up all the signs (which takes HOURS, ugh!!).

If I find all my Sunday Prep stuff is finished for the day, then I have time to do some telxoning, which is using a little hand-help UPC(barcode) scanner to scan the UPC's on the products and then type in what the price on the shelf says the product costs. When I'm done doing a specific section (bakery, deli, produce, certain aisles, etc.) then I upload it to the computer. It then takes the shelf prices I inputted and compares them with the price on the computer file. This tells me where there are inaccuracies with the shelf pricing which I can then go and fix. Because if the prices on the shelf are wrong, then the customer gets the product for free, and we don't want that, do we?

On top of telxoning and making sure the signage and shelf pricing is correct, I also have to sort shelf tickets and price changes for next Sunday (sorting them by aisles and departments so it's easier to hang them), handle the discontinued items and new items that come in each day, add and delete new items from the system as my managers want, fix any problems the cashiers notice with pricing or information, and so many other things as well. Sometimes I manage to get things done in time, sometimes I end up with a backlog of tons of things to do.

I'm supposed to get three breaks a day, two coffee breaks (15mins) and one lunch break (30mins), but that hardly happens anymore. Most of the time I only get my one 30 min break, I'm rushing around so much.

Round about 3:30pm I get off work. Sometimes I pick up some groceries while I'm there (10% employee discount ftw!), sometimes I just head home. Once I do get home things are pretty standard; if I don't have any plans, I usually spend the time surfing the web or playing random computer/PS2 games until my 10:30pm bed time. If I do happen to have plans, then I go and do them, obviously... if it's having dinner with my sweetie, or going over to a friend's house for some gaming, or going wall climbing, etc. etc...

That's pretty much it. Not as thorough as *Losmios's entry in terms of a minute by minute play, but this is an average day thing, not the day I've had today. Today is highly unusual; I did laundry, vacuumed, and cleaned my room, oh my! When does that ever happen?!


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I decided to try this wonderful CSS journal style which you can download from the very talented *ceara right here: [link]

I'm still trying to work out some of the kinks, so if you see some things wrong or looking funny don't worry about it too much. I'll get the hang of it soon!

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