Working comes with a catch

If there was one time of the week I had always looked forward to, it was Friday nights. Well, it still is but for now I'm extremely limited to them until after Christmas. The reason for this being I actually got the job at Marks & Spencer where I did that work placement. It was only three weeks ago where I had concluded the work placement and already I'm back there! Good news, right? Well, it came with a catch and that catch being weekends only and I'm starting as early as 7 in the morning on Saturday and 10 for Sunday. This right there almost entirely shuts down my weekend evening plans as while Friday nights are out of the question for a while, I can at least still have a bit of time on Saturday under the condition that I get back home at midnight

Don't get me wrong, I'm still very happy that I am working with a paid job now but to lose out on my favourite time of the week is admittedly a bummer but at least it's for a good cause. Hell, I had tried to look at all the advantages such as still having Thursday and Saturday to go to The Hotel California and anywhere else but Friday is really its night with it being the busiest out of the three as well as knowing many that go there exclusively then. Other bright side being able to save more money but even when I look at them, right now I'm just back at home sitting in front of my laptop on a Friday night which actually feels depressing.

Since making regular trips outside the house for Fridays, I've made excellent progress with my social life and it's really been some of the best I've done with my whole life yet (probably even one of the best ever for me) so for it to be off for a while does make me feel left out. However, I still have other days where I can go out somewhere and my best days are Wednesdays and Thursdays with no work the following day for them as well as Saturday for a bit. With that I can still go to the same places that I enjoy.

Looking at that, though, it does make me think that my Friday nights out have become too much of a comfort zone for me and now it's time to break it as I have no other choice. I'm not the only one who's having to be back at home right now since others will have to work early in the morning as well. It's just one life responsibility that I have to take. While my contract with M&S is due to end on the first week of January, there is that chance of them renewing it thus keeping me on which will actually be good but would mean even longer times away from these nights. However, maybe this is the start of a new change for me. It could be that my weekend antics could be over and I'll only have a few hours out and would only have a full night if I happen to have a holiday booked.

That said, I think I'll still try and go out on Friday but like Saturday it would have to be short and having to leave early and Friday will be an earlier leave for me. I don't see the point of being at the Cali for two hours and then only be there for another half hour when the whole place opens so maybe I'll see how it goes when they open the rest at 9 as opposed to 10 and hopefully feel I have at least had a bit of time to enjoy myself on a Friday.

As much as I hope to still have other plans to have some social life, I'm still going ahead with stating more availability to work at other times at M&S so if they want me in at any time between Monday and Friday, they're more than welcome to ask me in and overtime means more pay and if I heard correctly about their system, the overtime I've done can actually give me time off my normal shifts so here's hoping I can at least go ahead with a plan or two that I had in mind later on the year but had to drop it due to work. If not, oh well, I'll just have to roll with it but at least right now I'm getting something out of it.

Lastly, let's not forget about money. While it's only slightly above minimum wage, that with DLA I get as well as claiming Working Tax Credit (or rather I should be as I need to find out more since hours per week could be tricky this time with getting it) so all of those together and the money I have in my bank account right now means it won't be too long off until I can get a new laptop which is something I've been wanting to get for a while now. Afterwards, I'll have money to spend more than enough for Christmas shopping and after that I'll see about making plans to go to at least two or three Comic Con events as well as a festival or two that I want to attend. So things will look up form hereon.