Good Morning PCS Nation!

Grab a snack & a seat 😁

I just want to update everyone on what's going on here in my real world and how it's affecting PCS Nation, which had been "pretty significantly" so far, but there's still hope. 😉

The new job is going wonderfully. I'm two weeks in and I'd guess I'm about 90% functional as an 'employee' and starting to move on to some 'managerial' training. They're having me cover some shifts and giving OT already, so that's good. And everyone there has been really cool and easy to work with.

If you missed it earlier in the week, I had a bit of a curveball thrown at me when I found out I'm moving at the end of this month on top of the new job. So here's the story on that...
I was heading out to do laundry on Monday and my landlord caught me on the porch, asked me if I had a few minutes and went inside and woke up his son to 'translate'.
I'm instantly like "Oh, boy...here we go. They're selling the house, I'm out, and everything comes apart now."
As it turns out I was mostly right. They are moving, but there's an apartment at the new house and he wants me to go with them to the new place. The rent is a little higher but it's a bigger apartment with a private entrance and includes a washer/dryer, and it's a way better neighborhood so now between the new job and the new house I will be completely out of the "ghetto", and half a mile closer to work.
Only potential downsides I see are the possibility that the internet connection up there sucks, which I'll deal with as it comes...and that it looks like the neighborhood is mostly suburban white folks, which I'll get used to eventually. 😏

The potential "downsides" surrounding how the job affects PCS Nation are a bit more dire, unfortunately.

First and foremost, this job is way different than sitting around in the basement of the hardware store watching it slowly go out of business for the past five years.
This job is on my feet all day and almost constantly working with customers from the minute I get there until the minute I leave, which creates two issues...One, that there's no way I can post content, much less take time to create it, during the times I'm at work like I used to do at the hardware store.
And two, that during those hours I am completely cut off from what's going on in the world outside the store, so I don't even have any source material to work with anyway.
On top of that, by the time I finish the day my brain & body are complete mush and I've just been heading home, eating dinner and hoping I don't wake up the next morning at my desk with my face in a plate of enchiladas. 😕
That seems like something that'll work itself out pretty quickly. I'm just getting tons of info thrown at me right now, and I haven't worked at a job this physically and mentally demanding for a long time.

Those things will likely sort themselves out after a few more weeks, but the inability to do anything on PCS Nation while I'm at work is a hard reality that I'll need to figure out how to work around.

There's one last little "selfish" thing that I want to add to this. I'm almost embarrassed to say it, but I'm becoming 'content'. The job is good, the move shows every indication of being good, and I'm not entirely sure due to my lack of experience with this particular human emotion, but I think I might be "happy".
And that's really, really, really bad for me as it relates to what I do on PCS Nation, because it means I have have to get out of work at the end of the day and purposely dive into some shit that's gonna make me mad in order to produce my typical content...and that's becoming an internal mental battle for me that I'm not doing well with so far, and still needs work.

Sooooo...that's where I'm at right now. As always I've answered no questions, and arguably made them all worse, so I guess there's that old PCS thread to hold onto.
I don't know what's going to happen in the short term, and can't really start formulating a plan for at least a few weeks, until I get moved in at the new house and see what I have to work with.

As far as PCS goes, I can't make any promises on anything in the near future except that I'm going to try my best to make this all work in a way that has value for you. I'm not going to actively encourage new subscribers for the time being, and if you are a paid subscriber and aren't comfortable with any of this, I'd certainly understand if you decided to 'opt out'. You can always come back later if you want to.

In a few weeks, after the move, if I don't see any opportunity to get things turned around quickly, I have a option where I can deactivate the collection service from charging your accounts temporarily, and I will do so, and keep it that way for as long as necessary if it gets to where I know I can't provide the value to you that I want to.

And that's pretty much that for now. Thank you for reading this long "update", and I hope you understand the things I've brought out and the situation that I/we are currently in, and that I'm doing my best to get this thing back together.

If you have any questions by all means drop them in the comments and I'll answer them all later in the day.
~G