cursedayesha

[cursedayesha]

a list of jobs that i have had.

this is a list of every single job i have ever had throughout my life.

1. lets start with what i consider was my very first job. when i was 8 years old my mum would pay me to pluck the grey hairs out of her hair. she would pay me five cents per hair. i easily made a lot of money doing this. i have extremely vivid memories of plucking my mothers grey hairs behind the counter of the convenience store that she ran and which we were also living in at the time. we slept on mattresses that were stacked on top of milk crates and used a bucket and tap to shower.

2. Video Ezy. this job could be considered as my real first job. it was the first job i had where i had to get a tax file number. it was june of 2006 and i was in year 7. my sister was working there at the time and got me the interview with the manager/owner. its honestly concerning that he employed a girl in year 7. i was running the whole shop alone on some shifts. i got paid $5.50 per hour. this job really had an impact on me, my interests that i still have to this day were formed here. i worked at Video Ezy from year 7 to year 10, then i had to leave because i was moving houses out of the area, dvds and blu rays were also dying out at the time so the owner closed the business down soon after.

3. Hungry Jacks. we move to an old 2 bedroom unit on a highway that was across the road from a hungry jacks. i worked there for a total of 3 weeks. this job was way too intense for 15 year old me. and the other people that worked there freaked me out. there was nothing about this job that i liked hence why i quit. i had to scrub some of the worse toilets, announce orders through a microphone and run the drive through counter like every order was some life or death emergency that had to be completed in 120 seconds. i have huge respect for the teenagers that work in jobs like this. i could never clearly.

4. Waitressing at my aunties filipino karaoke restaurant. this job made me realise how disconnected i am from my heritage. i would do friday and saturday shifts and get paid $10 an hour. i worked at this job when i was in year 10-11. id catch 2 trains on the way home and smoke cigarettes on the platform.

5. Wonka showbag stand at the easter show. I worked the wonka showbag stand for the 2 weeks the easter show was open. i did 10 hours shifts and i think i had one day off out of the whole 2 weeks. when i got paid they accidentally deposited the payment twice so i got paid double the amount i was supposed to. i never sent the money back either.

6. Handbags and accessories at sydney city myer. i got this job as a christmas casual the year i finished highschool. it taught me what a rort boxing day sales really are. there are no actual ‘sales’. it was all pre-ordered stock that was sold at its full price but marked and advertised as a sale. it also taught me that i never want a job in retail. standing in ballet flats for 10+ hours a day, i won’t.

7. Call Centre charity fundraising. i started this job the year after i finished highschool and worked there for about a year and half. it paid $18 base rate an hour, min 20 hours per week and you got to choose your own roster. but god, the work was rough, cold calling people from numbers popped out of some random generator trying to sell raffle tickets for a charity. i cant believe people actually donate money this way, literally giving their credit card details to some stranger on the phone. i dont know how i survived that long or made any sales for that matter. i met so many people here. it was also the place where i met my first boyfriend.

8. Admin for a freight company. just me and two other girls plus the creep manager in a tiny office.

9. another call centre job but for selling products that were advertised on tv. why do I keep doing this to myself? i can’t even be bothered explaining how much i hated this job. i worked a shift on new years eve and customers were calling at midnight.

10. Admin for a finance company. dont ask me what the company actually did, i wouldnt be able to tell you and i worked there for a year and half. the people here were obsessed with after work drinks, it was my job to push a trolly of drinks and hand them out across the whole floor at 4pm whilst everyone was still working. i was going out for drinks every night. the company eventually merged with another company and half the staff got laid off. but i was rehired by the new company for my next job.

11. IT support for a finance company. i think i should have stayed at this job a little longer, sometimes i think back and feel i left prematurely. i really meshed with the people here compared to where i went to.

12. IT support for westfields. this was the start of my demise. amongst other things that were happening at the time.

13. IT support for an NGO. ostracised for a month before i decided to quit whilst crying to the hr manager. ugh, the shame.

14. Admin for a plumbing company. yet another creep manager, I called him out on my way out and he didn’t pay me my last wage.

15. Call Centre for meal kit company. this was the point in my life where i was truly getting too old for this shit. i lasted a few weeks before I just stopped turning up. they called my emergency contact.

16. Reception at a brothel on parramatta road. this job is a whole book in itself. my brain has definitely been rewired from this experience.

17. Community centre in western sydney. this was work experience so i guess its not an actual job. i ‘worked’ here for three months and didn’t get paid. the whole place was basically run by students. extremely chaotic.

18. Youth Refuge in the city. loved this while it lasted.

19. Cleaner. Did 3 x 2 shifts cleaning a gay guys apartment in kings cross. i was never any good, im surprised he even booked me to come back after the first shift.

20. Women’s Refuge. another rewiring experience. worked here for almost 5 years. just realised that is the longest i have stayed at one job. reflection tba.

21. domestic violence service. a big girl job? where i am now. im not sure about it though. 22?

[cursedayesha]

friday 9th may 2025.

the week from hell ? (dramatic)

this week has been absolute helllllllllllll. everything that i set out to do this week i did. not. do. i booked into pilates 3 x this week and have cancelled every class. i also took a sick day from work and skipped my dentist appointment. i also have not completed any life admin that i need to do like do an online order for work clothes and makeup that i desperately need to refill.. honestly its pathetic that I struggle to complete simple and what should be enjoyable tasks. what the fuck is wrong with me honestly. my diet has also gone to shit. such a failure of a week. although i did weigh in at 67.5 kilos which is the lowest i have been in almost 2 years. i am 2 days late on my period and for the past 3 days my back and stomach have been killing me. moving has been so painful.

now its friday night and i’m writing this in bed whilst drinking diet coke from the can and watching little women. Nic is on his way home bringing me kfc. my life is actually. so good.

[cursedayesha]