Job Hunting

I have been job hunting for almost four months.  It has been a very stressful time.  How am I going to make car payments, house payments, pay for food, electricity, water, etc..  I am about at the point that I will take anything short of flipping hamburgers.  I had a friend call and say that her husband needed some help in his job, would I be interested.  Of course, I said yes, what could I possibly say when I needed the job so bad.  Now let me tell you, I have cleaned housed, mowed yards, scrubbed toilets, so I was ready for some hard work.  She said I would be helping him in some bathrooms.

Well, I got there and the job was a restroom attendant for the women.  Now I know in the movies you always see an attendent in with the men, but I have never seen one in a ladies room. This was actually a bar in Arlington.  He handed me a bag and told me to stand in the bathroom, make sure the sinks were always dry.  I had various perfumes, mints, toothpicks, crazy glue for womens heals when they break and of course any female necessity you might need at any given time.

I swallowed my pride and went in that bathroom.  I handed out paper towels, sprayed, spritzed and wiped.  Still no tips.  Women do not typicaly bring enought money into the bar because they expect their drinks to be bought.  My bi questions was, where are you suppose to look when women come in?  If you look at them in the face they think you are trying to confront then.  If you look at their dress or shoes, they become upset as if you were trying to scope them out.  They stand in front of the mirror and rearrange their boobs.  Sometimes the boob comes flying out and the girl raises her dress to put the boob back on only to find out that that boob belongs to a man.  Women do not care about tipping.  They only care where you look and just so you are not looking at their man or girl friend.  So as the night wore on, I started to collect some change and the pot continued to grow, and grow and grow.

All I could think about was I can't so this.  I have a college degree and I have reduced myself to cleaning up after women in the bathroom.  I worked from 8 until 2.  It is an honest job and I should not have been embarrassed in the least, but I was just mortified.  My friend asked me if I wanted to do the job again, I told her I would have to think about it because I had such a hard time.  I did not as it turns out go back.  I was too embarrased that someone I knew would see me in the bathroom, but I have to say  I should probably think twice before I say no.  It is  like I said, good honest work.  I just could not do it.  I have nothing against anyone that does do it.

FYI I made $180.00 in tips that Saturday night.  And I said women don't know how to tip!!