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Written By Tao on vendredi 11 octobre 2013 | 14:55

I applied to begin night classes at KU. I was accepted, then learned that KU had no degree paths available at night. Coming from Los Angeles, where every university had the option, I was unprepared. I would have to go to school during the day, which meant I would have to do something about my work schedule.


The mapping company was open to the idea of me taking classes during the day and rearranging my work schedule. They kept saying, "You'll have to go to part-time." But when I asked what that meant, they didn't know. How would my salaried position convert to hourly? They'd have to get back to me on that. I was accepted for the fall semester and registered for classes, but they still hadn't determined my compensation package. I had to take vacation time to attend the first day of class. I went to work and said, "This needs to be finalized in the next two days." I had proposed a 40-hour schedule that involved me working late every evening and working all day on Saturdays. They had rejected it. Now they came to me and said I would be limited to a maximum of 29 hours per week. They computed the cash value of my benefits, added that to my salary, then divided by 52 weeks, then divided by 29 to determine my new hourly rate.


I felt like one of those poker players who has to pretend like he hasn't just been handed the deal of a lifetime. I was going to work 29 hours to get what I used to work 40 hours to get. I was receiving a 38% raise.


Two days after I accepted their offer, they must have figured it out, because they came to me and said, "Or, if you prefer, we can do the schedule you originally proposed." I said no thanks. Management hated my guts for the rest of the time I worked there.


I started school. I went to my first class and told myself, "There's no pressure. All you have to do is graduate. Grades don't matter." Leaving my first class I told myself, "Unless you want to go to graduate school."


I had to travel with the company's biggest jerk (and at that company, that was a title that was hard to claim) because everyone else had been their long enough to know him and refuse the assignment. I used the opportunity to travel to New Mexico to get new counties, including Los Alamos, a tiny county I had not visited even though I'd been to all its surrounding counties.






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