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Sometimes I feel like I only ever post around here when I’m having trouble. Sorry for being a downer.
Anyway, I’ve been having a problem lately. About a week after I first met with my pastor to talk about converting, I left my old job at a contact centre to pick up my “usual” career, cooking. I now work for a major hotel about 45 minutes by bus from my house as a line cook (an occasionally in banquets) while I work on completing the Red Seal program.
However, this has created an unusual problem for me. At the contact centre, I could be relatively assured of having at least one weekend day off per week, either saturday or sunday, and it’s my understanding that, circumstances otherwise forbidding, a Saturday Evening mass can fulfill one’s Sunday obligation.
However, with the new job, the schedule is erratic, and weekends are rare. I’ve had the last two sundays in a row off, but those were the first saturdays OR sundays I had off since starting work for Hilton. I haven’t seen Fr. Paul in a good long time, now, nearly two months, since our last meeting, which was only our second. I want to go back to see him, but I’m somewhat afraid he’d be judgemental.
And also, this career isn’t especially conducive to faith. Nothing about the craft is inherently sinful, but the schedules are inherently poor. This is a service industry; the work exists when there are people to demand it… weekends and holidays being the absolute busiest. I’ll even be working Christmas this year… and can expect to do so for as long as I remain with Hilton.
I guess I’m just sort of struggling on how to balance that. I want to remain at the Hilton until August, at the very least, so that I can complete the next portion of my Red Seal. I just… don’t want to have to ask for special treatment, I guess you could say. Christmas is a religious holiday, and this city is quite religious by default (highest number of churches per capita in all Canada, I’m told), so it sort of feels like “asking too much” to start asking for days like Christmas and Easter off, especially when those days are almost universally busy.
Anyway, I’ve been having a problem lately. About a week after I first met with my pastor to talk about converting, I left my old job at a contact centre to pick up my “usual” career, cooking. I now work for a major hotel about 45 minutes by bus from my house as a line cook (an occasionally in banquets) while I work on completing the Red Seal program.
However, this has created an unusual problem for me. At the contact centre, I could be relatively assured of having at least one weekend day off per week, either saturday or sunday, and it’s my understanding that, circumstances otherwise forbidding, a Saturday Evening mass can fulfill one’s Sunday obligation.
However, with the new job, the schedule is erratic, and weekends are rare. I’ve had the last two sundays in a row off, but those were the first saturdays OR sundays I had off since starting work for Hilton. I haven’t seen Fr. Paul in a good long time, now, nearly two months, since our last meeting, which was only our second. I want to go back to see him, but I’m somewhat afraid he’d be judgemental.
And also, this career isn’t especially conducive to faith. Nothing about the craft is inherently sinful, but the schedules are inherently poor. This is a service industry; the work exists when there are people to demand it… weekends and holidays being the absolute busiest. I’ll even be working Christmas this year… and can expect to do so for as long as I remain with Hilton.
I guess I’m just sort of struggling on how to balance that. I want to remain at the Hilton until August, at the very least, so that I can complete the next portion of my Red Seal. I just… don’t want to have to ask for special treatment, I guess you could say. Christmas is a religious holiday, and this city is quite religious by default (highest number of churches per capita in all Canada, I’m told), so it sort of feels like “asking too much” to start asking for days like Christmas and Easter off, especially when those days are almost universally busy.