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Two jobs, one decision..
18/f
Ok. SO. Currently I work at GameStop. I've been employed there for about 3 months now, and they have yet to give me more than ONE day a week. Now..being a senior in high school with no car and plans to attend college next year, I need more money than ONE day a week. So I applied at Home Depot. I got an interview tomorrow. Seeing as Home Depot pays $12.00 starting rate, I think it's a great opportunity. Now GameStop has recently started to give me more hours. Now that I got the interview at Home Depot, I feel that I'm basically going behind GameStops back. It's not that I want to quit GameStop, I want both jobs. But say I do get the Home Depot job..How do I explain to my GameStop boss that I have a second job but still want to keep this one? I'm feeling the extreme pressure on how to pay for future bills that include college, insurance, and possibly an apartment. I just want to be financially stable when I graduate high school. I'm basically writing this because I just need some one to talk to that's been through the same thing, or is currently in my situation. I don't know why I'm SO nervous about being in debt. I guess my whole question in this entire paragraph is, How do I explain to my GameStop boss that I still want to work there but I got an interview to work some where else? I want both jobs.
Thanks guys,
-One confused high school senior. =/
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Alright. First off, saving money from Game Stop and Home Depot won't pay for college. If thats why you're working, spend that extra time you would be doing a second job looking into financial aid with your parents help.
Secondly, you have a right to do whatever you want. Tell your manager that you're looking into a second job because you don't get enough hours at Gamestop.
Its really simple. You don't have to make a big deal of it, just ask your manager for some time to discuss your schedule one on one, and let them know that you want to make more money, and are considering a job offer you have from Home Depot.
Tell him you want to work out a schedule that lets you not have the jobs interfere. Ask your boss how many hours a week he wants you to work, and ask him if you can get a set schedule to work another job around. If your schedule changes every week for both jobs, it won't work. But if you can get one job to set fixed hours, you can go to the other job and say "This is my schedule, work around it."
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You can have two jobs at one time. It's no big deal. GameStop doesn't even need to know about it. Just work out your hours and your good to go. It's even better to have more than one job because you'll be getting more hours when combined.
And if you do have to choose, Home Depot...
it pays more
and plus you'll meet way hotter guys at a construction place than Nerds-Are-Us... no offense.
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You are not required in any way to talk to GameSpot before your interview at Home Depot.
So, go to your Home Depot interview and be positive, upbeat and your own wonderful self. Let them know you have another part-time job and be honest about how much time you are there, and how much time you are available to them. Be sales-pitchy and upbeat about it, but honest.
IF you get a job at Home Depot book a time to talk to your GameSpot manger and say ‘Look, I love you guys but I need more hours then I’m getting right now with you. I’ve got this job offer at Home Depot and I’d like to take it, unless you think there are more hours (and give them a number of hours you’d like to working in a week) for me. “ If your GameSpot manager says those number of hours AREN’T available to you, that’s fine, ask him if there are certain shifts or days he’d like you to keep open for him. For example, if you know you almost always booked for the Sunday shift at GameSpot, make sure Home Depot knows you aren’t available on Sundays.
If GameSpot or HomeDepot can give you all the hours you want in a week, then you might want to quit the place that can’t give you what you need.
I know it’s scary and stressful the first time you need to handle a situation like this, but they actually come up in the working world all the time. If someone at GameSpot gives you a really hard time about this, hold your head high and know they are just being an asshole. You have every right to chase the hours and income you need and enter into an agreement with an employer who will give you what you need, so don’t feel guilty.
The best thing you can do is be honest, and give your current employer a chance to provide you with what you need, either in number of hours, or in rate of pay.
Finally, a note about money: If you are a sensible, hard working and don’t buy lots of stupid shit, money will always be there. There won’t ever be quite as much as you’d like, but just stay sensible, and you won’t starve. So please, stop panicking about the transition into adulthood. It actually all comes on you rather slowly and steadily and you can grow and respond as the issues arise (like this one!). Being afraid of debt is a good thing: It should generally be avoided. Going into debt to spend spring break in Mexico or to buy a Wii is STUPID, but going into debt for your education, or a car, or a home is not the least bit stupid, and it’s damn near physically impossible for the majority of people not to carry some sort of debt when they are looking at those sorts of investments.
So chill. It’s not all coming down on you all at once. You’ll handle this fun little grown-up problem, and then the next one. You are doing just fine.
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