Today I went to 4 places regarding my potential second job. It's a question - I kind of need it (to cover the trip costs), but at the same time, I'm just not feeling it. I understand, maybe these are excuses, maybe it's just laziness, but I really don't want to work 80 hours a week. Maybe the fact that my parents aren't pushing me, I have enough money, and I'm feeling a bit under the weather plays a role, although I definitely won't cover the trip with just one job. Anyway, if something works out somewhere, then we'll see.
Today was the busiest day I've ever seen - 201 customers! Most likely, it's related to the closing of the advertising convention, so everyone came to us. On the other hand, the Microsoft convention started, and some Russians even came in. Naturally, I took care of them more than the others, they're our people! They left their business cards, saying, 'call if you decide to.' Now I'm full of anticipation, what if?))) At the end, the day was spoiled by 3 moments. When you clock out, if tips come into the register, they are distributed among those remaining. Therefore, they often rush everyone to 'clock out.' Today David was the manager (the one I dislike the most), and he forced me to 'clock out' when there was still a large table (=> big tips), and the head waiter said that this table was 'for him.' Then I put a plate on the tablecloth, David immediately said it was clean and I would dirty it, yet he went to eat on the tablecloth himself. In short, I wasn't very happy with that today.
Actually, subconsciously comparing Atlanta and Syktyvkar, Atlanta and Moscow, you come to a few conclusions. In the first case, Atlanta definitely wins; I understand people who have only been to Syktyvkar and came here, it seems like paradise to them. Many people ask me - why don't you go anywhere? Because in Moscow I can go anywhere and it will be much more pleasant and interesting for me than here. Compared to Moscow, Atlanta is a huge village, calm, quiet, but a village. It lacks that 'fire,' that 'pulsing vein.' Live in Moscow, feel its spirit, and this Atlanta will be like Zimbabwe to an American. People here have almost everything, you work for 2 months and buy yourself a new car, you don't have to prove anything to anyone, just live like everyone else. For me, it's better in Moscow - you have nothing, you can't do anything easily, you have to hustle and spin. People here are too 'full' of the good life, they practically don't need anything, they don't strive for anything. But try to survive on a pension back home, try to live on a scholarship for more than a week? They just won't understand you here. And those who stay here, as I understood, are either those who have little future in Russia (to put it mildly, those who don't bother with studies, work, etc.), or those who purposefully want to leave Russia (marriage, out of complete adoration for America, some dissatisfaction, inability to realize themselves). Maybe I'm wrong and even mistaken, but this is my opinion, I've expressed it. Anything can happen, maybe life will show the invalidity of my conclusions about the cities, maybe on the contrary, it will prove that I was absolutely right. We'll see, we'll read these notes in 10 years, maybe I'll be Nostradamus?
