I had another eight hour shift today and it was so much more pleasant than yesterday’s as the colleague I worked with created a much more relaxed work environment. It’s still not a job that I’ll ever be enamored with, but a lot of my red flags were taken down today. What I dislike the most is that the work is much more about cleaning and making coffee than it is about cashiering. Having spent the summer cleaning in Dawson, I’d really rather not do that all winter, too. But now that I know that every shift won’t be like yesterday’s I feel I can breathe a little and just go with the flow until something else shows up.

One thing I am very worried about is getting a caffeine overdose. We serve organic fair trade Kicking Horse coffee and grind the beans freshly before every pot. The shiny beans are so fresh they are dripping with coffee oil. This coffee is good, better than Starbucks, maybe even the best drip coffee I’ve ever had. And it’s free for staff. As long as I bring my own travel mug, I can have as much of this amazing brew as I can stomach. It was hard not to partake tonight since I worked from 2PM to 10PM and try to avoid caffeine after noon! Tomorrow, though, I work 10AM to 2PM, so I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to soak up a couple of cups. 🙂 Kicking Horse’s dark roast has a great name, Kick Ass (LOL!), and a cup of it sure is going to make early mornings go by more smoothly.

Tomorrow, I will be working three hours with a colleague I haven’t met yet, and then one hour with the owner. That should be interesting. I’m looking forward to getting my schedule for the next few weeks so that I can start to get into a routine of sorts. There’s apparently a lot of Campbell River for me to explore! 🙂