I sat in lobby filled with flat screen television, each playing a channel that I haven't watched in a good year now. Since the fire, I haven't had any source of cable or television channels; I did however have Netflix to catch up on my favorite series like Supernatural, but I had to wait forever for the next season to hit the streaming network.
Speaking of streaming networks, did you know that Full Moon Pictures is starting their very own streaming? They were the ones that created the Puppet Master series and other B-Movie genres like The Evil Bong and many others. If I do plan to get a place along with some internet, I am most likely going to get that streaming series.
Anyway, I filled out my paperwork today to start at Suddenlink and I happen to browse over the hourly pay I will be receiving. I had to calculate it, but I found out that I would be making as much as I would have if I joined the Correctional Officers in Palestine TX. I will also be making more on the side with my part time Old Navy job.
I left my three year part time career at the Tyler Junior College Computer Lab to pursue a 2k a month salary at the prison in Palestine TX. I assumed that I was doing good to join such a demanding work force, but I had no idea what the job entitled. At first, I thought of the television shows that had a gaurd standing with shot gun in hand and telling prisoners what to do. However, I soon learned that the prisons in Texas are a little bit more chaotic than I pictured.
I witnessed in the unit I was working in, an inmate who had cat skins pinned on his wall. I learned later that the inmates could house pets and breed them in the prison itself. There was another inmate that would capture Black Widow spiders in a jar and would threaten to smash the jar of spiders at the feet of the gaurds. Truly a mad house.
Comparing that to sitting in a room filled with like minded people, getting breaks to vape and enjoying a cup of coffee at my station, you can imagine how much I praise God at the moment.
I respect those in law enforcement and those that work in the prison system, but it isn't a job for me. I am the type of person who likes to enjoy his day and help people. Prison is a place you do not want to work or to be in.
With benefits and pay, working in Suddenlink seems exciting and wonderful. I know I couldn't have worked in a call center when I was my past self. I thought of myself as too good for a call center and that I was a man of direction rather than a man that helps others.
In some way, and I am not certain if I should really put this much credit to the prison system, I feel like I died and was resurrected into a new life. Perhaps, I feel that there has been a change to the system. Yet, when I look over the things I am a part of, I realize that I conducting in what I wanted to avoid: Being homeless, working in a call center, spending time out in the open with people all around me.
The things I was trying to avoid has changed me, so it brings up the next question: Was I the one trying to avoid these things, or was it something more demonic that wanted to avoid the change from my former self into a beacon to the world?
--Night
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