Part Time Job to Career
Why I Joined
I just wanted a part time job. I was going to school full time for Human Services, that’s all I wanted to do, just work part time. So I started as a PTF, and I was a PTF for 6 years, and when I started it was August 1998 and like I said, I wanted to be part time from then until December. It was Christmas season already and they worked me overtime, over 40 hours a week every week from the time I started until December and I was taking a whole load of courses at school. All I did was sleep, eat, go to work, hurry up and shower. It was so hard to do and I did not want to be a career employee or anything, but I stayed because the benefits were good, the money was good, and I was making really good money. I had three kids and I was on food stamps before I started at the Post Office for awhile. I was so poor, even though I had full time jobs, I was making minimum wage or a little bit more and it was tough raising the kids and everything, but I stayed.
AUTHOR NAME: Cyndi Miller
