Time For A Change In 2018,I Miss The NORTH Dartmouth Mall

70s/80s North Dartmouth Mall logo

Vintage North Dartmouth Mall sign

80s/90s North Dartmouth Mall logo

Mid-80s/early-90s North Dartmouth Mall sign

I have not written in this blog for the entire year of 2017. Why? There were a lot of things that happened that year,so much so that I am considering making changes in this year of 2018. First major change I plan to make is my job situation. Since 2014,I have hated my job at the Dartmouth Mall more now than ever before. Maybe it was because I had to sleep over at the mall a couple of times there,which was something I was not comforatble with. I am not blaming my bosses nor my co-workers for this. I am blaming myself for being like this. Sometimes in one's life things change and they become not the same anymore....this is how I am feeling right now. The Dartmouth Mall to me is not the same mall I loved going to from the 80s to my days as a dishwasher at the then-open Ruby Tuesday North Dartmouth. That was the NORTH Dartmouth Mall and I miss that. Today's Dartmouth Mall does not appeal to me anymore,a lot of stores that I liked shopping at are no longer there and fye will be closing at the end of February of this year. I rarely shop at the Dartmouth Mall anymore and my dream of working at the Dartmouth Mall has now been more of a nightmare than ever before. Working at the Dartmouth Mall was a childhood dream of mine and that dream has come true for 23 years (15 at RT,8 at the DM). For me,it is time that I would leave the Dartmouth Mall and work somewhere else but I will not do that until the weather gets a bit warmer and during my vacations I will start job searching. Every winter I get mad,freak out,stress out and have a bad attitude and that is not cool not only with me,but it is not cool with my family,my bosses and my co-workers. This job has stressed me out more than Ruby Tuesday during Saturdays. We hire people and then they last a month,a week or even 2 days there,it is RIDICULOUS!  I must do something,I must get a job where 1) I do not have to shovel snow. 2)I do not have to work on Thanksgiving  3) Have chemistry with co-workers since chemistry among my co-workers here is lacking 4)I don't have to constantly look at the weather every 5 minutes and 5)I don't have to worry about waking up at 5am just to get ready for work. Plus,since 2013,my attitude at work has not been top-notch,it has not been what people are expecting of me. Maybe it is because of the frustration with what people want to be as opposed to what I want to be. For the first time in my life,I do not feel the happy positive energy that I used to feel whenever I worked at Ruby Tuesday. Plus,there is a lot on my plate in my personal life right now. Changes will happen this year! My father made a change in his job situation,well so can I! Time to move on from working at the mall!