The most significant thing that has happened is the marriage of our oldest son in Hawaii. It was such an awesome event and having my family and friends there made it extra special. My sister and her family, her husband and my two nephews came. along with our life long friends, Jim and Colleen Wilson and her daughter and husband, Racheal and Abe Pratt. We took a week off from Amazon to fly to Hawaii for the wedding.
AMAZON.COM
Many friends and family are curious about our experience working at this company. WOW - where do I start. I stated some observations about Amazon early on in our arrival. Very strange. Something you either love or hate. Many workampers come back year after year. Why? Haven't really figured that out. Money is the biggest draw. Others say that and the friends they make and renew each year. Have a little more trouble with that last statement. The money is great but at some point your physical and mental health and welfare are more important. Short term I guess you can endure anything.
Typically Amazon requires a 40 hour work week, 4 days a week (10 hrs per day). Now this body thought that it could handle that. Oh my gosh was I wrong. I kept waiting for my body to "harden", that's what they call it. Waiting for my body to get use to this schedule and my feet to stop hurting.
Amazon assigns positions as needed by departments. Sometimes you like where your working, sometimes not. Most of the permanent staff are pretty helpful and welcome the workampers, because they know their workload will be lighten. The work is hard, tedious and usually fast paced. Amazon is concerned about numbers. They push for you to get your processing numbers up to the acceptable levels.During the peak Xmas season the work week goes to 50 hours and some days when orders are up 11 hour days. This is mandatory. While we liked the area we worked, even excelled, the people were great, the work for us was hard and left us most days feeling exhausted and like zombies. However, like others have said, "It's all about the money", and for us with the wedding and some upgrades we wanted to do on the motor home that's what it was for us. It was strange though, most workamping jobs we have had, had lots of socialization along with the work. I doubt that we will go back, or at least I am not sure I want but Art who didn't seem to dislike it as much as I did, says he might want go back.
St Louis.
We left Amazon and headed to St Louis for the holidays. It was good to be home for Xmas Eve, although bad weather kept some people away but most made it. New Year Eve, was spent with friends and a great meal.
It is possible to entertain and host a small (very) small dinner in an RV. I prepared Prime Rib on the stove, Yorkshire pudding in the microwave/convection.
January 2011 will find us leaving for Red Bay, Al to get some upgrades done on the motor home and a few maintenance items taken care and then it's off to Quartzsite, AZ for the annual gathering of thousands of RV's and meeting up with our friends. Those that own Tiffin Motor Homes and a group of Escapee RV'ers, both the Boomer's and the Boondockers. Those terms can be the subject of a whole blog posting in and of it's self.
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