Update on new job at Autocamp

The good news:  my coworkers are nice, helpful and mostly funny and smart.  The setting is lovely, a nice meadow with grass, the whole property surrounded by redwoods, a creek whispering in the background, those Airstreams gleaming in the sun. The main clubhouse building is open and airy and a fire pit adds warmth and a nice glow.

The bad news: in the end, it is just another high-end hotel with the same high maintenance guests and the same frantic day-of problems.  Sadly, people think it's a fine place to bring their kids and it isn't really set up for kids.  Even sadder is that a lot of parents pay no attention to their offspring, even when those little monsters tykes are tossing paper cups into the lit fire pit. Things break and things fall apart, maintenance is barely one step ahead of the guests' arrival to fix those broken things. The tents get flooded in the rain, slugs and ants crawl into the tents to get out of the rain and guests do not like crawly things in their bedrooms. And on and on.

But it's a decent job, it is certainly one that I can do easily, and it's only part time. The days are busy so the time goes by quickly.  It is beautiful when it rains and water pours off the sides of the clubhouse and the redwood trees smell like heaven. When the rain stops maybe it will still be beautiful.

Nothing else much to say.

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