Best high risk job
Being bored to tears the past year I took a job as a 7-11 coffee boy. 4am to 11am, 6 days a week. I get coughed on daily. I believe I contracted Covid 19 back in October from someone heading over to Wuhei from Dulles that day. I had all the symptoms, 101 fever, feeling like I was drowning, etc..A doctor I decided to see after work when my personally owned gauge said my O2 saturation had fallen to 87 agreed with me I had something, but we had no idea what it was. A chest X ray just showed the scarring previously known of when the left lung upper lobe was burned by sulfuric acid inhalation back in 2016, and some light congestion down in the lower lobes. But clearly with just a little exercise in the doctor's office something was happening as myt blood O2 quickly dropped to 85 and I had to rest. An EKG showed no heart abnormality ongoing. With hindsight I wish we had collected blood samples and done a nasal swab.
Instead it was decided I must have COPD. When I disputed that I was checked for Alzheimers as maybe I had forgotten an earlier diagnosis. Sadly I was able to draw a clock and remember the test words. So much for the Alzheimer condition. Still mostly believing I had COPD the Urgent Care doctor gave me an anti viral, an anti-biotic prescription and a nostril spray used by those with Asthma and sent me one my way with instructions to rest at home and go to the ER if my blood O2 dropped or I felt worse. With a few days of rest I began to feel better and returned to work.
A few months later the news of China's problems broke. Something about eating raw bats. Talk about strange foods. Then still later the accusation it cam from the military games. To that I say hmm, as my customers for morning coffee I knew some who went to that. Positioned to the West of DC and Dulles my 7-11 gets a lot of morning commuter traffic.
I provide first coffee to a lot of cutie pies. It is amazing how many drop dead gorgeous females work in the DC region and stop off for coffee on the way to work. Some DC area magnates of note too. Of course I also chat with little people. Store clerks, delivery persons, television reporters, police and fire persons, hospital workers, doctors, nurses, even a few hundred illegals going to construction jobs. I am on a first name basis with many. Some disappear for a few weeks and when they come back they tell me they were traveling, or they were home sick with a flu, or their shift changed, whatever. I remember what they liked to drink and ensure it is there. I provide an ear for them to rage about their coworkers, the Democrats, Trump, their cheating spouse, business competition, the evils of gun control, the importance of gun control, whatever they wish.
Several women have provided contact information and we have done outside activities together. Meals, hikes, dancing, whatever. Good times with no strings.
If you are an aging hunk with multiple incoming revenue streams and mature enough to recognize when enough money is enough, working part time at 7-11 or a similar store is great. Whichever direction your s*xual tastes run, trust me, you will meet someone who fits them to a T. Your skill at the diaclectic will serve you well. You will learn things too. If your coffee urns are full go stand and talk with them while they smoke their morning cigarette outside. I knew of the 2nd whistle blower at least 2 days before the media did, LoL. I hear stock tips (but don't act on them, like I said, mature enough to know when enough is enough). As stated above a lot of my essential customers sneeze and cough these days, but that is pretty common. Convenience stores would love to maintain distance, but there is no way of doing that. Sometimes we have 30 or 40 people waiting in line at the cashier. AC systems like Covid19 almost as much as they like Legionnaires disease. If we batch them up at the door waiting for the store to empty, then we create a crowd, so that is no answer.
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My franchise owner is worried. There is no one to take it (the store) over if the owner gets sick and it will shut down if that happens. But the nature of the business and the difficulty in hiring a new person at 9 an hour in competition with a govt weekly handout of 600 per week (28 an hour) for those who stay home ensures the owner has to be there 12 hours a day, 7 days a week at least.
I am blessed that as long as I have salt and gasoline I don't really need civilization. I bought my property as a fully self sufficient Y2K retreat and for a simple plague it is just as good. Deer, turkey, edible plants, safe water supply, generators, solar panels, etc. One or two of my female customers have been here and over an apertif on the deck I can see some gears turning as they think, hmmm. Then the next day they go to work and back to their apartments, but I have a suspicion who will be tapping at my door if it gets bad.
So HELLO ken
Good seeing you again, do take care