The One Thing I Want More Than Anything Right Now

And it’s not money! Well, not just money

Autumn Seave
5 min readJul 31, 2024
Photo by Brent Gorwin on Unsplash

Ok, money would make this thing happen a lot faster but what I really want is this…

I want to retire from my waitressing job for good!

It’s not that I don’t like my job. I do. Most of the time. Except when people are just beyond stupid. You know it happens. There’s always that person who lets you tell the person next to them every dipping sauce available and then when you ask them what kind of dip they want for their chicken fingers, will ask in complete seriousness, “What do you have?” Or the person who says, “You forgot my cheeseburger…” after you just unloaded 4 steaming hot plates from you burnt arms.

But most of the time, I just roll with it and move on.

I’m just tired. Like physically tired.

I’m 54 years old and the idea of doing this for another 11 years makes me want to cry. Literally, thinking about it brings tears to my eyes sometimes. I just can’t deal with that thought.

I know everyone needs to work. I’m fine with that. I just don’t want to do this for another 11 years.

I do have the option of just getting a different kind of job. It’s not like I don’t have skills. Beside the fact that you have to have…

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