It's been a while since I last wrote on here and I've made up my mind about typing some story. As always, any suggestions and corrections will be very appreciated and welcomed.

I have decided to talk about my first job experience. Although I can't say it ended well, I am due to declare it was nice and fun while it lasted. So this huge food company in Spain, which owns about seven different brands of restaurants and serves over 55.000 diners everyday, called me last month after I sent them my CV and proposed a "dinamic group?" for the next day to check if I met the values and standards of the company. I have to admit I went to the interview without having looked up their official web page (I know, big mistake) and therefore I was quiet in some parts of the dinamic, which made me think they wouldn't lay their eyes on me. Surprisingly, I was selected and got a part-time job that totally fitted my necessities given that I am still a student: the next Friday I would start working as a server assistant in a restaurant in Madrid downtown!

The first days went by with nervousness, shyness and some spilt drinks over some customers' tables, but I started getting along with most of the staff and memorizing the almost one hundred tables I would have to wait in the near future. As the days came along, I felt more self confident and easy: I was given more responsabilities, I had mastered how to use the tray being able to bring a lot of drinks to different tables in a row, and I even started asking customers if everything was alright and passing their orders to my servers colleagues, thus becoming more efficient. They and most of the staff were great, always with a smile on their faces and ready to pull a joke up their sleeves, I even allowed myself to tell jokes to some customers' children. I really enjoyed working there.

Sadly, 29 days after I first entered to work at 11:55 pm, one of the managers wanted me to sit down and have a talk with him. The upper manager had told him I had not overcome the trial period, which is by law a 30-day-period, because supposedly "they wanted a master in the restaurant business", someone who were able to be as efficient as the best server, and moreover the Christmas season was right around the corner and they needed someone super fast. The truth is I was already faster than some others server assistants, and I don't understand why they picked me if they knew I had not had any experience as a waiter, but at the end the last thing you want is to argue, I accepted it and said goodbye to my ex coworkers. I still don't understand that company policy, they are very proud of getting young people into the job world with educational contracts (as they show off about on their official webpage) but they expect us to be masters in the restaurant business without having any experience in that industry. Was it that the manager who supposedly made the decission had barely seen me in my last weeks at work? Was it that I wasn't as efficient as the rest? Was it that someone didn't like me? Or was it that they're just trying to pick good publicity (and tax benefits) by giving youngsters their first job? Certainly I was told that many young men and women like me were fired before me, but I guess I'll never know what percentage all these causes really took part in the final decission.

In the one hand it's certainly too bad because I really had fun working there (and sure, the money was helpful) , but on the other hand I have been incorporated to the labour market once and for all and that will have an effect on my job interviews to-come. I guess it's been a bittersweet experience that I will never forget.

Thanks for reading.