Benefits I get from working at Starbucks:
1. Free drinks at the store where I work
2. 30% off everything else (including at other stores)
3. One free pound of coffee per week
4. Vacation days that accumulate based on hours worked
5. Health, dental, and optical coverage for $9/week after 90 days
6. 401K and stock options after a year
7. An employee assistance hotline that can hook me up with a psychologist, lawyer, etc. and pay for some of the expenses
8. A fund to help employees in time of need, such as being behind on rent
Plus as part of my training I have to taste test all the varieties of coffee and tea. Which is fabulous.
I decided to get the ball rolling on this whole making music thing and find myself a voice teacher. Some of the ones I've found have ridiculous prices (such as $46 for HALF AN HOUR) but I found some that were pretty reasonable and decided to meet with them. The first lesson was at noon at the teacher's house in Astoria, resulting in my first and probably last trip to Queens. Queens feels like a dirty suburb compared to Manhattan, and while the teacher was cute, knowledgeable and helpful, something about her rubbed me the wrong way.
The second lesson was at a rehearsal space near Times Square. Pedestrian traffic in this area is absolutely awful. Because it was Saturday, it was almost entirely populated by tourists who decided to make fools of themselves. The pointing and picture-taking is to be expected, but they act like cattle. At one point there was some traffic backed up by a crosswalk, and though we didn't have a "Walk" sign, people just kept running across the road because they saw other people do it, and then got angry with the backed cars for trying to get out of the intersections. I wanted to punch them.
Anyway I got along with the second teacher better but I'm not sure she was helpful. I have several other possibilities but this one is probably the cheapest so I'm not sure what I'll end up doing.
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