Yipee!

I just went over my raise information/performance appraisal with my boss. I did well, and I'm getting a 3.5% raise on top of the market raise I received at the beginning of the year, so about $1.50 more than I made an hour last year. In the nearly nine (?!) years I've worked here, the pay has, with market raises and regular merit ones, gone up nearly a dollar a year. Not bad for a job that started at $9.02 an hour back when I first took it. If only it were full-time. :)