productivity=medium
i have been applicating for jobs like it was a full time job. the thing is-i know i'm not going to find a job i *love* in the classifieds, so these jobs are just shit to get the rent paid. admin ass, data entry, phone surverys. etc. spending so much time to find a suck job.
yesterday was a low. i had an interview at an art gallery. got lost. bike tire popped (yes, i rode there on my bike) gave up.
had a phone interview with CALPIRG. sounded like a great job. low pay ($23K/yr), but sounded interesting. i've never heard so many euphemisms. basically it is door to door asking for money and sometimes working 80 hours a week.
today. interview with ESL school. i woke up early. took the bus. early. then! proceeded to miss my connecting bus. i still don't know how this happened. i took my first bus earlier than scheduled. ended up waiting an hour for another bus to come. from the other direction nonetheless (effing internet bus route planning) showed up 45 minutes late to interview. they still hired me. they just checked for a pulse, slapped some textbooks on me, and told me to show up tuesday for my first class. umm. what. so this is what i will be doing. i guess. $15/hr, 9-1 every day.
i'm not thrilled about this job. but, it's more pay than the other shit. all the kids going to the school are in their 20s. and i have the rest of my day free to find some sort of unpaid internship. plus if the animation studio finds money, they are right down the street, so i could part-time it with them for low stress. even in worst case scenario, i never find another job, i will just have to live super spartan. my life will suck, but oh well. all the free time in the world!
got my bike tire fixed today and picked up extra tubes. contemplating going hard on my bod since i have so much time. may use savings for a wetsuit. ($300)
i have been applicating for jobs like it was a full time job. the thing is-i know i'm not going to find a job i *love* in the classifieds, so these jobs are just shit to get the rent paid. admin ass, data entry, phone surverys. etc. spending so much time to find a suck job.
yesterday was a low. i had an interview at an art gallery. got lost. bike tire popped (yes, i rode there on my bike) gave up.
had a phone interview with CALPIRG. sounded like a great job. low pay ($23K/yr), but sounded interesting. i've never heard so many euphemisms. basically it is door to door asking for money and sometimes working 80 hours a week.
today. interview with ESL school. i woke up early. took the bus. early. then! proceeded to miss my connecting bus. i still don't know how this happened. i took my first bus earlier than scheduled. ended up waiting an hour for another bus to come. from the other direction nonetheless (effing internet bus route planning) showed up 45 minutes late to interview. they still hired me. they just checked for a pulse, slapped some textbooks on me, and told me to show up tuesday for my first class. umm. what. so this is what i will be doing. i guess. $15/hr, 9-1 every day.
i'm not thrilled about this job. but, it's more pay than the other shit. all the kids going to the school are in their 20s. and i have the rest of my day free to find some sort of unpaid internship. plus if the animation studio finds money, they are right down the street, so i could part-time it with them for low stress. even in worst case scenario, i never find another job, i will just have to live super spartan. my life will suck, but oh well. all the free time in the world!
got my bike tire fixed today and picked up extra tubes. contemplating going hard on my bod since i have so much time. may use savings for a wetsuit. ($300)
yikes, i was worried the CALPIRG job was door to door shit.
congrats on the job...not what you want, but you're good at it and you can almost do it in your sleep!! so it's a HUGE step up from door to door stuff!! and a respectable job while you're looking for something else! ha ha ha, i love that they totally didn't care you were late!!
so....when are you coming back to visit??? March? Pretty please with lots of yummy homemade goods from the guesthouse!!!
Posted by
Kirsten |
2:07 AM
congrats on the job. sista said it all so I won't repeat everything. having a job on the resume is better than 6 months of nothing (or so I'm told).
I was going to send an email, but since I'm posting here anyway - thanks for the book. I got it today right before I went to the gym. Started reading while I wasworking out and it looks interesting so far.
Posted by
Anonymous |
3:30 PM
Finally!
I was about to write you a super inspiring email so that you wouldn`t chug that whole bottle of Zoloft you`ve got stashed under your mattress. But since you found a job, there`s no need. Congrats.
Hint: Key to finding a job you love is to first figure out what you love to do. Making fun of me doesn`t count.
Posted by
Anonymous |
9:00 PM