Thank God I haven't started in with soap operas and game shows.
Lately I've been working on my crafts (while watching Law and Order) and making wonderful things with wire, beads and hair clips. It takes hours to come up with a few things since I have the equivalency of writer's block.
sigh
I've signed up on job service websites. I cruise those to see what's out there. I giggle as I refrain from applying for a detective or something legal like a lawyer. I can't put Law and Order on my resume.
I also have been thinking about working for myself.
What could I do that would pay the bills and that I would enjoy?
I think of all those designers out there that design shoes, handbags, jewelry, hats, and other things. I design barrettes and bangles for cell phones. How do other designers get noticed? How do they design and then mass produce it? hrrmmmmmm....
So many questions....
I have a friend who is a travel writer. She travels and writes. I would love to do something like that but I don't think I am that great of a writer nor can I just pick up and leave with kids. I just live through her writings and pretend that I went with her.
So much goes through my mind as Eliot and Olivia (reruns) solve crimes.
How will I pay the bills? How will we eat?
I need to figure something out.
How do others find jobs that they enjoy? I haven't enjoyed a job since I worked at Walmart. (I know, right?) I loved working with people. I loved supervising cashiers. I loved little old ladies who couldn't find the right TV. I loved the fast paced holiday season. It didn't pay well, but I loved it.
My second favorite job of all time was working as a hostess in a local restaurant when I was a teenager. I think I made $4.50 an hour but I loved it. I loved the customers. I loved my co-workers (Hell, I even married one of them). I loved the holiday seasons. I loved the smell of ribs cooking.
I guess the theme here is that I loved the two jobs that didn't pay the greatest but where I could work with people (customers).
So, maybe I have my answer just by writing all this out.
hrrmmmmmm......
If you worked at Walmart than you will work anywhere. I don't mean that as a bad thing, I mean it as a good thing. Sometimes people get fancy shmancy jobs, and if they lose it than what?? What will everyone else think if they had to work at some non-glamorous place.
ReplyDeleteYou think people find jobs they like, and people can enjoy their jobs, but typically it is a paycheck, and hopefully they try to be good at it.
There is no yellow brick road to happiness, even though we continually get bombarded by that kind of crap.
I don't know what the job market is where you live, but cleaning jobs typically are always hiring, and probably most retail establishments. You can get a couple part time jobs, while looking and pondering the other stuff.