Well. It has finally happened. I'm not talking about the fact that I am finally back on this blog. No. I am talking about the fact that I have gotten a job. Yes. Me. The girl who spent the past five months lounging around her best friend's apartment doing nothing because she didn't ever want to leave college.
In February, I looked around in the vastness of the Internet and found a job writing for an online company. That first month I made big bucks and naively thought that I would live a cushy life writing articles for restaurants and clubs. The next few months, however, saw a steep drop in my pay. I just wasn't getting enough assignments to cover the expense of driving three hundred miles each month.
I next attempted to find freelance work. I got several minor jobs and a few large ones. The pay was great, but again the work was not consistent enough to live on. In despair, I realized that I would have to find a "real" job.
Even though I have my teaching license, I had no interest in finding a job as a teacher. I had given up my writing in college in order to focus on my education degree, but now I had the writing bug and I had it bad. I didn't want a job that would take up so much time that I wouldn't be able to write. I just wanted something to pay the bills so that I could continue to eat. I like to eat. Food is yummy.
I looked for office assistant and receptionist positions. I figured that I wouldn't have to take any work home with me and would be able to work on my writing in the evenings. This did not pan out. The jobs that were real were too boring, and the others tried to steal my identity. One almost succeeded. It was terrifying.
Finally I found an ad for a receptionist position open at a local charter school. It occurred to me that this could be perfect. I would be around students, but I wouldn't have to completely give up my writing in order to focus on them. I would be a part of the education community without being exclusively bound by it. So I applied for the job. And I got an interview the next day.
This was the first interview that I had ever done. I was terrified. I had never worked outside of my house, so I had very little experience to draw on. But I was calm on the outside. I was confident. I was brilliant. And I got the job.
Even more exciting than the prospect of full time employment was the reaction that my interviewers had to my qualifications or rather over-qualifications. Because I have my teaching degree, they want me to teach Reading every day for half an hour as well as direct the choir. I am getting experience towards getting a full time teaching position later in life while still maintaining time to write and earning a living. Win win win.
Long story short I am over the moon right now, and it's time to do some serious writing. The point of starting this blog was to have a place for me to post little anecdotes, story ideas, and rants about my complete consternation with the idiots of this world. Get ready for a wild ride because the Wild Grad has got a job and is taking on the world.
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