Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Monday, June 2, 2008
I'm not a quitter!
I’ve never been one to quit things ... but I quit my admin job last week. Seeing as how up till now the only job I’ve ever officially quit was for the School of Nursing and that was after working only two days and then finding out I got into the Road Company at Taproot Theatre, quitting my job is a big deal to me. Well, I guess I can now say that I have quit two jobs, yes that’s right, I gave my two weeks notice to my office job last Tuesday. This Friday will be my last day working as an admin assistant and I officially take on my new job next Monday, although I’ve already been in training the past week. I found exactly the job that I had been hoping for, and was starting to believe didn’t exist … I now work part time for an online company that sells different products for “a healthy lifestyle.”
What makes this the perfect job you ask? For starters, I am only working 20 hours a week, about four hours a day, but making my own schedule. Because it is an online company and there is no office, all my work can be done from home, a coffee shop, at a hotel after the kids I’m babysitting have gone to bed, etc. This new schedule will allow me to work a few hours from home every morning and then attend 2-3 dance classes a day, and then come home (or go babysit or tutor) and work a few more hours in the evening. I’m really excited to be able to now completely have the freedom to take as many dance classes during the week as I can afford, on top of continuing my weekly voice lessons (which are going really great!).
To help supplement our income and to pay for my increase in classes I will continue to babysit, also I have just been hired by a company that provides one-on-one tutoring to New York public school children. This is a job similar to the babysitting in that it allows my schedule to remain flexible as I am able to coordinate my schedule with the child I am tutoring. So I now have three different jobs I will be juggling (and I’m actually considering applying for an additional babysitting agency) but for me it will be great because they are all jobs that let me determine my schedule so that I can give as much attention and time to the real reason I’m here … acting!
Everything is currently in transition as I finish up my last week at the office job and finish training for the online job. The tutoring position will begin training this summer but won’t officially start until September so I have a bit of time to get in the groove of my new routine. Mike is also in transition as last week was his first week interning at the Federal Court House in Brooklyn. So far he loves it and feels extremely lucky with the Judge he is interning for. Last week he got to observe several trails and then discuss them with the judge afterwards, something not all interns are lucky enough to do! The weather here is just starting to get really HOT and HUMID and the air conditioner we bought is proving to be well worth the cost!
What makes this the perfect job you ask? For starters, I am only working 20 hours a week, about four hours a day, but making my own schedule. Because it is an online company and there is no office, all my work can be done from home, a coffee shop, at a hotel after the kids I’m babysitting have gone to bed, etc. This new schedule will allow me to work a few hours from home every morning and then attend 2-3 dance classes a day, and then come home (or go babysit or tutor) and work a few more hours in the evening. I’m really excited to be able to now completely have the freedom to take as many dance classes during the week as I can afford, on top of continuing my weekly voice lessons (which are going really great!).
To help supplement our income and to pay for my increase in classes I will continue to babysit, also I have just been hired by a company that provides one-on-one tutoring to New York public school children. This is a job similar to the babysitting in that it allows my schedule to remain flexible as I am able to coordinate my schedule with the child I am tutoring. So I now have three different jobs I will be juggling (and I’m actually considering applying for an additional babysitting agency) but for me it will be great because they are all jobs that let me determine my schedule so that I can give as much attention and time to the real reason I’m here … acting!
Everything is currently in transition as I finish up my last week at the office job and finish training for the online job. The tutoring position will begin training this summer but won’t officially start until September so I have a bit of time to get in the groove of my new routine. Mike is also in transition as last week was his first week interning at the Federal Court House in Brooklyn. So far he loves it and feels extremely lucky with the Judge he is interning for. Last week he got to observe several trails and then discuss them with the judge afterwards, something not all interns are lucky enough to do! The weather here is just starting to get really HOT and HUMID and the air conditioner we bought is proving to be well worth the cost!
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