Hand Me the Duster, Will Ya?
Me thinks my dedication and perpetual need to get things done quickly (Look ma! I'm the first one done) is going to do me in here at the new site. We (as in my boss and his partners) are building a new Comfort Suites hotel here in Merrillville. Its pretty swanky folks. I'm sitting at the front desk waiting for my boss to come back with more office supplies so I can finish the task I am supposed to be doing now. Instead I'm updating LJ because I can. Oh wait, guess who set up the computers and the internet connection? Yep- me. Thank god I know what the F I'm doing, yo.
So instead of sitting here like a bump on a log and running my boss over the coals with the other workers (who are fun with a captial H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S) and trying to ignore the dumb fuck who was hired to work the front desk when we open. I really wish he would just go away before I'm forced to rip his trachea out of his throat. For a man in his 40s, he sure as hell has the IQ this side of mental retardation.
Anyway.
March has always been a pretty relaxing month for me- usually thanks to spring break. But this year its become one of those months where I wait on pins and needles to hear from any number of potential employers. And a part of me is hoping for something while the other part is hoping for nothing.
More or less, I have a good gig going on. I live at home rent free, I have limited amount of bills to pay, I have my dad around to fix my car (when he isn't be so lazy about it), I work 40 hrs a week with a guaranteed pay check, and I've even been able to start saving up some money for auto repairs and maybe a short trip sometime in the future.
That being said, I interviewed for a short-term position and while I haven't heard anything yet from them, it is a possibility that they could offer me a job. The position is as a summer intepreter for the Nantucket Historical Association. They are pretty well respected and unlike Sagamore, these people know what interpretaion is and how to run a historic site. Anyway, it would be a June through October position and it would allow me to learn all sorts of new and interesting things.
My parents don't want me to accept the job if they offer me a spot.
And I can see where they are coming from. By leaving I would be giving up a rent free existance and I have no guarantee that I could get into the relatively cheap worker housing. They would try to help me find a location to live at, but it wouldn't be as cheap as the offered housing. I would have to spend money out the nose in car repairs, plus gas and overnight accomedations (both ways). Plus, after October would come the big question- now what? I am making the assumption that I would work through October simply because if I'm gonna spend the time, money, and job effort to haul my ass out there, I'm gonna set in for a while.
But the things pulling me in the direction of accepting is the fact that while the job is 5 hours less each week, I'm getting paid $4 more than I am here at home. Plus, the connections I could make (the guy I interviewed with said he hires professionals too, like professors and lawyers) amazing connections, learn shit better than I could have evef hoped for at Sagamore and of course the sheer fact that this is experience in my chosen field. Every job rejection tells me that I am underqualified (yeah cause a professional making 60K a year at the Smithsonian is gonna move to a rinky dink museum for 35K and no health benefits) and its starting to drive me mad. I can't remain too long out of the loop before I start forgetting shit.
So I'm torn and a part of me doesn't want to get the offer just so I don't have to make a decision, but. . . its Nantucket. . . on the coast. . .3 hours from Boston . . . . .
In addition to the Nantucket job, I've been applying like mad. There is one position that I REALLY want to get is this 9 month internship with Michigan State University's Art Museum. Its like $17,500 for 9 months of work and this is a general internship that would allow me to learn how to handle the day to day aspects of running a museum. I would learn everything from curatorial work to grant writing (and that's a big booster on any resume). I also applied at the Capital Building in DC and of course if you get in with the government, you get some good benefits to come along. Sure the government is fucking you in the ass, but hello? health benefits! I seriously cannot be 24 if the idea of good health insurance makes me happy.
I am such a nerd.
Regardless of what happens and where I go, I still have the hotel. God what a depressing thought.
So instead of sitting here like a bump on a log and running my boss over the coals with the other workers (who are fun with a captial H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S) and trying to ignore the dumb fuck who was hired to work the front desk when we open. I really wish he would just go away before I'm forced to rip his trachea out of his throat. For a man in his 40s, he sure as hell has the IQ this side of mental retardation.
Anyway.
March has always been a pretty relaxing month for me- usually thanks to spring break. But this year its become one of those months where I wait on pins and needles to hear from any number of potential employers. And a part of me is hoping for something while the other part is hoping for nothing.
More or less, I have a good gig going on. I live at home rent free, I have limited amount of bills to pay, I have my dad around to fix my car (when he isn't be so lazy about it), I work 40 hrs a week with a guaranteed pay check, and I've even been able to start saving up some money for auto repairs and maybe a short trip sometime in the future.
That being said, I interviewed for a short-term position and while I haven't heard anything yet from them, it is a possibility that they could offer me a job. The position is as a summer intepreter for the Nantucket Historical Association. They are pretty well respected and unlike Sagamore, these people know what interpretaion is and how to run a historic site. Anyway, it would be a June through October position and it would allow me to learn all sorts of new and interesting things.
My parents don't want me to accept the job if they offer me a spot.
And I can see where they are coming from. By leaving I would be giving up a rent free existance and I have no guarantee that I could get into the relatively cheap worker housing. They would try to help me find a location to live at, but it wouldn't be as cheap as the offered housing. I would have to spend money out the nose in car repairs, plus gas and overnight accomedations (both ways). Plus, after October would come the big question- now what? I am making the assumption that I would work through October simply because if I'm gonna spend the time, money, and job effort to haul my ass out there, I'm gonna set in for a while.
But the things pulling me in the direction of accepting is the fact that while the job is 5 hours less each week, I'm getting paid $4 more than I am here at home. Plus, the connections I could make (the guy I interviewed with said he hires professionals too, like professors and lawyers) amazing connections, learn shit better than I could have evef hoped for at Sagamore and of course the sheer fact that this is experience in my chosen field. Every job rejection tells me that I am underqualified (yeah cause a professional making 60K a year at the Smithsonian is gonna move to a rinky dink museum for 35K and no health benefits) and its starting to drive me mad. I can't remain too long out of the loop before I start forgetting shit.
So I'm torn and a part of me doesn't want to get the offer just so I don't have to make a decision, but. . . its Nantucket. . . on the coast. . .3 hours from Boston . . . . .
In addition to the Nantucket job, I've been applying like mad. There is one position that I REALLY want to get is this 9 month internship with Michigan State University's Art Museum. Its like $17,500 for 9 months of work and this is a general internship that would allow me to learn how to handle the day to day aspects of running a museum. I would learn everything from curatorial work to grant writing (and that's a big booster on any resume). I also applied at the Capital Building in DC and of course if you get in with the government, you get some good benefits to come along. Sure the government is fucking you in the ass, but hello? health benefits! I seriously cannot be 24 if the idea of good health insurance makes me happy.
I am such a nerd.
Regardless of what happens and where I go, I still have the hotel. God what a depressing thought.