Time to Change Partners Again
Looks like my current (temporary) job is ending soon--they are now fully staffed with permanent employees. However, on Monday I go talk to someone in another department at the same organization who needs help. There is a hiring freeze due to the economy; the other department had a job posted, but they can't hire anyone new. As my boss's boss explained it today, if I left the organization when my current job ended, they wouldn't be able to rehire me. However, if I start in another department, it counts as a transfer, not a new hire.
Hey, look at that! I get to move my own cheese again. A former boss had a poster about that (change in the workplace) on her wall at one place I worked. Many of her staff wished that she would be the one to change workplaces.
Am thinking of taking more photography courses. I've taken continuing studies classes at MICA but lately it's all stuff I've taken, already know, or am not that interested in. I was hoping they'd have a studio lighting course in fall 08 or spring 09, but no dice. The NY Institute of Photography is distance ed--I think I want something other than learning by audiotape. I could try community college--however I would hope that I could take classes with older/returning learners and not just kids fresh out of high school. I'm at that interesting age--sick of working in an office, too young to retire, old enough to think that I'm not getting any younger and would like to do something I enjoy and get paid for it rather than put up with general workplace B.S. and other people's bureaucratic whimsy. For example, the woman (I don't know, luckily) who sends nauseatingly-syrupy emails bordering on patronizing to the whole organization about how much fun it is to work in an office where people are excited to share ideas and work as a team, and today's reminder to "be a greeter and don't be rude!" Cheerful is good, but then there are the zealots who could be buried up to their necks in poo and would look up at the sky and say "this isn't so bad, the sun is shining!" Or who would tell Socrates that the glass was half-full when they handed him the hemlock to drink. She'd be the one character in "Dante's Inferno" who'd be making smores.
You know the economy must be bad when beer buying and consumption is down.