Ego time.
Yesterday I was volunteering at a Down Syndrome Walk. I was helping out with children's activities, mostly doing facepainting.
At lunch the lady who was hired to host the childrens activities, a party planner, complimented my painting and said I was really good with the kids. And offered me a job.
I am a facepainter now.
:)
Yeah, it's $12 and hour, including travel time, but they also travel in groups. Basically, she calls me when they have a party and asks if I want to go. It's under the table too. The only downside is that the party season is starting to wind down and won't pick back up until spring. Which is completely fine by me.
I'm really just extremely stoked to be approached and offered something because I displayed talent. Not because I had good grades in something unrelated or I had a charming interview, but because the work I did was good. I wasn't even working really, I was just having a good time.
It's a really really good feeling when something you love to do manifests itself into money without having to compromise anything you like about it.
Btw, I can feel the slow change to becoming more and more of a hipster.
And my brother, who is currently on a family tour (he's seriously traveling the country visiting extended family) is telling all of our cousins that I smoke a lot. Now I'm getting texts from cousins I haven't seen since I was like 14 inviting me to smoke with them. 1) I don't smoke that much. 2) My cousins must smoke A LOT because clearly we have no plans to visit each other hence no opportunity to smoke.
So now I feel my brother is setting up smoking playdates for me and my cousins. Haha
At lunch the lady who was hired to host the childrens activities, a party planner, complimented my painting and said I was really good with the kids. And offered me a job.
I am a facepainter now.
:)
Yeah, it's $12 and hour, including travel time, but they also travel in groups. Basically, she calls me when they have a party and asks if I want to go. It's under the table too. The only downside is that the party season is starting to wind down and won't pick back up until spring. Which is completely fine by me.
I'm really just extremely stoked to be approached and offered something because I displayed talent. Not because I had good grades in something unrelated or I had a charming interview, but because the work I did was good. I wasn't even working really, I was just having a good time.
It's a really really good feeling when something you love to do manifests itself into money without having to compromise anything you like about it.
Btw, I can feel the slow change to becoming more and more of a hipster.
And my brother, who is currently on a family tour (he's seriously traveling the country visiting extended family) is telling all of our cousins that I smoke a lot. Now I'm getting texts from cousins I haven't seen since I was like 14 inviting me to smoke with them. 1) I don't smoke that much. 2) My cousins must smoke A LOT because clearly we have no plans to visit each other hence no opportunity to smoke.
So now I feel my brother is setting up smoking playdates for me and my cousins. Haha