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i'm back!!!
i've been so so busy with end-of-disney and two weeks at home in chicago and with joe's parents in SF.
my last week at Disney, i got a call from a company that saw my resume on Craigslist. I also had a job interview with Marketwire, a company I found on CL. The marketwire interview went really well. there were proofreading tests, which i know i aced. the job would just be line-editing press releases. all day, every day. 11 am - 8 pm. so, i'd do well at it, but it'd be a liiiiiiiittle bit boring.
the other job was a startup called SocialBuy. it's owned by a twenty-something UCLA grad named Eli. it's like Woot or Groupon; a social media "group buying" site for stuff like restaurants and spas. they called me just to talk about freelance work, but they were so impressed by me and by my resume that they offered to hire me full-time on the spot. on my very last day at disney, i left for two hours to have a contract negotiation meeting thingy at Coffee Bean.
I got offered that job, and the job at Marketwire. Also, WebVisible said they'd take me back (the place where I worked for two weeks before starting at Disney). Recession? What recession?
I took the startup job. The salary is decent, and they're paying for my health insurance, even though their company doesn't offer it. Thankfully, I found a HIPAA-compliant insurance company where i can get insurance - including doctor's visits and Rx - even though i technically have a preexisting condition (ughhhh).
but SocialBuy is going to pay me an extra $186/month plus the $85 "starting fee" or whatever that is. yay! health insurance!
oh also? YAYYYYYYY FULL-TIME JOB!
today was my first day. I woke up at 7:20 and realized i had caught joe's dad's cold. sore throat, stuffy nose, cough, sneezing.
as i walked from my car to my new office (on santa monica and westwood blvd, about 7 miles from my apartment and right near ucla), i found out i also caught my mother's stomach flu. i was briskly walking over to the building when suddenly... vom. i barfed into a patch of shrubbery.
but! i powered through, and worked from 10 to 6:30 (oh yes, we start at 10. VERY civilized.) now i'm at home, hiccuping, burping, sneezing, and generally feeling like crap.
as crappy as someone can feel, that is, when they had a GREAT first day at their job. more to come...
i've been so so busy with end-of-disney and two weeks at home in chicago and with joe's parents in SF.
my last week at Disney, i got a call from a company that saw my resume on Craigslist. I also had a job interview with Marketwire, a company I found on CL. The marketwire interview went really well. there were proofreading tests, which i know i aced. the job would just be line-editing press releases. all day, every day. 11 am - 8 pm. so, i'd do well at it, but it'd be a liiiiiiiittle bit boring.
the other job was a startup called SocialBuy. it's owned by a twenty-something UCLA grad named Eli. it's like Woot or Groupon; a social media "group buying" site for stuff like restaurants and spas. they called me just to talk about freelance work, but they were so impressed by me and by my resume that they offered to hire me full-time on the spot. on my very last day at disney, i left for two hours to have a contract negotiation meeting thingy at Coffee Bean.
I got offered that job, and the job at Marketwire. Also, WebVisible said they'd take me back (the place where I worked for two weeks before starting at Disney). Recession? What recession?
I took the startup job. The salary is decent, and they're paying for my health insurance, even though their company doesn't offer it. Thankfully, I found a HIPAA-compliant insurance company where i can get insurance - including doctor's visits and Rx - even though i technically have a preexisting condition (ughhhh).
but SocialBuy is going to pay me an extra $186/month plus the $85 "starting fee" or whatever that is. yay! health insurance!
oh also? YAYYYYYYY FULL-TIME JOB!
today was my first day. I woke up at 7:20 and realized i had caught joe's dad's cold. sore throat, stuffy nose, cough, sneezing.
as i walked from my car to my new office (on santa monica and westwood blvd, about 7 miles from my apartment and right near ucla), i found out i also caught my mother's stomach flu. i was briskly walking over to the building when suddenly... vom. i barfed into a patch of shrubbery.
but! i powered through, and worked from 10 to 6:30 (oh yes, we start at 10. VERY civilized.) now i'm at home, hiccuping, burping, sneezing, and generally feeling like crap.
as crappy as someone can feel, that is, when they had a GREAT first day at their job. more to come...