My cats are making me crazy.....
...but what else is new? It's too hot for furry bodies to pile on me all the time, and yet....
SO! Most of you know/may remember that for the past four years I've been an AmeriCorps VISTA at my local fire department. Well, as of August 17th, that job was over. AmeriCorps only allows you to be a VISTA for a set number of years, and the fire department, unfortunately, only had that position for me because AC paid my stipend. So farewell, fire department!
As a consequence, I put in a huge number of applications all over the internet, for work-from-home stuff, and for local stuff where you have to sign onto a site to apply, etc. As a consequence of THAT...? Suddenly my 'work' email was being spammed at the rate of 200+ emails a day, some of them from the job places, but the BULK of them from hard-core XXX site.
What. The everloving. Fuck. It's tapering off, now i've unsubscribed and etc. to a lot of spots, but....jayzus.
Now, not having had a lot of jobs in my life, and no college degree, I was a little panicky, and took the first job offered, which was at a local senior/nursing center. OH boy. Not a job for me. It was an 'aide' job, but it was 99% kitchen work, and in the three days I was there, two people passed away, the got a positive COVID test on an employee, and about 1/3rd or so of the staff a) didn't wear their masks properly and b) weren't vaxxed. Also - my back and hips are no longer up to 8+ hours of standing on concrete.
I had an interview with the local Chamber of Commerce (a job I had thought already filled, since it was like almost a month since I'd applied), and about an hour later they called and offered me the job. YAY! So starting Monday, I'll be the new office manager for the CoC!
I'm excited but also nervous, but mostly glad to be done with job hunting.
On another note - the first week of August (the week I took my last sick/personal days so i could just relax), my car died. So instead of relaxing and having a holiday (I won't be getting a lot of holiday time anytime soon), I was stressed as fuck, looking for a car without actually having a car to drive around in.
VERY fortunately for my, i got a pre-approved loan from my bank. Very UNfortunately, it seems July or August was when used-car price went nuts because the computer chips for new cars are scarce right now, and used cars were going for more than new. *flails*
I got something reasonable at a reasonable price, but holy. Fuck.
ANYWAY - the weather continues hot as fuck, humid as fuck, and rainless, thought not drought-dry. And my icon is in celebration of seeing 'Free Guy', and the little Cris Evans cameo in it that made me squeak like a Beatles fan circa 1964. :D
Hope you all are good, happy, healthy, safe, and getting through! Thank gods for fanfic, AC, and sweptwaybayou! Originally entered at https://tabaqui.dreamwidth.org/221087.html - comment where you please!
SO! Most of you know/may remember that for the past four years I've been an AmeriCorps VISTA at my local fire department. Well, as of August 17th, that job was over. AmeriCorps only allows you to be a VISTA for a set number of years, and the fire department, unfortunately, only had that position for me because AC paid my stipend. So farewell, fire department!
As a consequence, I put in a huge number of applications all over the internet, for work-from-home stuff, and for local stuff where you have to sign onto a site to apply, etc. As a consequence of THAT...? Suddenly my 'work' email was being spammed at the rate of 200+ emails a day, some of them from the job places, but the BULK of them from hard-core XXX site.
What. The everloving. Fuck. It's tapering off, now i've unsubscribed and etc. to a lot of spots, but....jayzus.
Now, not having had a lot of jobs in my life, and no college degree, I was a little panicky, and took the first job offered, which was at a local senior/nursing center. OH boy. Not a job for me. It was an 'aide' job, but it was 99% kitchen work, and in the three days I was there, two people passed away, the got a positive COVID test on an employee, and about 1/3rd or so of the staff a) didn't wear their masks properly and b) weren't vaxxed. Also - my back and hips are no longer up to 8+ hours of standing on concrete.
I had an interview with the local Chamber of Commerce (a job I had thought already filled, since it was like almost a month since I'd applied), and about an hour later they called and offered me the job. YAY! So starting Monday, I'll be the new office manager for the CoC!
I'm excited but also nervous, but mostly glad to be done with job hunting.
On another note - the first week of August (the week I took my last sick/personal days so i could just relax), my car died. So instead of relaxing and having a holiday (I won't be getting a lot of holiday time anytime soon), I was stressed as fuck, looking for a car without actually having a car to drive around in.
VERY fortunately for my, i got a pre-approved loan from my bank. Very UNfortunately, it seems July or August was when used-car price went nuts because the computer chips for new cars are scarce right now, and used cars were going for more than new. *flails*
I got something reasonable at a reasonable price, but holy. Fuck.
ANYWAY - the weather continues hot as fuck, humid as fuck, and rainless, thought not drought-dry. And my icon is in celebration of seeing 'Free Guy', and the little Cris Evans cameo in it that made me squeak like a Beatles fan circa 1964. :D
Hope you all are good, happy, healthy, safe, and getting through! Thank gods for fanfic, AC, and sweptwaybayou! Originally entered at https://tabaqui.dreamwidth.org/221087.html - comment where you please!