Comments | cavum_oris: why don't you just get a job?

cavum_oris

why don't you just get a job?

Oct 12, 2006 23:40

i would like more money. but i am loathe to sacrifice the things i am doing now in order to get some bilingual admin - or worse, customer service - job. maybe i should. maybe after a couple years of that, i could get sthg bilingual in my fucking feild. or not. i could just shrivel up and have money but no time or energy for art... i know id be ( Read more... )

work, angst

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crazykittylady October 13 2006, 05:29:11 UTC

You know, you could get a part-time bilingual job in customer service starting at $20/hour and work 20 hours a week (essentially, two 10 hours shifts) and make a neat $1600/month (that's $20800/year) to get you by while you get your career off the ground.

IBM is hiring.

So is Telus.

50_ft_queenie October 13 2006, 11:16:26 UTC

I still owe you an email with jobhunting info - will send it this weekend.

chatnoire October 13 2006, 14:53:40 UTC

Dude, i feel your pain.

I'd hire you in a minute, but that whole, um, magical fairy thing, yeah, she's not down here either.

That IBM or Telus work sound like it could be ok. Admin work, yes, it can suck you dry in some ways (this is my life) and yet, you may find a way to make ti work. The last one I had allowed me the time to leave and take care of things, so some places it can work.

The schedule juggling is hard. Have you thought abut running your own classes? You might be able to put together a proposal for a local arts centre as adult education or something like that (or teacher education - teachers at the high school and junior high level often complain about the dearth of contemporary art information available to them - contemporary as in now, this moment, as opposed to 1985).

Have you Read "difference and Excess in Contemporary Art" ? I picked it up last ngiht, it looks awesome. Starts off with an essay about Rachel Whiteread's House and the social implications of it, the demolition vote, etc.

crazykittylady October 13 2006, 15:00:58 UTC

Toronto star bilingual, in-bound call centre marketing (people that speak to customers about large account ads, not classified); starts at $21.50+/hour, not piecework. My brother used to work there when he was teaching at the Island flight school, it's strictly part-time because the full-timers make a lot more and get benefits.