"i'm a modern girl but i fold in half so easily"

[hermionesviolin]

So, having queried 21 places over the weekend (about 15 of which were secretarial type) i have an interview for a temp-to-perm position at a high-powered consulting firm.  I'm thrilled at the prospect of actually having income, though also freaking out for an assortment of reasons.  (The fact that i Just. Don't. Know. what i wanna do isn't helping any of this.  'Cause i wanna get trained to bartend, and i wanna learn how to do massage, and i want a steady income, and i rather like desk jobs, and okay i guess that answers my question of what i want to do.  I just have to manage to balance all of those things and be strong enough to insist to people that all of those are things i care about.)

Oh, and i got my $10 Amazon gift certificate from the brain-owie-inducing cog sci thingie i did. Woot.

P.S. Emma, clearly you need to find and watch this.

Comments

decisions decisions

[onwingsofeagles.livejournal.com]

I'm really not a good one to give advice, b/c I came to this job 22 years ago to take "while I figured out what I wanted to do with my life," and then I had a child and the rest is history.
BUT -- it might help to think about what you want to do -- if you want to write, but you need to pay the rent, take a decent paying desk job with health insurance that you're not terribly invested in so you have the psychic energy to write. If you want a job while you figure out whether you really want to do cultural studies, ditto. If you really want to do massage therapy, you will probably have to stick with a part time or extremely flexible job to allow you to take the classes.
Sigh. Maybe I'm not really helping :)

Re: decisions decisions

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I think part of my fear is that i'll end up doing the same job for the rest of my life 'cause it's a job and yay security and all (and i've tended to have long-term jobs). And part of my fear is just that i will get the job 'cause since i tend to have long-term jobs i get used to knowing what i'm doing and having to learn something new is kinda scary. And part of me is trying to remind myself that this is only a 2-month thing (which is scary in itself 'cause then i have to look for jobs again if i decide i don't wanna go perm) that i don't even have for sure yet and to stop freaking out so much.

I could do a full-time job and just do Saturday classes at Palmer -- though that seriously limits my options. If i got an apartment in Boston (which i should be able to do once i have an actual full-time job) i could probably manage evening classes as well.