What Do You Do? Part 2

In my last blog, I was about to break down, because after months of job hunting and not even being able to gain employment at the Dollar General, I was at wit’s end. As I said in my last post, I was about to go to work 12 hours a week at Wendy’s, and I would have been lucky to have found that.

And then my friend David sent me a message about a Craigslist posting. I can’t tell you how many Craigslist postings I have answered, as well as ones from the Labor Department, newspaper, and anywhere else. As much as I love and can keep busy doing freelance, it just isn’t consistent enough to provide any kind of steady income.

I have gotten my hopes up many times over supposed dream jobs, only to be rejected or never contacted at all. Nonetheless, I thought “what the heck?” and sent a resume and Power Point presentation of how awesome I am (no, seriously. I really did).

The position was for a webmaster/designer at a local office supply company. Okay first of all, I freaking adore office supplies. “Back to School Shopping” was always my favorite holiday growing up. I would rather have pens and pads of paper than I would jewelry or something like that. I’m also weird, I know.  And I have been designing websites for people, but to do it as an actual job? Pretty nifty, in my opinion.

I got called soon afterward, and instead of being nervous about it, I went in with the attitude that they were crazy if they didn’t hire me. That’s a weird mentality for me to adopt, but it seems to work for other people, and it really cut down on paralyzing nerves I can sometimes get.

I got hired on the spot and started the next day!  For the first time in my life I’m actually working a full-time job that’s 8-5 M-F. So, the hours are pretty sweet, the job itself is pretty rockin’, income is steady, and pay is….well, at least there’s pay. Being a smaller business there are no benefits, vacation, or overtime even though I always have to stay over, but at this point, I don’t care. I really am just so happy.

Amazingly, my other ventures have started picking up, too. I definitely stay busy between working, the American Idol blog, eBay, making hats, photo shoots, and freelance design jobs. For a long time I didn’t break up with The Ex because I wasn’t sure if I would be able to make it on my own. I cannot thank my family and friends enough who have helped me out with lodging and food and driving me back and forth until I can find a newer car.  I finally feel like life is getting back to where it should be, and in all honesty it’s a lot better than it has been in a long time.

Tomorrow’s another Social Media Alliance of Chattanooga meeting (which I now get paid to go to as part of my job! How cool is that!?). And for the first time, I will have an answer for them when people ask, “What do you do?”