hello friends! a relatively short one this week, because I just haven’t been finishing books! As we know, it comes and goes in waves, and I am close to finishing a few so I suspect I will still have stuff to write about this coming week. However, I do also have some very exciting news: I GOT A JOB! I accepted a job working full time in a library at a suburban high school in the Twin Cities area, and I’m honestly really excited which is not something I can say for any other job I’ve turned down (yes, even I, at the lowest points of this search, turned down jobs because the idea of doing them was too terrible and literally made me feel sick.) We can discuss how excited I am when I have to actually be awake at an early hour and at work, but it’s a step towards what I want to be doing, I’ll be making more than zero dollars, and even if I would love to be closer to my family, and I don’t know that I’ll be in this job for life (it does not pay enough for that lol,) it does mean I can actually be pickier about applications etc in the future. It just feels so good—such a relief, to work a job that pays me and aligns with my values. This might have an impact on my reading and writing, yes, but hopefully not to such a degree that it renders this process impossible! We’ll take it as we go.
october 3
october 3
october 3
hello friends! a relatively short one this week, because I just haven’t been finishing books! As we know, it comes and goes in waves, and I am close to finishing a few so I suspect I will still have stuff to write about this coming week. However, I do also have some very exciting news: I GOT A JOB! I accepted a job working full time in a library at a suburban high school in the Twin Cities area, and I’m honestly really excited which is not something I can say for any other job I’ve turned down (yes, even I, at the lowest points of this search, turned down jobs because the idea of doing them was too terrible and literally made me feel sick.) We can discuss how excited I am when I have to actually be awake at an early hour and at work, but it’s a step towards what I want to be doing, I’ll be making more than zero dollars, and even if I would love to be closer to my family, and I don’t know that I’ll be in this job for life (it does not pay enough for that lol,) it does mean I can actually be pickier about applications etc in the future. It just feels so good—such a relief, to work a job that pays me and aligns with my values. This might have an impact on my reading and writing, yes, but hopefully not to such a degree that it renders this process impossible! We’ll take it as we go.