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Changes afoot
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 10:34 pmYesterday was my last shift at the part-time "day job".
Yeah, I know, who quits their job in the middle of a pandemic? But it was time to go. The official reason is that my feet were no longer up to 6-7 hours of standing at a stretch, and I didn't want to keep going to bed with an ice pack on my ankle. And that's true as far as it goes. There were other reasons, but they're not anything that's going to change, so no point going into it.
There are a lot of things I'm going to miss about that job. On my last day, I got to help someone model a lunar landscape to teach four-year-olds about astronauts, which is the kind of thing that made it all worthwhile. And a new-ish regular customer introduced herself so we'd know who we were talking to, which is the kind of community involvement that I really valued there. Also, I'll miss the dogs. ;-)
But I'm looking forward to the next chapter, whatever that turns out to be. For the nonce, I'm focusing more on the business side of writing, which ghu knows could do with more attention than I typically give it. The freelance work is enough to keep the mortgage paid, and beyond that, well, we'll see what happens.
Yeah, I know, who quits their job in the middle of a pandemic? But it was time to go. The official reason is that my feet were no longer up to 6-7 hours of standing at a stretch, and I didn't want to keep going to bed with an ice pack on my ankle. And that's true as far as it goes. There were other reasons, but they're not anything that's going to change, so no point going into it.
There are a lot of things I'm going to miss about that job. On my last day, I got to help someone model a lunar landscape to teach four-year-olds about astronauts, which is the kind of thing that made it all worthwhile. And a new-ish regular customer introduced herself so we'd know who we were talking to, which is the kind of community involvement that I really valued there. Also, I'll miss the dogs. ;-)
But I'm looking forward to the next chapter, whatever that turns out to be. For the nonce, I'm focusing more on the business side of writing, which ghu knows could do with more attention than I typically give it. The freelance work is enough to keep the mortgage paid, and beyond that, well, we'll see what happens.
