Another Day, Another Dollar
Feb. 21st, 2017 08:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse...Or $11.50/hour as the case may be.
I'm not really sure what possessed me to agree to EVERY Tuesday and Wednesday at the library for the entire month of February. It's not that I mind putting in the hours themselves, but routine of it... Okay, I realize that most people have to go to the same job every day, five days a week. I used to do the same thing. I don't know how you do it, okay? Honestly, don't know how I used to do it. Maybe it bothered me less when I knew that was just what it was. I think what's starting to bug to me about this all this regularity lately is that one of the things I've really come to enjoy about my library job is that I go different places at different days and times.
I don't actually like consistency or regular hours.
If I'm honest, I don't think I ever did. If I could have found a career that allowed me to keep odd hours, I probably would have done well at it. I liked university life because it was different every semester--so maybe I should have been a college professor. But, I think one of the reasons that I used to hop from job to job was because I'd just get to a point subconsciously where I'd be like, "Yeah, okay, I've done this one thing enough now. Time to move on!"
Though, I did find several that I lasted years at, like the Immigration History Research Center and the History Center. (Of course, by that time, I was also writing novels on the job.)
Hmmmm, so maybe I'm good at staying at jobs I don't really work at?
Oh well, my proclivities have made for an interesting resume. Too bad I never developed any really useful skills. I can answer the phone like nobody's business, though.
I'm not really sure what possessed me to agree to EVERY Tuesday and Wednesday at the library for the entire month of February. It's not that I mind putting in the hours themselves, but routine of it... Okay, I realize that most people have to go to the same job every day, five days a week. I used to do the same thing. I don't know how you do it, okay? Honestly, don't know how I used to do it. Maybe it bothered me less when I knew that was just what it was. I think what's starting to bug to me about this all this regularity lately is that one of the things I've really come to enjoy about my library job is that I go different places at different days and times.
I don't actually like consistency or regular hours.
If I'm honest, I don't think I ever did. If I could have found a career that allowed me to keep odd hours, I probably would have done well at it. I liked university life because it was different every semester--so maybe I should have been a college professor. But, I think one of the reasons that I used to hop from job to job was because I'd just get to a point subconsciously where I'd be like, "Yeah, okay, I've done this one thing enough now. Time to move on!"
Though, I did find several that I lasted years at, like the Immigration History Research Center and the History Center. (Of course, by that time, I was also writing novels on the job.)
Hmmmm, so maybe I'm good at staying at jobs I don't really work at?
Oh well, my proclivities have made for an interesting resume. Too bad I never developed any really useful skills. I can answer the phone like nobody's business, though.