Dec 25 2009
Work
Work has actually given me some extra shifts this week which is nice, given after the holidays money is tight. However I find myself still thinking I need to find somewhere that’s more reliable and where despite my health I can actually work a full 40 hour work week. It would be nice to have a steady schedule and a reliable amount of money instead of paychecks which vary wildly from $30-120 per week depending, and some place where I made enough money to be able to send the munchkin to daycare to get more socialization and all the rest of it, and I can use lunch breaks to write. That’s actually when I would get a lot of my writing done during the day was when I was working and could just sit and write with no distractions on the 15 minute breaks and the lunch breaks.
I feel discouraged, because it seems as though I never pass any employee screening tests lately, but I suppose when the employers are getting 30-200 applications for each position they can afford to be choosy, and up until I got this part time job I had a huge hole on my resume for the past few years and there seem to be so few places who actually consider raising your child to be a suitable use of your time. I explained that to one person who was interviewing me and he got this disdainful sneer, and then said, “So, why is it suddenly okay now to not raise your child and pawn him off on daycare?”
I’m actually very glad I didn’t get a call back for him. I was more than capable of doing my job; but anyone who can’t understand why your child has to be and always will be your first priority is not someone that I want to work for. As rough as my current job is they’re always accommodating if I don’t have a babysitter available, and everything else. So, I guess it’s a case of having to take the licks where they come really.
My sister-in-law was suggesting I look at banks, which is something I have done in the past, but I think they may have been put off by the two year blank space in my resume. I don’t have that now, so I’ll start again.
