So... How'd Your Day Go?

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Originally Posted by RhythmOvPain

meaningful employment is a fallacy.

Still kickin' ass at everything I do, though.

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I used to work in a kids home, seemed quite meaningful until I came up against the rules and regulations and the other people who worked there, more concerned about their family and mortgage than the kids they were 'looking after'.
Running reception for a hospital haematology dept was okay, best deal, work for yourself, hustling is a hustle, pick something you like. I ended up spending my days in other people's gardens while they went out to work to earn the money to pay me for it :)

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So when I'm not writing my fantasy, I'm using my fantasy characters to make fun of common fiction tropes. Enjoy! :D

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hey y'all. School's out for the summer which means my volunteering for the year is at an ebb. So I've got a little time to stop by. I re-intro'd and .... stuff.

in the news at my house:

• my next paycheck will be for two days as my staffing company was acquired and the pay scheduled changed from bi-weekly to 15th/EOM and it so happens that the timing works out that way. I don't lose any money but there's a huge honkin' delay (so my pennies to the pig were not as much as otherwise).
• I joined a soon-to-be-chartered Sweet Adelines women's barbershop chorus group and we're singing the anthem at our local minor league baseball team's game on Thursday 31 May. (when I get said tiny paycheck). It's the Sugarland Skeeters vs someone.
• My youngest, the brain surgery survivor, has had 3 seizures (possibly an artifact) and may need to rethink his career options as welders can't seize. If he can go six months on this new med ...
• Dunno if I mentioned cuz this was happening as I left, younger daughter moved to Wisconsin. To adult.

Wrote a bunch the last three days, did some outlining...

And somehow I forget that one character POV in my fantasy who belongs in a faction whose name is literally the title of my book!!

Hi Annie, good to see you around. You will feel poor now, but rich when it finally arrives :) I remember similar things happening in jobs where they held a month's pay 'in hand' and I got a double lot when I left.

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Originally Posted by Olly Buckle

I used to work in a kids home, seemed quite meaningful until I came up against the rules and regulations and the other people who worked there, more concerned about their family and mortgage than the kids they were 'looking after'.
Running reception for a hospital haematology dept was okay, best deal, work for yourself, hustling is a hustle, pick something you like. I ended up spending my days in other people's gardens while they went out to work to earn the money to pay me for it :)

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I work where I volunteer, kinda.

I was teaching high school kids coding....that part was okay. What was less so was the unwillingness of the classroom teacher to learn the program. The ideal is to grow the school into self-sufficiency and to no longer require volunteers to come in and teach. If I say any more, I'll begin an epic rant.

If I could get paid a living wage to do what I volunteer to do, at schools that want to grow their programs, I'd do it all day long. Even as an employee, I help place volunteers in schools so that this happens all over the US (and part of Canada). It's why I do what I do. But as an employee, I get to see and hear all the stories, not only the positive outcomes. Overall, we do good. but double dayum on a stick, it's not easy and there's bumps on the road. And it's not the kids or the code.

A lot of reflection occurred for me today. As well as a lot of silence, thankfulness, anxiousness, annoyance, and a bit of unidentifiable regret. It’s been a day indeed.

Work drama finally boiled over and the admin department was called. Thankfully I'm one to keep my head down so I hopefully won't be caught up in the storm, but both parties are going to want me to speak on their behalf, so that should be fun.

Crippling depression.

May was still the best month of the past 5 years, though.