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Well... After a 13 month lay-off, I'm reporting for a job tomorrow.
For most accounts, I'm not thrilled. It's a little over 1/3 of the pay that I've been mostly getting since 1999 (which I'm not thrilled about either, but... that's contracting), less benefits that I usually get, even (and for contracting, that's not much!), and it will last no longer than 8 weeks.
But...
At least I can point to that and say I haven't been sitting on my butt intentionally.
I was hired to a semi-supervisory position, which I can point to and finally say "See? I really have done this!" Always before I'd been put in charge of supervising people, but without the title.
There is some remote and vague relation to the previous career, in the fact that maps are involved.
The position is Public Confidence... while not a security clearance per se, at least it is one of those things being asked for a lot in my field, these days.
So... here I go!
For most accounts, I'm not thrilled. It's a little over 1/3 of the pay that I've been mostly getting since 1999 (which I'm not thrilled about either, but... that's contracting), less benefits that I usually get, even (and for contracting, that's not much!), and it will last no longer than 8 weeks.
But...
At least I can point to that and say I haven't been sitting on my butt intentionally.
I was hired to a semi-supervisory position, which I can point to and finally say "See? I really have done this!" Always before I'd been put in charge of supervising people, but without the title.
There is some remote and vague relation to the previous career, in the fact that maps are involved.
The position is Public Confidence... while not a security clearance per se, at least it is one of those things being asked for a lot in my field, these days.
So... here I go!
I have survived to 60 years...
It seems the last several years have gone very slowly.
I have felt like I was in slavery, due to my profound poverty.
I would have been homeless if not for Mom needing a driver, and, frankly, a cook.
Getting restarted, now that I finally have an income... fixed, and dismal, but an income all the same.
Changes coming as I gear up to take this art stuff seriously.
Frustrated that there's only so much I can do each month, but at least I can.
This pseudonym has been registered as a DBA (Doing Business As), and if this next year will justify it, Mother McCridhe Studio will become LLC.
Reassembling my computer & internet.
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Nothing Much Changes
Pretty much the same place as I have been the last few years.
I Joined NaNoWriMo
https://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/747700
Heh... 747700 well, that should be easy to remember... July 4th the year I graduated from high school. My score: 00
Now I gotta figure out what's my genre and what I'm going to write about. Lost a day already. Hmmmmm... well, don't expect to win this one, but it'll give me something to play with.
Puppy
You heard about that puppy that was so eager to please, it got underfoot and kept getting its tail stomped on and kicked?
Woof woof.
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22 Months... nada.
Been through my first round of trying to claim disability. After seeing what my back looked like in an x-ray, I was in shock that I can walk or stand as much as I can, which, is getting disgustingly less and less. (Remembering a day when I didn't think a thing about a 5 mile hike... now... I look down the block and debate walking that far... Not because I don't want to, but just gaging the pain I'll be in.)
Of course, having been laid off and not working in my field for almost two years, I guess I can say I'm a former drafter/designer.
And I could go back to school... I'd need a bachelor's degree just to stay at my previous status... but, frankly, I don't want to be paying off student loans with my retirement check, it will be small enough as it is!
Anybody know what flavors gun barrels come in?
Been through my first round of trying to claim disability. After seeing what my back looked like in an x-ray, I was in shock that I can walk or stand as much as I can, which, is getting disgustingly less and less. (Remembering a day when I didn't think a thing about a 5 mile hike... now... I look down the block and debate walking that far... Not because I don't want to, but just gaging the pain I'll be in.)
Of course, having been laid off and not working in my field for almost two years, I guess I can say I'm a former drafter/designer.
And I could go back to school... I'd need a bachelor's degree just to stay at my previous status... but, frankly, I don't want to be paying off student loans with my retirement check, it will be small enough as it is!
Anybody know what flavors gun barrels come in?