After ten months of job nirvana being just two months away, things have started to pick up. I picked up a mostly full time tutoring gig, and it’s been fun playing youth director again, if only with three kids at a time.
More to the point, I had two phone interview this week for jobs I would actually like to have long term. Next week there’s a formal interview for another. Huge sigh of relief. I’m probably jinxing it all by writing this post, but meh.
Freelancing sucks. I hate selling myself. I count my chickens before they hatch, as well as putting all my eggs in one basket. Not good habits for a freelancer.
But soon there will be milk and honey, and fruit baskets, and little fuzzy mints next to the dish of peanuts you scoop out with a spoon, and other things of a celebratory nature. Like free beer. I can feel it. Especially the beer.
Pray the blog gods grant me not-wore-outness. I’m a tired boy.
Selling oneself does suck. Jinxing only means that you owe someone a coke. Concentrate on the free beer. All the same, bonne chance (so to speak), or viel gluck!
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