Time to update!!! Because work is slow and it’s so sunny outside and I am lazy. I only have four French classes left. The only reason I look forward to the end of French class is that it will no longer interfere with my acupuncture appointments on Thursdays. After getting poked with needles, I’m supposed to spend the rest of the day relaxing and “doing nothing” — the LAST thing I am supposed to do is go sit in a folding chair for another hour. But neither schedule could budge. It’s been very frustrating.
I am trying to think positively about my back pain, think about good memories from a year and a half ago when I didn’t have it, and savor the times in my day when I am pain-free as much as possible. Try to get energy from that, think about how yes, I will someday very soon be normal again, be able to sit in a chair without pain again.
It should at least help to get me out of jury duty. I enjoyed being on a jury the first time, but I think if I had to do it again in my condition, it would be horrible. I need to get a note from my doc for this.
Today I went to the farmers market on my lunch break. Cherries are nearly out of season, so are very dark and perfect. I bought over a pound. I guess they won’t have them anymore next week. Supposedly. Then I got some vanilla gelato and sat down at the embarcadero waterfront and ate it.
Barring a miraculous 180 degree turnaround, it seems that the Giants are already destined for a weak finish. Same goes for the A’s, though they have more of a recent history of making huge turnarounds. Oh well. I am bothered by it, but not that much. It’s a fact of baseball. So now the true fans emerge, and seats at the game become a lot easier to come by, especially the ones you get on craigslist from those loyal season ticket owners. I’d like to get to an A’s game this summer.
Lately I’ve been thinking about the kind of job I will get in Chicago. I am pretty confident when it comes to job-hunting, and know how to make a resume look very good, and interview very well. Hope that’s enough. I think that my lack of a college degree will be outshined by my seven-plus years of experience working for a multi-billion-dollar company. So what would I wanna do? …
1. The obvious one: web developer (HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc)
2. The entry-level one: copy editor, or copy writer
3. The easy one: office admin (I am so damn organized)
4. The fun but no money one: freelance work at home web designing/building
5. The other entry-level one: veterinary something (clerical, assisting)
6. The desperate one: retail
I bet I could think even more outside the box than that, too.
you’re moving to chicago! wow! when?
Don’t know when yet, could be in one year, could be in two. Just need to decide our level of risk-taking basically. I want to have a baby at some point, and do not want to do that without health insurance, so one of us having that is a big deal to me. It would be easy enough to just do that here and wait, but then that’s putting off our move away from California even longer, and means moving with a baby in tow. So we’ll proooobably move first, then replicate. It’s kinda up in the air right now tho.
are you from chicago?
No I’m from Seattle, but my husband is from Michigan so his family is 5 hrs from Chicago.
Hmmm.. There’s definetly work to be had in Chicago… My office (http://www.som.com) is going to have some design openings soon, but it’s a super high-stress gig. Good money, and awesome on the resume to work for those guys. And! Amanda (The Lady, My better half, etc.) takes her poor diabetic kitty to this really rad all-cats vet, which is a really cool place.
AND! If you can swing it, Go see The Neo-Futurists perform during your visit. I voulenteered for them before I met the aforementioned Amanda, and it was awesome!!
I’m not really at a level of designing where I could get a job doing that tho. I have always worked on the back end, on front-end code.
That has been one of the #1 things about Chicago that we like — well, after its proximity to family and friends and affordable housing — that it has a nice healthy job market. Helps to have five million people I suppose.
Yeah, you’re probably better off staying away from that place- I work in their IT/Printing stuffs, so it’s bearable on my end 🙂
Seriously, Chicago is great. I lived in Florida before here- Then, I checked out the housing, and it was actually more expensive for me to stay in Florida. And the jobs! Long story short, My apartment here is cheaper than down south, and I’m making roughly twice what I did in Florida. It’s a great place!!
i agree about the neo-futurists. we have a friend in chicago who took us to see them last summer when we were there and it was great!
Technical Writer/Editor
Most people who know technical stuff can’t write coherently, and most people who can write coherently don’t know technical stuff.
Not the boocoo bucks, but you might find it fun and/or challenging.