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Feb. 1st, 2006 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupWell, that's settled :D Tomorrow I offically begin moonlighting as a secretary Site Aide.
Thank you all for your helpful comments, they really did give me some more perspective on the problem. I ended up calling back and asking if I could 1. Start tomorrow rather than, say, today and 2. Have at least three weekdays off starting on the seventeenth. She replied that there was no problem -- she's only hiring me until either training starts or she finds a permanent site aide, whichever comes first, and that having those days off would still give her two weeks to look for such a creature.
Now, I may yet not go down to see Mama Tickey, but either way the time off will be nice. It's all very up in the air still, and as mum pointed out she has two perfectly able-bodied sons living within half an hour of her, whereas Lucky (and by extension, of course, myself) lives three hours away. They're not very reliable, however, so we shall see. If nothing else, five days with Mama Tickey is enough material for at least half a novel, even without Aunt Lilly. :D
Anyway, starting tomorrow, I will be predictably absent from at least 4, possibly 3 o'clock central until nine pm central on weekdays. There are disadvantages, of course, such as not seeing a good portion of my family for a good deal of the time and having to learn how to work the DVR timer doodah to tape House and CSI (I may just resort to videotaping them on my dinky no-cable bedroom TV which hasn't been turned on in six months). Still, if I'm paid as much as I would have been to score tests -- and perhaps I'll be paid more, which would be nice and not totally outrageous to expect -- then that's about $250 a week I'll be pulling in, which would mean paying off the last of my Christmas credit card in the next week and being able to buy enough business-casual clothing to keep me decent when I do start on the full-time position.
We shall see, as always. If nothing else, it will be an adventure.
Thank you all for your helpful comments, they really did give me some more perspective on the problem. I ended up calling back and asking if I could 1. Start tomorrow rather than, say, today and 2. Have at least three weekdays off starting on the seventeenth. She replied that there was no problem -- she's only hiring me until either training starts or she finds a permanent site aide, whichever comes first, and that having those days off would still give her two weeks to look for such a creature.
Now, I may yet not go down to see Mama Tickey, but either way the time off will be nice. It's all very up in the air still, and as mum pointed out she has two perfectly able-bodied sons living within half an hour of her, whereas Lucky (and by extension, of course, myself) lives three hours away. They're not very reliable, however, so we shall see. If nothing else, five days with Mama Tickey is enough material for at least half a novel, even without Aunt Lilly. :D
Anyway, starting tomorrow, I will be predictably absent from at least 4, possibly 3 o'clock central until nine pm central on weekdays. There are disadvantages, of course, such as not seeing a good portion of my family for a good deal of the time and having to learn how to work the DVR timer doodah to tape House and CSI (I may just resort to videotaping them on my dinky no-cable bedroom TV which hasn't been turned on in six months). Still, if I'm paid as much as I would have been to score tests -- and perhaps I'll be paid more, which would be nice and not totally outrageous to expect -- then that's about $250 a week I'll be pulling in, which would mean paying off the last of my Christmas credit card in the next week and being able to buy enough business-casual clothing to keep me decent when I do start on the full-time position.
We shall see, as always. If nothing else, it will be an adventure.
