So I've got a job! Yes, I am going to be molding youth! I met Saturday evening with a mother and daughter and will be working starting next Monday as a Nanny (now pushed up to tomorrow!). It is a short term gig, 6 weeks total, but full time and for good pay. It will really be a great way to get myself back on my feet and buy some time while I work to see what else can pan out.
It is funny too with everything. It all comes crashing in together. I was waiting on the Nanny idea before I got too far into the other stuff, but when I didn't hear back right away I had to make an "all eggs in one basket call" and apply for the painting position. Wouldn't you know that I got offered the Nanny job and then within two days I got a call back from the painting company for an interview not but a few minutes after I got a call from an Occupy friend about some possible work doing organizing and/or historical research involving unions. It comes in waterfalls!! This last one is obviously really exciting at first glimpse, but I'll find out more on Thursday.
As for the painting, the interview ended up being canceled due to some kind of an "emergency". But they said they'd get back in touch with me. Maybe they googled me and found out I was a dirty hippie that lives in parks!! Haha!! I haven't heard back for two days now... As it is though, they want me to be using my car (which I'm about to go under on), while not paying me nearly enough to live on (nevermind pay for gas and get the car fixed up for regularly use). But this job - like most - just doesn't pay enough to sustain life. Yes, they talked to me about advancement there and such, but we all know that painting isn't really going to be the thing that I get excited about for the future. Full time painting houses for 10 or 12 bucks and hour?! To live in NYC and have a car to head upstate in emergencies? Huh!?
I think we all face this issue at times. You have to have a job to eat, to live. But then what? What if the job itself isn't enough to live and eat? If I need a car to do the job, but I need a better salary to keep the car to keep the job, what do I do? Live out of the car? Yeah, I've done that, it's not sustainable. And while many people may think that you do what you have to do to move forward in life. At what point does a society step back and look at itself and say, hey, we've got way too many people living in cars! When there are so many jobs that do no pay living wages it is time to reassess things. That is of course where I think we are of course, but just that we haven't realized on such a large scale that our lives are simply not sustainable.
So that is why I Occupy. I hope that we can change that living situation for so many people. That is also why I will become a nanny. It pays well, will be enjoyable, and in this case is short term which will allow me to keep moving forward looking for other career work (and keep occupying). I will only have till September to stay where I am. So I have to put the pressure on here. It would be great if the labor research opportunity would come through as something real and sustainable. But as with all of these things, there will always be some conflict, some compromise that I will have to make to move forward. Will it be the subject matter? The pay? The type of convictions within the organizations? Who knows... but it will be interesting all the same!! Forward we must.
It is funny too with everything. It all comes crashing in together. I was waiting on the Nanny idea before I got too far into the other stuff, but when I didn't hear back right away I had to make an "all eggs in one basket call" and apply for the painting position. Wouldn't you know that I got offered the Nanny job and then within two days I got a call back from the painting company for an interview not but a few minutes after I got a call from an Occupy friend about some possible work doing organizing and/or historical research involving unions. It comes in waterfalls!! This last one is obviously really exciting at first glimpse, but I'll find out more on Thursday.
As for the painting, the interview ended up being canceled due to some kind of an "emergency". But they said they'd get back in touch with me. Maybe they googled me and found out I was a dirty hippie that lives in parks!! Haha!! I haven't heard back for two days now... As it is though, they want me to be using my car (which I'm about to go under on), while not paying me nearly enough to live on (nevermind pay for gas and get the car fixed up for regularly use). But this job - like most - just doesn't pay enough to sustain life. Yes, they talked to me about advancement there and such, but we all know that painting isn't really going to be the thing that I get excited about for the future. Full time painting houses for 10 or 12 bucks and hour?! To live in NYC and have a car to head upstate in emergencies? Huh!?
I think we all face this issue at times. You have to have a job to eat, to live. But then what? What if the job itself isn't enough to live and eat? If I need a car to do the job, but I need a better salary to keep the car to keep the job, what do I do? Live out of the car? Yeah, I've done that, it's not sustainable. And while many people may think that you do what you have to do to move forward in life. At what point does a society step back and look at itself and say, hey, we've got way too many people living in cars! When there are so many jobs that do no pay living wages it is time to reassess things. That is of course where I think we are of course, but just that we haven't realized on such a large scale that our lives are simply not sustainable.
So that is why I Occupy. I hope that we can change that living situation for so many people. That is also why I will become a nanny. It pays well, will be enjoyable, and in this case is short term which will allow me to keep moving forward looking for other career work (and keep occupying). I will only have till September to stay where I am. So I have to put the pressure on here. It would be great if the labor research opportunity would come through as something real and sustainable. But as with all of these things, there will always be some conflict, some compromise that I will have to make to move forward. Will it be the subject matter? The pay? The type of convictions within the organizations? Who knows... but it will be interesting all the same!! Forward we must.
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