zeptember

Well. I just got a second job.

My masseuse called me up on Friday and asked if I was still looking for work. I told her yes, because I wasn’t sure how this new night job is going to continue working out for me.

She said her friend she’d told me about a few months ago is serious about finding a new person again for her office, and asked if she could give her friend my number.

Number given, her friend rang me up and talked with me for a moment. We set up an interview for Monday 11am. She asked where a good place would be to hold a casual interview, since she didn’t want to do this at her office, since I’ll be replacing someone she’s firing soon.

I chose the local non-chain tea garden/coffee house.

11am today, we met at the coffee house, chatted about our current life situations and needs and wants, and then she said, “great, can you come in tomorrow then?” and laughed.

Hmm I thought, ok sure and said yes.

The job is at an optometrist office that she runs.
I’d be processing billing and insurance stuff, and with that some data entry.

It pays $4 more per hour than the night job is paying.

So now the next thing to do is talk with the night job and see if they’ll allow me to scale back my hours so that I can have at least 6 hours on a day shift for the optometrist office.

But I won’t chat with the night job until tomorrow night, because I want to see if I like the optometrist office tomorrow, first.

The optometrist office is in Oakland near highway 580, so we’ll see how I like the neighborhood. I say that because the woman who interviewed me today kept making reference to “the ‘hood” and that the other girl working in her office is “definitely of the ‘hood”, and that their clientele is made up of all kinds of people but representative of “the ‘hood”.

So we’ll see. Being right off 580 is convenient, cuz that’s the highway that I drive to get to the night job.

There’s a lesson somewhere for me that I’ve obtained not one but two jobs now in “the ‘hood” in an on-the-spot, “great, you’re hired” sort of fashion. I’ll keep my eyes and ears and mind open as to what this lesson will be.
I am of the belief that every place I’ve ever lived in has taught me a lesson of some sort, extending out to my social life and my job during the time I’ve lived in a particular home. So I’ve just moved into a new home and now there are new lessons being taught already. I got the scanning job after I’d already given notice to our old apartment that we were moving out, so that job is also tied to the life lesson(s) that will be taught to me in the new home. I just need to be Aware and pay attention and Learn.

All lessons, however pleasant or painful, are positive if I Learn something from them.