hired!

So...I got tha job i applied for. hurray? It's weird. I'm just not as excited as I thought I would be. Probably because I just saw an ad for postal workers that pay twice what I'm going to get. I was actually planning on applying for that job. But maybe its for the best. maybe it's not a good idea for a photographer to be used to having money:) So I'll be working in the registrar's office. It's weird...being on salary. it means no matter how much work I do I will never get any more. course it also means how little work I do.... Plus it only pays once a month. so I'm not getting paid again until Oct. 1. blech. Mom says I should try postal anyway. see if they got any part time evening jobs. I think my husband should apply too. It's just hard because last fall I brought home $1000 every two weeks. now I'll be bringing home only a litle more than that per month. course...I was working my butt off for that paycheck and got no where near that for several months out of the year.
We'll see. My family thinks I will really like this job. I hope I will. I should feel blessed. I mean...how many people applied for this job and didn' get it. They wanted me. I went through two interviews...and they wanted me:) Cool huh? Guess I should brush up on all those computer programs I said I could use.

any pray-ers out there?

so...I let Lifetouch sucker me into another week which ended this past Friday. hoo-rah. I came back monday and dropped off my key and took my award plaque off the wall of the front lobby. My boss is still trying to talk me into letting her put me on the schedule. Nothing doing. My big boss is asking all kinds of questions trying to see if I have plans to come back or not. Seriously...why don't people just ask straight out. So I can give them a flimsy non-committal answer?:)

So...I applied for a job at the local University at the registrar's office. (sigh)..so not lifetouch. It's an 8-5. state job so good benifits and all that. I had an interview last week and low and behold they called me yesterday to request a second interview. Which I have just come from. Last time it was just the Registrar Directer...today it was with her and the assistant directors. Who likes to be interviewed by three people at the same time? anyone... no hands? But..I still think it went well. I mean...they laughed..that's a good sign right? Of course she had to ask my what my goals were. and I gave...a flimsy non-committal answer. I mean who want's to say "To work here for one year to earn enough money to blow this popsicle stand and move on with my life." no no no. But there's still a good chance I may get this job and I so would rather work there than at Budget again. So if there are any pray-ers out there...well...you know what to do:)

Photographer for hire

I almost can't believe it, but I gave my notice at work Thursday. Next Saturday is my last day at Lifetouch. I was out of town when I did it. I called my boss , so there's a small chance that Monday he might talk me into staying.
I'm kind of dealing with mixed emotions here. I'm happy to leave behind he exhaustion and working so hard for less money than I think it's worth. but I'm scared out of my mind. I have no job. Nothing lined up, nothing I'm looking into. I'll just be unemployed. I should perhaps stick it out until I find something else, but the idea of having to work there for another fall season makes me wants to smash my foot with a hammer. I'm mentally and physically tired of traveling around so much and working so hard on my feet. I don't want 10 to 12 hours a day, six days a week. I'm starting to not care about the pictures I take, and I don't want to be turned off of photography or take crappy pictures just because I'm grumpy at work.
So I quit. I'm so scared. I don't really know what should do now. I want to work, but I'm afraid of getting a job that I hate even more than the one I have now. I want a few months of happy before i get out of this town.
My dad thinks I may have made a mistake. Mom thinks I did the right thing. I need a little time to decide for sure. who knows...maybe I just need a month or two break. Or maybe this lifetouch can just kiss my butt:)