Blogging Meme Response

Okay, so apparently someone wants to know about my professional life and career aspirations.
(I have no notion of why... It's fairly dull, really, but I'll do what I can).


For most of the last seven years, I've worked in a retail store called Cleo (it's a chain mid-range women's office-for-the-most-part clothing that tends to be soemwhat frump-prone -- although it's got some potential. After this much time, most of my day-to-day clothing comes from there, and I think I manage to look elegant and, on occasion, even sophisticated despite where my wardrobe came from).
Then (YAY!) last December, I got out! :-D

And I really do believe that it deserves the exclamation mark. :-)

I started a four-month contract at Revenue Canada which <*gasp*> actually paid a living wage! :-D (My credit card bills have been going down ever since, and I'm very happy about that!)

Unfortunately, at the end of February, my contract was terminated (two months early) due to their not having enough work for me. (The large order of documents they were expecting got pushed back to April -- I now suspect the Evil Conservatives of trying to screw everyone out of their funding... but that kind of conspiracy theory is rooted fairly well in actual policy, so I'm not sure that it counts. ;-)

Anyway. I spent about two hours freaking out and going ohmygodohmygodohmygodwhatamIgonnadoooo??? and then I called my agency and told them what happened, and they found me new work starting the following Monday.
So I didn't actually have any interruption in payment at all. :-)

The new job (which pays somewhat less, but is still Better Than Retail by a *significant* amount) is with the HR department in Justice. The people are both awesome and wonderful, and I really enjoy working there, even with the lower pay.
I'd like to keep working there, if I can - although ideally in an Indeterminate capacity, as that would grant me stuff like Dental Insurance (I haven't been to a dentist in, like, five years. I really need to get my teeth looked after, damn it!) and super-awesome parental leave and so-on.


That said: I did just get myself into the Inderminate Pool for Health Canada - I do my SLE tomorrow(!!) - so, if I get snapped up out of that and offered a job at HC, I will totally be taking it because, like, hello. Job Security = A Good Thing. :-)



As for career aspirations: I don't really have them. I want a job that I don't hate, working with people I like, for a wage that more than pays all of our bills and allows for lots of savings, nice shoes, and a vacation or two every year.
Beyond that, as long as I'm not tacitly advocating baby-torture (or something), I don't really care all that much. :-)


Most of the stuff that I Love To Do - writing, dancing, singing - I'd be happy enough to make occasional extra cash off of them, but don't want them to be my Career. Because, if the were, I'd have to worry about whether or not I was getting enough work. And that would take away most of my enjoyment of those activities. As such, they shall remain my beloved avocations and I shall see what I can do with them money-wise as well. :-)


I have to throw on a coat and go to work, now. :-)


- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)