My elliptical came in a few days ago, it wasn’t supposed to get here until tomorrow, so I was happy about that. I just started assembling it today and ran into trouble, so I’ll attempt it again tomorrow. It’s actually not an elliptical it’s an elliptical/stationary bike and it was only $165 with the tax, so a pretty good deal. Come to think of it, maybe that’s why I’m having trouble putting it together – it’s cheap! But I had one before and it worked really well, so I’m hoping that this time around it will do the same.
In other news, I’ve been getting ghosted and rejected in my job search left and right. I’ve halted that pursuit for the time being. I’d be lying if I said it doesn’t hurt to some extent that I’m not wanted by these companies. But the truth of the matter is I don’t really want them either. I mean, don’t get me wrong, some of them would have definitely been cool, but none of them would have been a dream. Now, I think…no, I know, my true dream is to work for myself. But I also need a paycheck, so yeah, there’s that.
By the way I know I mentioned applying to a low-paying job a few entries back, well, I didn’t do it. I just could not bring myself to do it. I mean, don’t get me wrong (my second time using that phrase), it’s not like the other jobs I’ve been applying to are so much as paying six figures, but this job was like closer to minimum-wage…well, California fast-food minimum-wage.
Sure, I’m running out of money, but I’m not at the point where I have to take just anything…yet. And that’s not to say that I think I’m too good for a minimum-wage job. I’ve actually worked several minimum-wage or damn-near-close-to-it jobs as a college grad with experience under my belt. It’s just that I really hope to avoid that this time around. I mean an honest living is an honest living, but it does something to your soul to be in that situation – at least for me. For me, it just sent me in a spiral of one low-paying job after another. Like even when the job isn’t an unskilled worker job anymore, even when I switched to a job that required a degree, I still got low-balled, yet I eagerly took those jobs, even without negotiation because it was more than what I made before.
I remember when I was in college I had a seasonal job that I worked during summer, Christmas, and occasionally spring breaks. One summer there was this girl, a black girl, that worked there who was a USC honors grad and she was working at this practically minimum-wage paying job. I was like 19 at the time and she was no older than 23, but back then, 23 seemed old to me. Anyway, I couldn’t believe she was working there after she’d already gotten her degree. Fast forward a few years and at 23 I was working at Sears and then a restaurant. And the funny thing is, I had made it a point to graduate in four years and I did…well, close enough. I graduated in December instead of June, but I was still 21, though barely. But the point is it didn’t matter, because I didn’t have a job lined up.
People be complaining about the job market now, but that turn of the century job market – that 2001, 2002 job market was insane. And what was worse, you couldn’t apply online as much as you can now. A lot of those jobs you had to send in a resume by mail or fax. You had to buy resume paper. I don’t even think they sell resume paper anymore at Kinkos. But anyway, I don’t know where I’m going with this.
Moving right along, I don’t have an update on my self-publishing journey this week, other than to say I am in the trenches. But I feel like I always say that, so like what’s new. Oh, I guess I do have a little update. I think I have a launch date. The perfect launch date, but I won’t reveal it until I have my book cover art to share.
Hmm, what else can I share? I guess that’s all for now. Today’s post is giving one of those something is better than nothing kinda days.
Hopefully, you agree.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms and Mom-figures out there!
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