now I am merely UNDERemployed rather than outright UNemployed

[edenfalling]

I can has JOB!!!

It's a part-time thing, just twenty hours a week, but it pays more per hour than I was making at the smoke shop (to say nothing of what I made at Not the IRS) and it turns out to be more receptionist than data entry. Basically I will be staffing the front desk of a sort of... medical-ish community outreach agency, about which I can't say much because of privacy regulations. The job involves answering phones (and probably placing calls), scheduling appointments, checking in appointments, managing payments and receipts, and maintaining records.

I start tomorrow afternoon.

...

I think I am a little in shock at how sudden this is. I mean, I am still catching a bus down to NJ on Friday to see Susan (sort of a "neither of us will be in Madison for your actual birthday so let's party early" visit) and pick up my parents' spare car so I can do my flash house-sitting routine over the next couple months, but I will work three days this week and then next week I'll be working four hours a day, five days a week. Each day is a little different, but I think it's a regular irregular schedule, if that makes sense? So I will be able to schedule other stuff around it.

And that reminds me that I need to apply for the Not the IRS training course so I can do actual tax work instead of just receptionist work in 2016.

I also still need another part-time job, because rent and grocery bills don't pay themselves, but hey. Progress!

(And on a semi-related note, part of my internet bill is now covered by renting out the back half of my driveway to Upstairs Neighbors E and T as long-term pickup truck storage. I cashed their August check today. *grin*)

Comments

[branchandroot]

Sweet! Job-hasing-ness! Which may well make the next step of job-getting-ness easier, the world being what it is. *thumbs up*

[heliopausa]

Terrific!! Cheers for you, and may it go brilliantly,on all fronts. :)

[edenfalling]

Yeah, being employed does have this funny way of making you look more employable... *wry*

Good luck with your own job search!

[edenfalling]

Thanks!

I'm going to schedule another five minute panic session tomorrow before heading in for my first day, so I won't look like a headlight-hypnotized deer when given training instructions. :-)

[transposable_element]

Excellent. They must have liked you in the interview. It sounds as though it's a better job than it appeared to be at first, and hooray for income!

[edenfalling]

I think it was less that they liked me so much and more that they didn't immediately dislike me and they needed to fill the position ASAP, but hey, I will take it! :-)

[heliopausa]

If the five minutes works, well - good! :)
But I'm sure you'll look calm and competent and ideal, whether or no. :)

[rthstewart]

Excellent news!!

[edenfalling]

:D

[askerian]

AWESOME. :D :D :D :D :D regular moneyyyy~ and regular getting out of the house might be nice also. XD

[edenfalling]

Yes! I mean, I manufacture excuses to get out of the house anyway -- this is the secret reason behind my daily photo-chronicle of Cascadilla Creek -- but walking to and from a JOB feels more purposeful. Plus, you know, money. :D

[akatsuki210.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the new job! I don't think I had even realized you stopped working at Not the IRS.

[edenfalling]

Thanks!

Tax preparation is seasonal work -- January through April 15, basically. Not the IRS employs some year-round staff, of course, but that doesn't apply to receptionists (except at corporate headquarters, I suppose). I have to reapply and get rehired for next year, though obviously I have a leg up since they liked me this winter/spring. :-)

[autumnia]

Congratulations on landing a new job (and one that pays better than at your previous employers)!

[edenfalling]

Thanks!

(My previous employer was a cheapskate, tbh. I mean, I still made more at the smoke shop overall, because I worked almost forty hours a week, but the pay really was not commensurate to the work we all did.)

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

Awesome!!!

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

Yay for money coming in!

[edenfalling]

*dances*

[edenfalling]

Finances will still be, um, tight, but hey, tight is better than flat broke, which was where I was headed in another month or two!

[akatsuki210.livejournal.com]

Ah, that makes sense. I think I was assuming that the firm you worked for also did financial advising throughout the year.

[edenfalling]

They do, but only at certain locations and the level of business is not high enough to require a receptionist; the tax advisers answer their own phones from May through December.